I found this and reckon it may be the same person:
“Yvonne Says:

July 23rd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Stephen, while I havent visited many ’specialist’ backup providersâ€? I’m in no doubt that some are storing data on inexpensive SATA drives, in standard servers, etc. sitting in offices. Most backup providers in Ireland are using Ahsay and when I say most, I would reckon 95% (Keepitsafe, Datahaven, Host-IT, Strencom, Bondi-Group etc). and most will tell you they are the biggest providers in the country. Take Arion Backup they claim to have invested in infrastructre in 2 data centres when in fact they just resell for Keepitsafe. Databackup.ie state they backup into 2 data centres, DEG & WebWorld. WebWorld is an office in an industrial estate which databackup.ie happen to share. I dont think you could call this a data centre. My point is you get what you pay for, it’s also important to look at the compines selling the services.”

Wow, angry person. Must be an interested party. Which company?

You can read the full post and comments here.

http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/11/03/virtual-storage-and-network-backup-review/

John

Tom: Relax. I’d consider it illogical because as Yvonne said, 100GB was cheaper than 60GB. That’s all. Nothing personal and I wasn’t making an attack on your business.

Your public comment is stating our Company pricing model is not Logical, and could be considered liable and damaging to our business.

I dont know how familiar you are with our business model but let me assure you we are doing very well.

I would suggest you amend your above statement, and remain from making such attacks in the future.

I prefer to focus on my business and keep advancing our technology and offerings to benefit the consumer, than to squabble on the web for no reason.

Mark
As amusing as it is to me seeing Gary getting it into the neck after his unprovoked attack on my business, this conversation is really going in the wrong direction.

Silly bickering from backup providers will do the industry more harm than good.

Tom
http://www.databackup.ie

I hope things are going much better for you now, however I remember some days it was impossible to get you, and having to call a virtual office all day long

Location: as Tom from databackup.ie said above, if you’re an Irish business you’re almost certainly bound by the Data Protection Acts. The only safe way to stay compliant is to keep your data in the EU, so forget about US providers. They’re fine for your family photos (I recommend Carbonite!) but you’re taking chances with business data. Initial backups and bulk restores are also a pain in the ass if you need to send them overseas. It’s totally illogical having to worry about geography when selecting an online service, but that’s the law for you.

Service: my company is a trade supplier of online backup (although not to anyone who’s commented so far). We provide the capacity and our resellers are the interface with the customer. As such I see a *lot* of what goes on behind the scenes. One reseller in particular charges over twice what a rival does, but their customers love them because they are the ones that phone *you* when your backup didn’t run last night. We’ve had resellers in the past who would sell backup for peanuts, but wouldn’t pick up the phone if a customer had a problem….. Their customers didn’t stay with them for long.

One last thing on price; every backup platform has their own way of calculating disk usage, so 1GB of Ahsay may hold more or less than 1GB of Asigra (which has two different storage calculation methods). And Yvonne, databackup.ie are perfectly transparent in their pricing. Not very logical, but totally transparent

Nice post in The Post! Things are obviously good for you. I must be in the right business!

John