A new company called Connected Data wants to change the way people do cloud storage, with a dedicated, Internet-connected storage device called the Transporter. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, the company is looking to get the product in more people’s hands, and will be helped in that pursuit by $6 million in Series A funding led by Floodgate, with participation from Northgate Capital.
The team behind Connected Data previously came from Drobo, maker of high-volume storage systems and enclosures. With the new device, they’re taking their knowledge from the storage market and adding a cloud-based networking twist into the mix.
The Transporter can connect to the Internet either by Ethernet or WiFi, and once it has, it provides users with an intuitive interface for accessing, managing, and sharing files securely between machines and with other people. Once installed and shared, users can access files stored on a Transporter through their computer’s usual file directory, or they can log in through a web browser.
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