About Backupify
"It gives me that warm fuzzy feeling," says John Daly, one of Backupify's customers. That's because Daly counts on Backupify to save all of his online profiles, inboxes and photo albums -- just in case the originals are ever corrupted, stolen, or simply disappear.
Backupify is the leading backup provider for cloud-based data, offering an all-in-one archiving, search and restore solution for the most popular online services including Gmail, Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn and more.
Why would an individual or business need a backup service for data that's already in the cloud? For starters, one-third of all data loss is caused by user error. And then sometimes services just fail. "You guys totally saved me months of appointments after Google Calendar decided to die on me," tweeted customer Jae Yang. "Thank you, thank you."
Founded in 2008, the startup already safeguards 200 terabytes of data including 1 billion emails, 250 million documents, 41 million images and 78 million tweets for over 175,000 customers, including MOMA and NASA.
"We're not just building a company," says Founder and CEO Rob May, "we're defining a new industry. The messages that we create will be the messages that people use to talk about cloud-to-cloud backup for the next 10 - 20 years."
The team faces steep technical challenges. They deal with massive amounts of data and integrate with over 20 APIs using Ruby on Rails and one of the largest Cassandra clusters in production. "We try to hire smart people," says May. "We bring them in and let them learn and grow."
