I am always trying to keep an eye on various cloud storage solutions. A company called Cloudberry has been offering an Amazon S3 storage client called CloudBerry Explorer for a while.
Now they are targeting the data backup and restore marketing with their CloudBerry Backup. Current features include:
- Maintain the same data structure on AmazonS3 as you have on your local computer
- Support for Amazon Reduced Redundancy Storage
- Asia Pacific Region support
- Secure Storage
- Data Versioning
Features coming soon are:
- Expose Amazon S3 storage as a local disk on your computer
- Storage costs estimates
- Web interface
- FTP support
- Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network support
- Microsoft Azure Blob Storage support
Interesting to see another player in the cloud backup game. CloudBerry seem to be going down similar road as Jungle Disk with their support of alternate cloud storage providers Nirvanix, and Microsoft Azure Blog Storage. I would still like to see one provider offer a standard cloud storage client for ALL cloud storage providers.
Hi Kim,
Thank you for making a post on CloudBerry Backup. I’d like to say that it is going to be very challenging to support all cloud storage providers as first of all it is hard to list them all and second many of them offer their own proprietary APIs and it is quite some work to support them. On the other hand we see a trend that many cloud storage providers standardize on Amazon S3 compatible API. For instance, Google Storage and Dunkel Storage (in Germany) both have S3 compatible API that makes it easier for tool vendors and application developers to integrate
Andy
I came across your article looking for something that would let me access my Amazon S3, Google Docs and my local WebDAV server. I also needed to be able to access these natively from Windows and from my BlackBerry. I’ve looked across a lot of solutions and finally settled on one from SMEStorage. Their free Windows cloud explorer is impressive, and the solution already has web support and a cloud drive for the desktop. I was initially torn between this solution and Gladinet but the BlackBerry
client made up my mind. The solution supports many storage cloud accessible from one file system, much like Gladinet, so you should look at both these companies as appertains your dream of accessing all storage clouds from one client.
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I have been monitoring Gladinet and use Gladinet too. They have 3 poducts now, one for desktop access. one for server access and one for cloud backup (sqlserver, windows states and etc). Probably will check periodically with Gladinet to see what the new offerings are.