Comments on: Files in the cloud: Feature, product or company?

By: Amber At-Neat

Amber At-Neat — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:38:59 +0000

We at The Neat Company agree and believe it is crucial that we provide our customers with new tools that enhance their experience with our products. We also believe that features such as sync, sharing, and mobile access are key components to a comprehensive cloud-based solution. That’s why we’ve built upon our Digital Filing System by launching NeatCloud and NeatMobile to supplement our scanner and software products. Our Digital Filing System provides users with a holistic way to acquire, access, and share important information from anywhere. To learn more about The Neat Company and Digital Filing Systems, check out: http://www.neat.com.

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:41:25 +0000

It is tempting to conceptualize the market as a “file sharing market”, but another way to conceptualize the market is as a “collaboration market”. Companies are looking for better ways to make workers work together, file sharing is part of it, but it also involves coordination of effort (task management, calendars), communication (IM, email, forums) and even corporate communications (intranet pages). Going further, enterprise social networking is also becoming part of the same bundle of features. Players like Google Apps, Office 365, Huddle and even our HyperOffice take this holistic “collaboration” approach.

By: cloudHQ

cloudHQ — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:25:18 +0000

We believe that there will be multiple cloud storage services and companies. Why? Because each of cloud storage service have their own use case.

For example, Google Drive is excellent for collaboration and storage is cheap but customer support is virtually non-existent. On other hand, Dropbox is not so good for online collaboration on documents but it is excellent for storing and sharing large files. Or if you use Basecamp – Basecamp is an excellent project management service – but it is not the best service to store and manage your files.

And we also believe that replicating and synchronizing data between cloud services will be very important after all your data ends up in the cloud. If nothing “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”.

So we built http://cloudHQ.net – service will replicate and synchronizes all your data in the cloud.

By: walthamcourier

walthamcourier — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:21:48 +0000

The big boys will continue to play catch up. Dropbox has so much stickiness and big head start, itll be interesting to see how they attack DropBox. The interoperability is the reason I have stayed with DropBox, its easy, it works, I rely on it.

By: cschloeder

cschloeder — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:16:30 +0000

There is a lot of supply-side momentum behind cloud storage, but the cloud doesn’t work well for large photo/video libraries and confidential documents. We’re not really going to store ALL of our content in the cloud – it would cost too much and take too long to upload.

The next wave in personal cloud computing is the personal private cloud, connecting your own devices securely peer-to-peer for access to 100% of your files. (Disclosure: that’s what my company Polkast does.)

By: Julia Mak

Julia Mak — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:18:45 +0000

Agree with the gut statement – the market will be won by those who try to solve the problem holistically. Sync is just a feature to address the very basic need for users – access to their data whenever and wherever. But it is much more than that. While users can upload a few sets of files here and there into different services and applications – what about the tons and tons of existing data companies have on their own storage systems? How can users get access to that when they need it, and what else can we do with that data once it has become easily available? There are still so many gaps, so much potential for other players to tilt the market and change the game.

By: ricdesan

ricdesan — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:41:37 +0000

This still has a long way to go for large scale adoption! With the megaupload fiasco and the Google drive TOS mess, I will keep my data to myself thank you very much.

By: Haim At Iqtell

Haim At Iqtell — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:30:32 +0000

It’s not devices that the cloud storage service needs to sync with, it’s more the platforms people work/waste their time on…and the more you integrate together, the merrier.

I work at a company (closed beta) that integrates Dropbox to your Flicker images and creates tasks with Evernote notes that you can later streamline through Gmail while scheduling with Yahoo/AOL/G-Cal calendars and the list goes on and on…

When you have all the crowd’s platforms integrated under one roof, the user won’t care about brands, features or services for that matter…he won’t care even about devices because he won’t have to…it’s all there.

If you want to enter the beta go to http://iqtell.com/

By: Arkadiusz Dymalski

Arkadiusz Dymalski — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:24:26 +0000

“being labeled a feature is actually a compliment” is a great point. But actually we’re talking about services not products and I don’t know why people mix these 2 terms. Anyway if people pay for the service you can call it a company. It’s that simple and people repeating that remark by Steve Jobs (which was – I guess – just angry reaction to rejection) are completely pointless.