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If you are using the new Windows Mobile 6.5 on your mobile phone, you should be able to see the Microsoft My Phone.

OK, what izzit? Well it is a kind of phone service provided by Microsoft… but not to make calls or sms… it is a kind of online backup service for your phone’s contacts, calendar, tasks, text messages, music, photos, videos and other documents.

To use it, you will need a Windows Live ID… you can register one from the web if you don’t have one yet… then with your Windows Live ID, login from your phone and everything will be straight forward, your phone should be able to sync with the Microsoft My Phone service.

Other than providing online backup for your mobile phone data, Microsoft My Phone also can be used to track your lost mobile phone… it can tell you the last known location of your phone on a map based on where it was last synced or shared photos using the My Phone.

I have fiddle with the service on my Windows Mobile 6.5 phone, but I’m not dare to register yet… I’m very concern about the data safety… will it get leaked out? But I’m still thinking… I will not dump it completely… I might use the service one day… 😛

On Monday till Wednesday (21st – 23rd April 2008), I was attending a course. It’s about online backup for data centre. The tool is CA XOsoft™ WANSync™HA. It’s a great tools, it works by backing-up the data online through wide area network. But the price is cool, the tool alone is about $20k and you will need a pair for every server to backup.

  
First day, the diagram is still clean…

  
Best part… food.

 
Final day… just chit chatting… everything are OK 😀

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IBackup includes applications for interactive and automatic scheduling of backups. It has all the enterprise backup features such as compression during transmission, incremental/full backups, encryption, snapshots for historical view, synchronization, open file support for Outlook, MS SQL Server, MS Exchange, Oracle Server Backups and many more. It provides an extensive enterprise-ready feature-set for secure online storage with superior performance.