Demand for cloud-based storage and backup is creating some lucrative opportunities for companies servicing large telecommunications providers.
We are seeing a number of carriers offering cloud-based services. Orange Business Services announced today that it will be offering cloud storage and other cloud-based services for its customers.
Verizon announced earlier this month that it is offering a number of cloud-related services.
Telecommunications companies are partnering with services like Nomadesk to give customers the ability to do their own cloud-based online backups.
Belgium-based Nomadesk is an online backup and syncing service for small business owners and personal users. It provides unlimited storage and sharing. The company announced this week a partnership with Bell Canada to provide its millions of customers with online back up for their mobile devices.
Nomadesk is a virtual hard drive on your desktop. It’s very simple. We downloaded the application, made some simple configurations and immediately had the ability to drag and drop files into the virtual hard drive that sits on the desktop.The hard drive is connected to the cloud and syncs when updates are made.
Your data is secured and encrypted. It can be shared with any number of users and synced across the community. Applications can be backed up. Access to documents are available online or offline.
Nomadesk CEO Filip Tack is touting the service as a better alternative to Box.net and Mozy. We agree that Nomadesk is easy to use, but as a collaboration platform it has some way to go.
For example, Nomadesk does not have an advanced search capability like Box.net. We view enterprise search as a key feature for collaboration services. Tack said the company will offer search as a feature in the first part of 2010.
Companies in this space are showing big market gains as larger providers seek revenues from the petabytes of data being produced every day. Mozy, for instance, just announced a partnership with Cox Business. Mozy is also partnering with China Telecom, McAfee and Vodafone to deliver cloud-based backup to customers.
What is the amount of data that is produced every day in the enterprise? We know this can vary wildly but even small businesses are starting to produce exponential amounts of information compared to just a year ago.
As this amount of information continues to grow, services like Nomadesk should stand to do very well as providers for large telecommunications companies.
Nomadesk service for small businesses starts at $15 per user, per month.
