The Us start-up Space Monkey wants a new service roll-out, which for ten dollars a terabyte of cloud storage provides. This combines the company the concept of the well-known service Dropbox with that of the bittorrent protocol.
The cloudopslagdienst works with local hardware of the users: is a network drive, which all of the Space Monkey-users are the data places them in the cloud. The drive has a storage capacity of 2TB, but it is the user itself but 1TB. The other terabyte is for other users of the platform.
All data that customers in the cloud to store, in small, encrypted packets are distributed among the various Space Monkey drives distributed around the world. Thus, the users always have a backup of their data locally and in the cloud on other network drives. That is also the reason why the company has a terabyte for ten bucks per month can offer; the company itself has no servers, but only servers that have the different packets together again search. About the encryption or security of the system, nothing is yet known.
It is remarkable that the start-up in conversation with American isps to ensure that users of their data can upload to other users with the same isp. The reason for this is that traffic between customers of the same isp, that isp is much cheaper than traffic between different isps. So, the users would nothing or much less have to pay for the bandwidth usage of the platform.
The data can also be accessed through smartphone apps or via a web interface, like Dropbox and other alternatives is the case. The company wants the service for the upcoming summer offering in the United States. About a release in Europe, nothing is yet known.
