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Datto Launches Datto Drive For SMBs; Offers 1TB at $10 a Month For Unlimited Users (dattodrive.com)
Austin McChord, Datto's founder writes: In the era of nearly free cloud storage why on earth am I paying $15 a month per user (for Dropbox and Box). This seems absurd. As the founder of a cloud storage company I thought we could fix this. We combined OwnCloud which is an enterprise level open source file sync and share solution with our skills in infrastructure. Today we are launching Datto Drive, a file sync and share service for businesses that costs just $10 a month for unlimited users and 1TB of combined storage. To get started we are giving the first year away free for the first million businesses that sign up. One thing I'm worried about is whether this service will exist for more than a couple of years. We've seen plenty of startups offer us interesting services at great prices over the past few years, but many of them disappear. Tech Republic has more information about the aforementioned service. Update: 05/02 17:09 GMT by M : Reader torrija points us to a service called HubiC which offers 10TB for 5 euro a month. He adds that the feature is limited to one user, though.
Sponsored Stories should either be better disguised or straight up labeled. If this isn't a sponsored ad then it should be since it's 100% advertising.
Whoever put up the post about moving more toward Ars a couple of months ago: Thank you! An actual tech site and not this lame, fly-by-night crap known as Slashdot. Between PhysOrg and Ars I can pretty much proclaim that Slashdork is dead to me. No more lame political crap. No more trying to justify every as good or bad depending on the name badge a product carries. No more incompetent "editors" who are obviously getting paid to hit a button to promote a random story to the front page every half hour while spending the rest of their time playing Call of Duty and eating Cheetos.
There you have it folks: Ars Technica and PhysOrg. Or at the very least try out Soylent News.
It isn't even disguised as a news story.
Get Venture Capital. Offer free cloud backup... Hope to attain customers from free PR. Find out things aren't profitable = shut down in 2 years.
Citrix sharing/cloud platform is what $60 a month for 1TB and 5 employees. And companies will still use it over xyz cloud box drop whatever. Because of the name, reliability and service.
But at $60 a month it's possible to make money and it's a real service offering and business. At $10 a month, you have hope that the vast majority of customers store 1gb or something absurd.
That and most SMB and business owners get tired of these fly by night companies and moving their data around....
Yes indeed.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
You can buy a 1 TB network drive for $50 that allows Unlimited Users + 1
So for $120 per year you can get RAID, too. If you have any sort of functioning IT dept they can run circles around all these "cloud based" systems.
If they can't afford a tape drive, they can make backups to Blu-Rays. $100 is enough to get you started.
To get started we are giving the first year away free for the first million businesses that sign up.
And at $10/month that's giving away $120 million in revenue for the first year.
If they can do that, then their overhead must be minuscule. Meaning, they probably could charge $1/ month and still make money.
I'll keep my own data private, thank you.
After opening the links in the story in new tabs to read before commenting, I noticed something disturbing. The real questions we all need to be asking are, "Who the hell decided that browsers should support animated favicons? Were they not alive during the MARQUEE tag era?"
See that "Preview" button?
We need a -1, Dice moderation for when these idiotic adverts get through!
RIP, Rob Malda. He died so young. :(
Server Message Block protocol's didn't make sense, so I looked it up.
OwnCloud [...] is an enterprise level open source file sync and share solution
If you're not trying to be funny there and failing horrifically at it, I don't know what that is.
I use hubiC (https://hubic.com/en/). 10TB for 5€/month. Single user though.
I hate signatures
I remember when Bitcasa had a One-Time fee for Unlimited storage. I also remember when they switched to subscription model from. I managed to put 8TB of data before the switch.
OneDrive will soon change their free model to only 5GB, today I have 30gb and use 25 of it.
I bet that their "bait and switch" next year will cost double or triple that cost.
First, Owncloud is NOT enterprise level, by any stretch of the imagination. We evaluated this steaming shitpile a couple of months ago for our enterprise, and it was woefully lacking, and very unstable once the datastore surpassed about 300GB of material to keep track of.
Second, redundant disks are cheap. A SMB will almost assuredly need more than 1TB of storage at some point, and by the time you get there you may as well just build your own datastore.
Cloud has its uses, but cheap data storage isn't really one of them. It's hard to make storage cheaper in the cloud than it is on site.
So are you saying he's not dead? or that our gov't lied about what exactly happened so they got more money and public support?
Didn't they issue something about being clear about these things?
Yes, Hubic must be much better and cheaper, I hope,
but it's good to counter the slashvertisement with antitisement.
hubic: "We secure everything by ssl" .. lol, which ssl? the buggy, the bad or the good one?
And you can read my files, I really like that!
but
But I think its a nice offer, to use as an ultra cheap backup solution. I hope they don't mind that I upload files with their hashvalues as filenames and being encrypted.
Datto's been around for a while and has some very nice products for onsite and online backup for businesses. They're not inexpensive, but one of the big things they offer is continuity - if you're using one of their appliances for online backup and a server goes down, you can spin up the most recent backup of that server as a VM on their hardware, with all connections tunneled back through the backup device on your network.
Basically, ServerA has a hardware failure. Whoever's handling backups fires up the online backup image (or in-office depending on the size of appliance), the local backup appliance grabs the IP of the down server and tunnels all traffic to/from that local IP out to the remote VM. Not an ideal way to run, but functional for keeping at least core things going.
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just a little off
I am surprised no one has mentioned Backblaze (https://www.backblaze.com/). *Unlimited* personal backup from $5/month; and business plans from $50/year.
Why should you be paying? Because while storage is cheap, backups are expensive.
It seems to make sense to pay to never hear "we lost your data, sorry", but unortunately providers do not tell much about how they do backups.
How many Super Mario Brothers *are* there, let alone ones that want to buy those drives?