ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application
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Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application
#2> ZumoDrive mimics a standard hard drive but saves content in the cloud and then streams it to each device instead of saving local copies, making it the killer app for the netbook and other devices with limited storage.
Nice. This is exactly what I need for my Netbook.
Versionate was a great product too :)
Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application
#3JungleDisk should also be mentioned as a competitive offering.
Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application
#4> ZumoDrive mimics a standard hard drive but saves content in the cloud and then streams it to each device instead of saving local copies, making it the killer app for the netbook and other devices with limited storage. Nice. This is exactly what I need for my Netbook. Versionate was a great product too :)
That's the first time I've really understood the difference between ZumoDrive and Dropbox. Thanks for calling out the sentence.
Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application
#5> ZumoDrive mimics a standard hard drive but saves content in the cloud and then streams it to each device instead of saving local copies, making it the killer app for the netbook and other devices with limited storage. Nice. This is exactly what I need for my Netbook. Versionate was a great product too :)
Why would anyone want to use this rather than dropbox which synchronizes your files and stores a local copy?
Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application
#6> ZumoDrive mimics a standard hard drive but saves content in the cloud and then streams it to each device instead of saving local copies, making it the killer app for the netbook and other devices with limited storage. Nice. This is exactly what I need for my Netbook. Versionate was a great product too :)
Not to detract from this business, but couldn't this just as easily be a checkbox on Dropbox?
Suppose Dropbox wanted to do this, how does YC react? Although I suppose there is lots of room for competition in this space...
Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application
#7> ZumoDrive mimics a standard hard drive but saves content in the cloud and then streams it to each device instead of saving local copies, making it the killer app for the netbook and other devices with limited storage. Nice. This is exactly what I need for my Netbook. Versionate was a great product too :)
Not to detract from this business, but couldn't this just as easily be a checkbox on Dropbox? Suppose Dropbox wanted to do this, how does YC react? Although I suppose there is lots of room for competition in this space...
It certainly could be done on Dropbox, their services have been growing more close over time. Zumodrive only recently added linked-folders, which are basically a copy of the Dropbox model.
That said, they are both YC companies, and it's good to have competition in this space.
Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application
#8JungleDisk should also be mentioned as a competitive offering.
Indeed, JungleDisk appears to offer a very similar service. I back up my entire main computer to JungleDisk (automatic incremental backup every midnight). On my minimal laptop for travel is a "Drive J:" which gives me access straight from Amazon's cloud for all the data on all the drives backed up from my main computer without local storage. One charge for the software, no extra cost for any number of virtually sync'd machines. Works great for a travel machine where you want access to all your data but don't want to carry it around with the risk of losing it; there's even a password to gain access to "Drive J:", so a lost computer contains no private data and also can't be used to access the cloud copy at Amazon.
Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application
#9> ZumoDrive mimics a standard hard drive but saves content in the cloud and then streams it to each device instead of saving local copies, making it the killer app for the netbook and other devices with limited storage. Nice. This is exactly what I need for my Netbook. Versionate was a great product too :)
Why would anyone want to use this rather than dropbox which synchronizes your files and stores a local copy?
I love Dropbox. I have it on every computer and make sure all of my friends use it.
But I store 10GB of music in my dropbox, and I don't want that on every computer.
I would gladly move that to zumodrive.
Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would anyone want to use this rather than dropbox which synchronizes your files and stores a local copy?
I love Dropbox. I have it on every computer and make sure all of my friends use it. But I store 10GB of music in my dropbox, and I don't want that on every computer. I would gladly move that to zumodrive.
It looks like Dropbox's selective sync is right around the corner, which would fully handle that use case.