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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

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Post by keevon »

huangm wrote: post #10
breck wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Actually selective sync doesn't fully handle this case. With selective sync you could choose not to sync down certain files to the computer, but then they aren't accessible at all. With ZumoDrive, the files are accessible but "deflated", meaning they take up no space but will stream and cache on the computer when accessed.

Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application

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Post by callmeed »

I don't understand why these cloud storage companies aren't targeting more verticals/niches with their offerings. It seems like there are endless (B2B) places where ZumoDrive's offering would solve real problems that people would pay for.

I know in our industry (pro photography), having cloud storage that mimics a local drive has big potential. To be able to work in Lightroom or Aperture from multiple machines and know images are safe in the cloud would be huge. That's just 1 small example ...

Why the focus on consumer music and photos? Seriously, I don't get it.

Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application

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Post by betterlabs »

callmeed wrote: post #12

I don't understand why these cloud storage companies aren't targeting more verticals/niches with their offerings. It seems like there are endless (B2B) places where ZumoDrive's offering would solve real problems that people would pay for. I know in our industry (pro photography), having cloud storage that mimics a local drive has big potential. To be able to work in Lightroom or Aperture from multiple machines and kn…

I couldn't agree more. B2B can also be a lot more profitable in the long run and there are clear differentiators that can be built with a focus on vertical/niches.

Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application

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Post by runinit »

breck wrote: post #9
euroclydon wrote: post #5

Earlier 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.

You have no idea how much I would love to backup my music to a solution like this, but I do not live in a place that provides me with a decent upstream connection. What kind of speeds do you get when you upload? It seems to me that 40KB/s is a bit slow to be doing full drive backups online.

Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application

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Post by nixme »

betterlabs wrote: post #13
callmeed wrote: post #12

I don't understand why these cloud storage companies aren't targeting more verticals/niches with their offerings. It seems like there are endless (B2B) places where ZumoDrive's offering would solve real problems that people would pay for. I know in our industry (pro photography), having cloud storage that mimics a local drive has big potential. To be able to work in Lightroom or Aperture from multiple machines and kn…

I couldn't agree more. B2B can also be a lot more profitable in the long run and there are clear differentiators that can be built with a focus on vertical/niches.

I'm actually working in this space... stay tuned.

Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application

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Post by perneto »

I've long been thinking that something like Coda (the distributed filesystem from CMU) would be the best option in this space. Coda keeps the data, but lets nodes locally sync some of it for offline use. It's been around ages, too. Has anyone thought about it too?

Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application

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Post by lux »

perneto wrote: post #16

I've long been thinking that something like Coda (the distributed filesystem from CMU) would be the best option in this space. Coda keeps the data, but lets nodes locally sync some of it for offline use. It's been around ages, too. Has anyone thought about it too?

That's pretty much what ZumoDrive is doing too. It's offline, but you set how much of a local cache for recent/frequently used files you want, which makes it feel local for cached files (because it is :).

Re: ZumoDrive (YC 07) Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application

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Post by alexro »

callmeed wrote: post #12

I don't understand why these cloud storage companies aren't targeting more verticals/niches with their offerings. It seems like there are endless (B2B) places where ZumoDrive's offering would solve real problems that people would pay for. I know in our industry (pro photography), having cloud storage that mimics a local drive has big potential. To be able to work in Lightroom or Aperture from multiple machines and kn…

I think businesses will be more reluctant to that as they need to first make sure none of the data gets lost when your service dies or the building burns down
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