TechCrunch: Nomadesk, Not Just Another File Sharing Service

December 21, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment 

techcrunch2Robin Wauters from TechCrunch posted this article yesterday about some of the things that separates Nomadesk from the competition. Announcing the new feature of FolderLink, Wauters makes a case for the steady additions of features and business focus as a way Nomadesk is differentiating itself from the others.

For what it’s worth: Nomadesk really has an awesome desktop client (Windows and Mac) that goes far beyond most of what competitors have to offer, and the distribution part of the equation is slowly coming to fruition as well (the company recently signed a deal with Bell Canada for the company to use Nomadesk’s solution as a white-label service they can offer directly to their customers, and has similar agreements in place and in the pipeline).

But while the company has been consistently growing after its inception a couple of years ago, albeit slowly, the startup has received very little attention from tech press and industry pundits so far. I genuinely think that Nomadesk deserves more of it, as its service stacks up against most proponents in this space, particularly in the way you can control your virtual fileserver(s) from your mobile phone.

Maybe a new feature being launched today will raise some eyebrows: Nomadesk is today introducing a welcome feature that allows users to share an entire folder – regardless of its size – with anyone with an Internet connection and a browser. Simply use the desktop client to right-click any folder you’d like to share, and you can relay the link to whoever you would like to share it with, and they don’t need to have the software installed let alone be a registered Nomadesk user to access all the files in the folder.

Read the full article here.

TechCrunch Breaks News On Bell Canada Partnership

December 15, 2009 by admin · 1 Comment 

MG Siegler from TechCrunch got the jump on everyone when he posted and article about the Bell Canada partnership with Nomadesk yesterday. The press release is scheduled for tomorrow but the cat is out of the bag.

The company has a deal with Bell Canada to give its SOHO and SMB customers easy access to Nomadesk’s cloud-storage offering. With it, Bell Canada customers will be able to share, synchronize, encrypt, backup, and store data on Nomadesk all for $15-a-month per file server. For this fee, an unlimited number of team members will be able to access the data through any computer, and more importantly for this deal, their phones.

Read the article here.