Carbonite Named Best Windows Backup Tool by Lifehacker

Boston, MA (Gawkwire.com) Carbonite, Inc., the leading provider of online backup services to consumers and small businesses, continues to receive positive accolades from distinguished technology reviewers for its Online PCBackup™ product. Recently, three additional reviews have named Carbonite as their backup service of choice.

Lifehacker, the award-winning daily blog from Gawker Media that features tips, shortcuts, and downloads to help users work and live smarter and more efficiently, named Carbonite as the "Best Windows Online Backup Tool." The distinction was part of Lifehacker's "Best of the Hive Five Winners," where the site answers the most commonly asked questions from readers. In addition, Lifehacker site visitors twice have voted Carbonite as the best option to for computer backups.

"For $50 a year, Carbonite provides unlimited online backup and is another set-it-and-forget-it solution which offers off-site backup to remote servers" according to Lifehacker.com. See more at http://lifehacker.com/5052582/best-of-the-best-the-hive-five-winners.

PC Pro, the United Kingdom's leading PC monthly magazine, named Carbonite as its Labs Winner for online backup. The review noted, "Carbonite remains our online backup service of choice." See more at http://www.pcpro.co.uk/labs/224718/carbonite-online-backup.html

NextAdvisor, an independent source for comparing the most valuable new Internet services formerly known as ConsumerCompare.org, honored Carbonite as the Editor's Choice for Online Backup with a five out of five rating.

"Carbonite is an excellent service that should really appeal to the home user that is looking for an online backup service that they can configure once and forget about. It is the best pure online backup service we have reviewed for PC users because it requires very little, if any, ongoing maintenance. We strongly recommend the Carbonite online backup service," according to NextAdvisor. Read more at http://www.nextadvisor.com/online_backup_services/compare.php.

"Consumers look to see what others say about products before they purchase, and we're pleased to see continued positive reviews of Carbonite Online Backup," said David Friend, Carbonite's CEO. "We continue to find ways to make Carbonite even simpler, and I'm glad that these influential editors recognize the importance of simplicity, reliability, and elegance of design."