“As more and more of us have begun to embrace this whole “cloud” thing, we’ve gotten pretty loose with how share files with one another—and how we access our own files. Because right now, more often than not, there’s another entity of some sort serving as the go-between in the whole process. But that may be coming to an end, if Portland’s Avatron has their way.”
Avatron is hoping that their prototype–currently about to close its Kickstarter campaign–will trigger a fundamental shift in the cloud storage space.
“Concerned about security and privacy when using cloud services? A new Kickstarter project from Avatron Software could help you come back to earth.”
– TidBITS
“The big selling point behind Everydisk is its unlimited NAS-like storage. You get access to your entire disk, not just a special folder, the way you would with Dropbox and not just a standalone drive, as you would with PogoPlug or Transporter. According to the Avatron team, Everydisk creates its own secure tunnel between your computer and your access point, using Diffie-Hellman key exchange, offering you a way to confidently grab the materials you need.”
– TUAW
“Most of the competition like Dropbox or Google Drive are cloud storage that stores it in the cloud, which means they own a million servers or they rent from Amazon. They store it there so you have to pay a lot if you have a lot of files. In contrast we don’t store your files anywhere. The advantage is unlimited storage since we aren’t paying for it and we can’t sell your data or analyze it like the Google business model.”
Five-year-old bootstrapped startup Avatron Software is today launching a Kickstarter project to help develop its new software platform, Everydisk. Everydisk will let people easily access and interact with all their files, on any of their computers, from anywhere in the world. Everydisk is an alternative to costly and high profile cloud storage solutions that may be targets of hackers, spies, and others seeking access to our personal demographic data.
Whereas cloud solutions like Dropbox and Google Drive offer storage space on servers governed by arcane and compromising user agreements, Everydisk establishes direct, secure connections between a user’s devices and the increasingly affordable desktop hard drives attached to them.
How Everydisk works:
Avatron’s web-based server platform maintains a registry of each user’s computers. When a user logs in, they are presented with a menu of their connected devices. Once the connection is made between the user and their remote computers, no data goes through Avatron’s server. User data always stays on machines directly in the user’s control.