End-to-end Cloud Service Aerofs

Last week, Dropbox's 8 billion-dollar valuation was once a hot topic, and the driving factor behind it was 4 million enterprise-class service clients. But not all enterprise-class users can use Dropbox services. More strictly, in some industries that are more sensitive to data security, such as medical, financial and other industries, it is not allowed to store data on a third cloud service provider's server, not only for Dropbox.

What about the data storage of these enterprises? Aerofs, a start-up company graduating from Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, is specifically addressing this issue-providing end-to-end cloud services for enterprise-class customers with stringent data security requirements, such as finance and healthcare.

The so-called End-to-end cloud service means that when users download Aerofs clients (support Windows, MAC, Linux), create their own folders, put their own stored content under the folder, and if you want to sync documents with other devices (only under the same user account), As long as the client of another device receiving the file is turned on, the file can be sent or synchronized from device to device, and this data will not be sent to the Dropbox server and to other devices as Dropbox. The equivalent of bypassing a third party management center.

But since it is for enterprise-level users, the object of data transfer is for different accounts. Aerofs co-founder Yuri Sagalov to Pingwest said the initial Aerofs product form is the state above, but received a lot of users feedback, expressed the hope that they can provide services for the enterprise. So when corporate customers buy AEROFS authorization, team members just use a identification number, you can use Aerofs to send, store documents, Aerofs selling point is that the data flow will not be stored on the Third-party server, to achieve end-to-end transmission.

Aerofs graduated from YC in the summer of 2010, and in the process of increasing the number of enterprise customers also encountered some small customers because of the large amount of data, local storage space and other reasons to store data in third party requirements, so now AEROFS provides two kinds of cloud services-hybrid cloud and private cloud. The hybrid cloud is AEROFS provides cloud storage space, the enterprise can put the data on the Aerofs server, the charge standard for each user monthly 10 dollars; The private cloud maintains the idea of a aerofs startup, providing End-to-end cloud service solutions for businesses that need data security storage, The fee is 15 USD per user per month. There is no space limit.

Yuri Sagalov to pingwest that the biggest challenge is to make a product that's enterprise-oriented users simple enough. "You will find that after the company buys the handset from the BlackBerry to become the iphone, the Android handset, the consumer has accepted the end-user-oriented product function to be simple, the design is beautiful, the enterprise class product wants to do for the more user, must do like the consumer product to be easy to use." Because your product is no longer sold to corporate it owners, but to each user. ”

Now Aerofs has also released the Android version and submitted the iOS version to Apple for the audit phase.

Yuri Sagalov is unwilling to disclose Aerofs current number of users. In addition to graduation from YC's label, Aerofs has a "luxury" list of investors in the seed wheel: Andreessen Horowitz, Ashton Kutcher, SV Angel and Ame Cloud, and other Silicon Valley investment firms. At present they have just completed a round of financing by Webb investment receptacle with a total of 5.5 million dollars.