- Jan 24, 2011
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AVG has formally launched its cloud-storage backup offering, dubbed LiveKive, that the company says will be truly unlimited in capacity.
AVG is pitching LiveKive as a replacement to Mozy, which ditched its unlimited storage plans this past January. Still, there's a catch: the LiveKive terms of service claim that users will be required to pay extra if they exceed the capacity usage of 95 percent of the other users, said Stephen Simpson, AVG's global head of consumer products.
AVG's LiveKive also offers incremental backup and sharing options. The service was launched in beta in February.
AVG is also offering a generous chunk of cloud storage for free: 5 Gbytes, with no limits, Simpson said. A 25-Gbyte option will cost $49.99 per year, and the unlimited plan will cost $79.99 per year, he said. The program is being launched in Canada, Ireland, and the U.K., where the plans will cost £34.99 and £54.99, respectively.
There are no limits on the amount of bandwidth that a user can consume per month, Simpson said. What the "95 percent" figure equates to, in terms of the actual storage in gigabytes that a user is allowed without triggering additional charges, will be published in the TOS document on the site, Simpson said.
"It's very much modeled around the telco policy," Simpson said of the terms of service. "We believe customers are conversant with it."
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AVG is pitching LiveKive as a replacement to Mozy, which ditched its unlimited storage plans this past January. Still, there's a catch: the LiveKive terms of service claim that users will be required to pay extra if they exceed the capacity usage of 95 percent of the other users, said Stephen Simpson, AVG's global head of consumer products.
AVG's LiveKive also offers incremental backup and sharing options. The service was launched in beta in February.
AVG is also offering a generous chunk of cloud storage for free: 5 Gbytes, with no limits, Simpson said. A 25-Gbyte option will cost $49.99 per year, and the unlimited plan will cost $79.99 per year, he said. The program is being launched in Canada, Ireland, and the U.K., where the plans will cost £34.99 and £54.99, respectively.
There are no limits on the amount of bandwidth that a user can consume per month, Simpson said. What the "95 percent" figure equates to, in terms of the actual storage in gigabytes that a user is allowed without triggering additional charges, will be published in the TOS document on the site, Simpson said.
"It's very much modeled around the telco policy," Simpson said of the terms of service. "We believe customers are conversant with it."
More details - link