Released on: April 22, 2008, 9:06 am

Press Release Author: MemoPal

Industry: Internet & Online

Press Release Summary: The new European startup aims at technologically advanced
services and extreme efficiency

Press Release Body: Memopal (www.memopal.com) is a software that automatically and
continuously backs up your files on a remote server through a secure internet
connection (128 bit encryption), protecting all your files against defects,
malfunctions, theft and even human error.

Memopal offers 250 Gigabytes of scalable space for archiving your files and many
other services at a price of just 99$ (69 Euros) per year.

Memopal was created in 2007 by a group of Italian computer engineers and businessmen
thanks to a \"seed investment\" of 1 million dollars by venture capitalists and
European managers.

Today, Memopal is growing at a rate of over 1000 new users a day thanks to the
product's hi-tech innovation and the team's work to provide consumers and
corporations with exposure to the advantages of this kind of backup: Recently,
Memopal's Managing Director Marco Trombetti, spoke about data security and digital
information at an OMAT conference with IBM, Poste Italiane, Adobe, Kofax and Iron
Mountain representatives.

A European startup with an Italian heart, Memopal's mission is to spread knowledge
about online backup - the most efficient way to protect and share company documents.

The service is fully automatic: after deciding what you want to save, Memopal
launches when you turn on your computer. With 280 GB of scalable space available,
you can even choose whether you want to just save certain folders or protect your
entire PC.

The user can independently restore any lost or damaged file, if it was protected
with Memopal. In fact, the system traces all the changes made to a file for a
virtually indefinite period of time (file versioning). This means that if you need
to restore a document that was overwritten accidentally, simply go back and open the
previous versions, which are all available. Memopal does not delete saved files
unless the user deletes them.

Memopal was developed with multiuser compression technologies for files. Since every
user's computer contains some files or file parts that are identical or similar,
(like operating system components): why save similar file or file parts each and
every time? Memopal only backs up the identical parts of files once and then it
links them to different users over and over again.

Memopal Global File System (MGFS) has a checksum-based structure and its cross-file
compression algorithm is based on specialized vocabulary. It is not only offered at
a low price per Gigabyte (about .42$ per year), it also makes transferring faster
and safer.

Memopal works in Real Time: whenever you save a file it is backed up online making
it available immediately. And that is not all: the MGFS (Memopal Global File System)
storage technology used by Memopal contains an advanced semantic search engine for
files and a state of the art Content Collaboration System.

Memopal has geographic RAID 5 technology, which provides triple-copy storage in
three different continents so that files are even protected against natural
disasters.

Memopal is based on a Scalable On-Demand system: the space available can be
increased at any time and Memopal doesn't slow your system down. Software monitors
how many system resources are in use and adjusts to user needs. In the corporate
version, Memopal contains a component that balances all of the company's Internet
resources, giving priority to main Internet services (web navigation, e-mail and
FTP).

One of the most exciting functions is "One-Click Sharing". This system lets you
share files measuring multiple Gigabytes with friends and co-workers. Just
right-click the file you want to share and your friends will receive an e-mail with
a link to the document.

Over the past 10 years, digital content production has grown exponentially
throughout the world, confirming the UGC - User Generated Content generation and the
trend launched in the mid 90s. Studies indicate that growth will continue and the
amount of digital information will grow to billions of Gigabytes: 5 Exabytes
(billions of billions of bytes) were created in 2002, 161 Exabytes in 2006 and by
2010 that number is expected to reach 988 exabytes (source: University of
California, Berkeley).
The challenge of the century is to succeed in managing and preserving all this
information.

Online backup is the answer, thanks to increasingly lower costs for connectivity and
storage hardware and thanks to extremely easy-to-use and affordable services.

For more information visit www.memopal.com


Lucia Bracci
Press office manager
Phone: +39 06 90254250
Mobile: +39 349 5565037
Email: press (at) memopal dot com

Davide De Guz
Marketing and communications director
Phone: +39 06 90254255
Mobile: +39 338 8691424
Email: davide.deguz (at) memopal dot com

Web Site: http://www.memopal.com/en?ref=PR_FP

Contact Details: MemoPal
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00144 Roma (RM)
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