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Lifetime Protection for Critical Content: Everybody’s Doing It - NOT!

Monday, March 17th, 2008

When we say that iForem provides guaranteed lifetime protection for critical content, we mean exactly that. No ifs, ands or buts. Recently, we noticed that other companies are saying painfully similar things, so we checked - and sure enough, they simply can’t deliver - and sometimes, they\know it.

 

Let’s summarize: iForem - and only iForem - delivers the goods:

 

  1. Pay-Once: No recurring fees
  2. iNuity Irrevocable trust: No cancelation or loss of service
  3. Location Diversity: Disaster protection
  4. Enterprise-grade Security: Server-side encryption and two-factor login options

 

Now for the reality check: First and foremost, only iForem guarantees lifetime service with no recurring fees. The “perpetuity pretenders” can’t pull this off, since they either base your data’s longevity on a never-ending subscription payment model with no price guarantees - so bottom line, if you miss a payment, it’s bye-bye bytes. Other services route payments through a non-profit foundation, which sounds good but cannot offer any time of permanence.

 

Which brings us to iNuity. An independent subsidiary of iForem, iNuity is an irrevocable financial trust that receives a percentage of all iForem sales. iNuity’s mission in life is to operate and maintain iForem customers’ Digital Safe Deposit Boxes from here to eternity.

 

We dare the other guys to offer that!

 

But wait - there’s more!

 

How do we know that we’re the only ones who can guarantee that our offer is the real deal? For this, you have to delve into the fine print of what’s usually referred to as Terms and Conditions. (You know - the stuff hardly anyone reads, largely because it’s so unreadable - but you do have to check that little box that says you’ve read and agreed to those terms.)

 

It turns out that these other guys reveal all in their Terms and Conditions, where the intrepid customer can discover phrases like what follows. Note that these are copied directly from the Terms and Agreements of other services claiming to protect your files forever (with the names omitted because we’re nice people).

 

  • [The other guy’s company] shall have the rights to edit or delete User’s content and/or terminate the Terms of Use and/or User’s access to the Websites, at any time without notice in their absolute discretion.
  • Upon termination of the Terms of Use or access to the Website (for whatever reason), there shall be no refund of money paid to [the other guy’s company].
  • [The other guy’s company] shall not be responsible or liable for the deletion, correction, destruction, damage, loss or failure to store any data.
  • [The other guy’s company] reserves the right to terminate your account and delete any data within [the other guy’s company] service if you fail to comply with this Agreement or for cause of any other nature.
  • [The other guy’s company] is in no way liable for loss of customer data.

 

Long story short: you own your iForem Digital Safe Deposit Box. Period. But you just rent it from the other guys.

 

There’s even icing on our cake: iForem is the only service that is sold to businesses - because we’re the only lifetime content protection service available that’s strong enough for companies to consider using.

 

iForem. You get way more than you pay for.

Lifestyle change - expect to have something for the rest of your life!

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Asked what a lifestyle change is one may get many answers. My answer is, pay-once and keep something for life! That is a new lifestyle choice. Can you have your utility service for a one time payment? Can you connect with your customers for life with a one time payment? Do you trust a free service to be your partner for life? I found the answers these questions to be NO! What is important in my lifestyle?


Passwords!
Online License and download information for software!
Family recipes that I want to share with my cousins!

Now these can be stored and preserved for ever in a fully functional management tool. No more fees or software upgrades. No risk of losing the hardware I store such things on. Better security than the paper under my desk with the security of a bank.

All this for $9.95? And never pay again? YES with iForem!
We offer you Perpetual Peace of Mind. I wanted it so much I built a company to insure it. I just made it cost effective for everyone. Buy the only Perpetual Peace of Mind you can find. Buy iForem!

Ask for your digital file

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

You should ask!

Ask for copies of your taxes! 
Ask for copies of your medical records!
Insure a copy is safe in iForem. 

Each folder you create in iForem has its own special email address.  Get those important documents in a way you can preserve them - that is what iForem is for!

Buy our service for $20 and try it out.  What do you have to lose?

Shhhh - don’t tell anyone - just yet!

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Time release data - a Time Capsule if you will.  Something I want to say but not today.  Something important, something critical - something I may want the world to know.  Just not now.  I could wait - I could debate.  But I will not.  I will do something about it.  Like this message to you now. 

Watch for a change, and see what you can do with iForem soon.

iForem’s Vision - Perpetual Piece of Mind - A second chance in the digital age

Monday, September 24th, 2007

What would I write on my epitaph?

When I was first asked this in college, I couldn’t have imagined that my life tod?y would be captured as digital records - or that these records would be a complete digital mess.

I’ve worked in the IT industry my entire life. Backups, security, 512K floppy disks, USB keys…all have contributed to a disorganized digital garage.

If you asked me to write my epitaph today, here’s what you’d get:

Here lies Stephen’s Digital Identity. If you can even open these files, good luck in finding the important stuff - Sarbanes-Oxley documents from the many successful companies I founded, notes of my ideas, and the many love letters I wrote to my wife. Somewhere in the 600 hours of video is footage of my kids walking for the first time. My will and medical directive are on a USB key (the silver one, not the blue). So to my future generations, please find the important info and write a nice book.
- Stephen Pieraldi - Loving Husband, Father and digital hog

That is why I founded iForem - so that I can write this epitaph instead:

Here lies Stephen’s Digital Safe Deposit box at iForem. In it you will find his most important memories and journals filed and kept for posterity. His loving wife and children have access to the files, so if you’re interested ask them for a copy. Stephen’s publishers have been given access to those directories containing his many patents and poems. Soon this Vault will be added to the Smithsonian digital vault library.
 Stephen Pieraldi - iForem Service Beneficiary

The digital age gave us the power to capture our life - but not to preserve it. I made iForem to ensure my digital legacy, and now I’m making it available for yours. We’ve created a digital trust that would cost tens of thousands of dollars for an individual to build on his or her own. You can submit your memories to a secure generational vault that can then be accessed by you and those you designate with easy-to-use software,

If you had an iForem vault, what would you save for your legacy? What protection will you bring to your company from compliance violations? How will you secure your digital future?

Join me as an iForem Service Beneficiary today for a small one-time fee - and see what iForem’s Perpetual Peace of Mind is all about.
 - Stephen Pieraldi - iForem, Redwood Shores - 2007

iForem means?

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Here is our answer

1) The ‘i” is for pure marketing and we tacked it on

2) Forem is Latin with two meanings
    a) to be, exist
    b) fore, forem : future infinitive of sum.

3) Sounds like Forum which is a marketing trick and we liked it
    a) forum : market place, town square.

And it was not taken as a URL - so there you have it - a bit of history, marketing, and fun.

Compelling Thought

Friday, September 21st, 2007

The onlycompany that can GUARANTEE access to your data FOREVER. We assure that service will be provided, compliance maintained, and important data managed

- even throughbankruptcy.