According to a new report released, online data backup revenue will be increased more than 500% in the next 4-5 years. Revenue related to consumer use of online backup/storage sites will grow from almost $75 million in 2009 to more than $372 million in 2015, at a CAGR of 27.89%.
“Many companies will provide free access to their web-based applications to consumers in the hope that they’ll be sufficiently impressed to bring their enthusiasm for these applications to the businesses for which they work. Commercial pricing is then based on the number of users and the amount of storage used.”
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In the recent years the high bandwidth penetration has been increasing, hardware cost and bandwidth cost has been declining. This has been putting pressure on the top and bottom line of ISPs and hosting companies. Have you, as Internet Service Provider (ISP) or hosting provider, ever thought of how you can benefit from these trends?
As the online backup market is growing rapidly, this should offer you a new revenue stream from your existing customers and infrastructure. iScripts has developed the iScripts Backuper platform with hosting companies, ISPs and resellers in mind. We have developed software platform as a scalable, private labeled solution to offer as a standalone service or along with existing services. Web hosting is an ideal candidate to expand to data backup business.
ISPs and hosting companies can generate additional revenue streams (increase ARPU) by adopting new services, like an online backup service. The demand for securing critical data increases over time. With our technology you can help your customers. Therefore our product is a valued addition to your existing services.
Private branded solution with your name, your logo and your server
We recognize that you want to give their customers a transparent experience. Therefore, we can provide partners with a branded software solution. To achieve an ultimate branded solution that is part of your total data protection and disaster recovery solution, iScripts Backuper allows you to brand both client software (your own name, logo and contact details) and user management panel. Most of all, the entire backup is stored on your servers in your datacenter. It can even share it with your hosting servers.
iScripts has been offering online data backup for consumers over two years under the brand Backup2Net. We have decided to enhance our current solution based on all the customer feedback and experience, and make it into a private label service iScripts customers can offer. So if you ever wanted to start a online data backup service similar to the likes of carbonite, mozy, xdrive etc.. for individuals and small businesses here is your chance.
New product is tentatively named iScripts Backuper. You will receive a white labeled or private labeled client application (its the desktop application for your clients to manage and schedule backups). You will also receive the server software for billing, account management, backup management etc.. Off the shelf, you can start it as a standalone online data backup service. If you have a another business ( say web site hosting or large virtual community) and you want to offer it as a addon service to increase your revenue, there might be some customization required. We will do the customization for you.
We are still working out the details of the new product offering and licensing. We will have more info in the coming weeks. We plan to have the new product solution introduced in the next 2-3 weeks. New versions of client application and server software are in the last stage of beta testing. Our current plan is to offer the white labeled client software for free and can provide unlimited users. If you need private label version, there would be a small additional cost. The server application would be on a monthly license per server, at present it is set at $99.95 per month for the first server. As the software is fairly complex we would install it and configure it for you. naturally this would require you to have a dedicated server or a virtual private server at the least. So the data would be backed up to your server where you choose. So effectively you can start a data backup service for no startup cost and close to $200 per month ( assuming dedicated server for $100 per month)
All of our current products are released as open source ( “source available” for you obsessing about the definition of Opensource). As we are battling the piracy of our proprietary software, this one might be encrypted. This is not the road we had in mind, but looks like it is the one making more and more sense. Please contact us at (312)423-6728 or sales(at)iscripts.com with any questions, comments or feedback about the new product.
We have working demo of the online data backup platform ( both server side and desktop client) is available at iScripts Backuper
Aji Abraham
