Hedvig | software-defined storage for modern business. Dropbox’s latest idea could change the way you think about cloud storage. One of the problems with Dropbox and indeed all cloud storage is the way they have implemented how you view your cloud storage on your local drive. If you want to access your cloud file system in your local file management tool, you literally need to have it stored on your drive, which really defeats the idea of having cloud storage in the first place — especially on devices with smaller hard drives.
Alternatively, you could open Dropbox.com and navigate to your files in a separate interface, an approach just about everyone dislikes. Dropbox wants to change that. Today at the Dropbox Open conference in London, the company announced Project Infinite with the goal of giving business customers local access to files no matter where they live — in the cloud, on network drives or local drives. In practice, this means when you open Windows Explorer or OSX Finder, you will have access to all of your Dropbox files without having to store them on your drive. As a Berlin-based VC firm focused on SaaS, we often get questions about the current state of the European cloud software landscape. To be able to answer these questions more precisely we decided to analyze each major European ecosystem, starting with France.
Our goal was to find all the relevant players in the French cloud ecosystem — from early-stage startups to large public companies — and put them on a map. The result, below, shows more than 200 cloud software companies across more than 15 categories. Our research revealed a couple of interesting insights. Here are six of them. Marketing and developer tools are the most popular categories among French SaaS entrepreneurs The top three software categories (Marketing, Developers and Productivity & Collaboration) account for more than 50 percent of the companies in our data set. These categories also attract the most money from VCs When we only take into account VC-backed companies, we can see that the distribution looks very similar.
Infinit veut simplifier le stockage dans le cloud | Presse-Citron. Infinit vient de dévoiler un nouveau service permettant de combiner tous les espaces de stockage d’un utilisateur dans un seul volume. Infinit est arrivé sur le marché en 2013 avec une solution de partage de fichiers reposant sur un client disponible sur Windows, OS X et Linux. Il a ensuite été suivi par des applications mobiles. Désormais, l’entreprise française souhaite se lancer à la conquête des entreprises et des professionnels avec une solution particulièrement prometteuse, infinit.sh. Contrairement aux services concurrents, cette solution ne va pas vous permettre de créer un énième espace de stockage dans les nuages.
L’angle adopté est un peu plus original. Infinit.sh va vous permettre de combiner plusieurs comptes pour créer un volume unique Grâce à ce service, l’internaute va effectivement pouvoir combiner ses comptes existants pour créer un volume unique accessible depuis n’importe quel appareil. Mais l’outil ne se limite pas aux solutions cloud.