HP today announced the launch of HP Upline, an online back-up and data storage service open to individuals, families and small businesses.
ehomeupgrade.com has full details of the service.
HP Upline users have access to a variety of tools, including:
- File sharing and remote access – share files of any size by emailing a password protected and time-limited link rather than an attachment.
- Remote access – enjoy greater productivity on the go with the ability to open, edit, share and publish files from any Internet-connected PC using a secured log-in and password.
- File publishing – publicly share data by easily generating a URL to publish content to a website or blog; automatically refresh files published to multiple locations to keep public data current.
- Local archiving – create archive copies of files that can be saved to a CD, DVD, NAS, USB drive or a second partition on a hard drive.
- Data migration – easily migrate files to a new PC.
- Multi-user dashboard – easily set up, manage and track the usage of employee accounts within a small business.
Will be interesting to see if this pops up in the future as an additional/future feature of the HP MediaSmart Server - no word on this from HP at the moment, but I’d use the word “synergistic” at this point 
Why Microsoft haven’t offered an unlimited version of Windows Live SkyDrive to Home Server users is, I guess, between them and their silos.
What do you think? Would you trust HP with your data?
More Info: HP Upline
April 8th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I would be interested in this, but agian for the American market…
Any news of a simialr service availibe for the uk market?
Adrian
April 9th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Of course once you entrust your data to a service provider it’s subject to the DMCA… and can be accessed via a subpoena. If it’s in your possession a warrant is needed - a lot harder to obtain. Let’s say you’ve got your quicken files on there and your ex wants a peek at your finances… a lot easier to get if you’re backing up to one of these services…
April 9th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Well, it would be nice if it actually installed on WHS, but it doesnt (NT, 2000 or XP only, apparently).
I’ve mailed HP about WHS installs and ill post here if/when I get a response.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Well, some modification of the MSI later, and its installed and it works.
No response from HP yet, but it looks pretty WHS-console-like.
(For anyone else who wants to try it, and knows what they are doing, use Orca on the MSI it downloads and change the LaunchCondition entry, then it should install OK. If that doesnt make sense, I cant help you!)
April 9th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I’m sure this would work similarly to the Mozy.com service I use now. Everything is encrypted before being sent to the Mozy servers, so even with a DMCA, they’d have to break 192 bit (or whatever Mozy uses) encryption to first access whatever I have uploaded. I’m currently not using Mozy to backup my Home Server because they Home Server is basically acting as my backup of the computers. But if I could get a personal account for $5/month ($60/year) and backup the terabyte+ on my home server to HP with encryption, I’d jump at that opportunity. It never hurts to have your data in too many places.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:33 am
@Kelduum
What MSI??? It downloads as a exe, can’t use orca
April 16th, 2008 at 6:05 am
The initial download is an exe, which then makes sure you have the relevent requirements installed (downloads them if needed) and then downloads and installs the Upline app itself, as an MSI.
April 19th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
HP Upline has crashed, they suspended the service without warning and revoked acess to certain countries and regions they could not support. Launched without being scalable I think its unlikely they will ever be trusted to look after your data. Better to find another vendor who knows what they are actually doing. HP just make boxes and should stay with that