Symform Cloud Storage Network For Linux

Symform, Inc. has broadened the availability of its Global Cloud Storage Network to Linux users with support for Fedora, Ubuntu and CentOS distributions.

Linux users can now take advantage of Symform’s recently announced Bytes or Bucks offering – the cloud backup unlimited free product. Customers who opt to pay with Bytes obtain free cloud backup by contributing local unused drive space to the Symform Cloud Storage Network, or they can pay with Bucks at $0.15 per gigabyte per month.

When finalizing which distributions to initially support, Symform conducted a survey of 100 businesses about their use of Linux for file servers. The results revealed that 67% of respondents were using Debian chain distributions like Ubuntu, while 54% were using Red Hat chain distributions such as Fedora or CentOS. From questions about data growth and management, the survey showed 63% of Debian/Ubuntu users had one TB or more of data stored on their servers. However, many of those respondents were not backing up all of their data due to the high cost of traditional cloud storage. In fact, 20% of respondents were doing nothing at all for backup.

"The Linux community is an important audience for our distributed, crowdsourced backup model, as many Linux users have large amounts of data and embrace the concept of contributing to a community," said Praerit Garg, co-founder and president at Symform. "This support also reflects our commitment to global platform ubiquity and addresses a top feature request by our partners and customers who use Linux servers for business critical workloads and storage."

Symform offers SMBs and prosumers an affordable, secure and reliable cloud storage and backup offering on the market. While traditional cloud providers rely on expensive, energy hungry centralized datacenters to power their cloud offerings and to store customers’ data, Symform is able to offer a disruptive pricing model because it has almost no centralized infrastructure. As a result, Symform is building the world’s largest virtual datacenter by leveraging customers’ contributed local drive space to power their Global Cloud Storage Network. Currently, Symform has users in 150 countries who are storing more than 5.2 billion data fragments across the global network.

Free download of Linux cloud backup application (registration needed)