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Storage - Thursday, May 10, 2007

Jungle Disk Is To Online Backup As Skype Is To Phone Calls

Let us explain why we compare Jungle Disk to Skype. Sure Carbonite's recent $15M "B" round was led by Menlo Ventures, which joins existing investors 3i Group and Common Angels, and Mozy's corporate owner Berkeley Data Systems is venture funded by Wasatch Partners, Tim Draper and Novell co-founder Drew Major.

But Amazon S3 has dirt-cheap storage prices-- $0.15 cents per month per gigabyte of storage, and $0.10-.18 per gigabyte transferred. And it's Jungle Disk that is an agile desktop interface for S3 with versions for the Mac, Windows, and Linux. Jungle Disk doesn't just manage backup, it allows you to address S3 as if it were another local disk drive. So you can use S3 as online storage for files you share between multiple PCs/laptops, too.

And the ~1MB Jungle Disk v 1.25 b download is free for now. You set and forget-- it runs automatically at regular intervals you choose, and/or you can also set it to run manually.

You can use your existing Amazon.com account, so tens of millions virtually have S3 already. It's free to sign up for S3 and you'll only pay for the storage you use.

The first movers in online backup want about $5.95 per month for the first 2 GB, and then $2 per month per GB after that. That's 13x what S3 charges. And the many others -- AllMyData, AT&T Online Vault, BackUpright, Box.net, DataDepositBox, Elephant Drive, eSureIT, GeekSquadGlobalDrive, iBackup, iDrive, Iomega iStorage, NTI Backup, Omnidrive, Openonomy, Streamload, StrongSpace, and Xdrive (owned by AOL).

The release version of the Jungle Disk software will cost:
$20 for a lifetime purchase with free upgrades OR $1 per month subscription with no up-front cost (and free upgrades).

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