Dolly Drive brings the Time Machine cloud closer to European customers

Everyone's favorite sheep-shaped online backup point, Dolly Drive, has opened a data center in Rome, Italy to give European Mac users faster Time Machine backups to the cloud.

The new facility is part of a planned grid of data centers for the relatively new (less than a year old) and fast-growing backup company, which uses the built-in Time Machine capabilities of Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 to perform remote cloud backups. It's expected that the new data center will speed up initial and incremental backups for European users. Those current Dolly Drive customers will be notified by the company soon to have their data migrated to the military grade data storage facility.

For those who aren't familiar with Dolly Drive, the company debuted at Macworld Expo 2011 and was a huge hit with those in attendance. Subscriptions are available starting at $5 per month for 50 GB of storage, climbing to $55 monthly for a whopping 2 TB of backups in the cloud. The Dolly Drive app can also be used to create a bootable clone on a local external disk drive.

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Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/8/prweb8721983.htm

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Dolly Drive has opened a data center in Rome, Italy to give European Mac users faster Time Machine backups to the cloud

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Alexander Drechsel

Great service. Too bad it still isn't Lion-compatible. Bummer!

August 19 2011 at 3:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

adamutt

Dolly Drive's press release says the facility in Italy is a Military Grade facility so that means its higher than SAS-70, very safe and secure. Like they say--All Roads lead to Rome

August 17 2011 at 5:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bmxholmes

You can look at it one of two ways, with onsite storage you can lose your data the same way you would lose it on the computer. I got a buddy who's external drive got trashed by his new puppy, he used it as a chew toy. But if you want to completely secure the data then offsite is way better. It's backed up in a professional grade facility, so I guess it depends on your way of thinking. $55/month for 2TB of data for offsite backup doesn't seem like a lot to me.

August 17 2011 at 11:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wintergreen

Wait, how much is a 2 TB time capsule? I'm sure it's a good deal less than $55 /month

August 17 2011 at 6:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Olden

Italy? They chose to put it in Italy!? My Italian friends describe their own country as a Third World country.

What are they thinking? You can´t trust the Italian "government" with your data regardless of EU law. I certainly will not..

Also Rome? Could they not have tried somewhere in Northern Italy?

August 16 2011 at 2:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Boris

Good news, the service looks neat.
A shame though they took the chance of changing 30% more to European customers!!! (their price list is using a $1 = €1 converstion rate)

August 16 2011 at 12:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Blai

Well, they follow the 1$ = 1€ rate conversion, but 250Gb per 10€ aren't that expensive

August 16 2011 at 12:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply