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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.
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.
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