Symform: A Crazy Online Backup Scheme That Works

Symform's service architecture isn't as crazy as it sounds. The company gets around the obvious concerns about security and availability by breaking data up into chunks, encrypting it and saving it at multiple locations.

"I can think of a lot of words to describe small-business data protection -- "painful" and "expensive," to name two. But "cool" and "sexy?" Generally not.

Those last terms apply, however, to Symform's distributed peer-to-peer online backup architecture. This wildly innnovative approach has the potential to reduce the pain of small-business backup, provided it can win enough hearts and minds to stand the test of time."