“We’ve always gone in the other direction, which is to provide the most flexible software we can.”
“Most software is designed to be simple and obvious to use, and one way to achieve that is to remove as many options as possible,” Michael said. Today, the software offers a complete synchronization and backup solution with one important differentiator - it’s flexible. Over the years, SyncBack continued to evolve and improve. As it happened, the first person to contribute to the cause ended up co-founding 2BrightSparks with him. Michael made the software available for download on his website, asking for small donations to keep the site up and running. “That was the first version of SyncBack.”
“I wanted to keep my brain active, so I wrote my own simple backup software,” he said. At the time, however, Michael found no suitable solution. He found his work was stacking up and quickly realized he was going to need to back up his files. Years later, after successful stints at a number of international and start-up companies, Michael found himself in Singapore writing resource management software for hospitals. “I had no job lined up, but I had nothing to lose.” “I sold everything I owned, which was just an old 386 PC,” Michael said. So he did what any other 20-something would do in that situation - sell all his belongings and move to Hong Kong to start coding professionally. However, surveying the landscape for employment opportunities in the UK, he found the job market to be very slim for new graduates. Winner of the British Computer Society Prize for his final year project, Michael was ripe for a promising career in development. It was the early 1990s and Michael Leaver had freshly graduated from Coventry University. Offering tools to be used individually or concurrently, Michael and the 2BrightSparks team aim to further disrupt the space with continued improvements to their data backup solutions in 2017.
Michael told us how SyncBack can be customized to prioritize backup processes - addressing the challenge of balancing data protection with system performance.
Michael and his team have tailored their backup and recovery solutions to focus on flexibility, which is why so many organizations around the world employ it to safeguard mission-critical business intel. The software offers comprehensive data protection, allowing users to seamlessly back up, synchronize, and restore data files. TL DR: In 2004, Michael Leaver, along with partners Mike De Sousa and Richard Gascoigne, founded 2BrightSparks with their flagship product SyncBack.
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