Datto Launches Datto Drive For SMBs; Offers 1TB at $10 a Month For Unlimited Users (dattodrive.com) 51
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.
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We need a -1, Dice moderation for when these idiotic adverts get through!
Dice no longer owns Slashdot. The new Overlords seem to be doing a little better, perhaps this just "slipped by",
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You say this, and yet obviously you are still here...
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That's it, I'm going to Kiro5hin.
Slashvert... (Score:4, Insightful)
Yes indeed.
Re:Slashvert... (Score:5, Insightful)
Kudos,
Re:Slashvert... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Can it be accessed by ftp?
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And it can get burned down in a fire. Different strokes for different folks.
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$10 per month, or $120 per year. My NAS box offers 1TB of storage too. ...
You noted it's on your lan. While that has its own advantages, it's not offsite. You also imply that it can't be accessed externally. That's your choice, but that's a huge limitation. Even if you did allow external access, your upload speed (which would be the download speed for you while you're away from home) is likely to be FAR slower than this service, or anything with a proper presence.
Your home NAS certainly has value, but this fulfills a completely different need. And, for $120/year, getting 1TB for
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OK sure. But I can see a new Linux distribution using something like this in addition to a VPS like Linode provides to host their repository.
$10/mo for a webserver with plenty of bandwidth, another $10/mo for a TB of storage...
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too lazy to read the FA but "plenty of bandwidth" was that actually mentioned?
sounds like a perfect video repository then.
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Linode has plenty of bandwidth ... so you set your 'node up as a reverse caching proxy that pulls content as it is requested from the Datto storage
The real questions (Score:2)
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?"
SMBs? (Score:1)
Server Message Block protocol's didn't make sense, so I looked it up.
There are better offers out there (Score:1)
Mod this up! (Score:2)
Yes, Hubic must be much better and cheaper, I hope,
but it's good to counter the slashvertisement with antitisement.
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Good price but can I access the storage by ftp?
Owncloud? For real? (Score:1)
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
ssh, iscsi, rsync+ssh, protocol control exclusion? (Score:2)
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 is a reputable online backup vendor for biz (Score:3)
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.
Why pay? (Score:2)
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.
Wow, that's a narrow demographic (Score:2)
How many Super Mario Brothers *are* there, let alone ones that want to buy those drives?