Space Monkey Raises $2.25M To Do P2P Storage A Bit Differently
July 15, 2012The awkwardly-named Space Monkey is augmented with a stylish external hard drive that stores a copy of the user’s data locally, to expedite access.
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The awkwardly-named Space Monkey is augmented with a stylish external hard drive that stores a copy of the user’s data locally, to expedite access.
An ambitious French startup wants to reinvent file hosting as a peer-to-peer service, cutting out the costs associated with servers and eliminating the storage and speed limitations of current generation technology.
Dropbox is clearly watching Google Drive, because they’ve bumped their free storage offering up to match it.
Fresh on the heels of Google‘s Dropbox-like remote storage service, Google Drive, is a furor over what the fine print in the service’s user agreement means for users’ intellectual property.
On Tuesday, Google confirmed rumors that the company has been working on an online storage system similar to Dropbox, and launched the service to some users.
The mechanics of transferring a file via removable media sometimes called the sneakernet have remained largely unchanged since the early days of personal computing.