Zoolz With Cloud Software to Introduce U.S.A. Glacier

Zoolz (Genie9 Corp.) has decided to take it upon itself to avoid the pretentious price war and fraudulent low margins, thus presenting the first unlimited plan based on the Amazon Glacier for $2/month.

Up until now, there hadn’t been any user-friendly service that works comprehensively based upon the Glacier technology. Zoolz is set to change that, with its U.S.A slogan; those acronyms that do not represent the United States of America, yet they serve as ‘Unlimited Storage on Amazon’ Glacier.

Glacier, launched last year, is a data archival service designed for long-term needs and not for active use. Thus making it comprehensible that the fees for retrieval will be high in comparison to the fees for storage so as to discourage the use of Glacier for general purpose storage. It will also take 3 to 5 hours to prepare an archive for downloading.

What if Glacier could be used for general purposes and yet not break the preset budget? That is what Zoolz was set out to achieve; with its restore and hybrid features, it provides a restore time speed that is not only faster than both Amazon S3 cloud and Glacier, but a speed that could compete with local LAN services as well.

The lengthiness of the restore procedure is not the only tackled issue though; the costliness that hinders home end users from adopting Glacier is also solved with Zoolz’s unlimited plan of $2/month hence making data retrieval more affordable.

"It is indisputable that each and every family owns thousands of irreplaceable images, videos or music, and if the data is actually backed up, it is most probably to an external disk but not to the cloud," declared CEO Muayyad Shehadeh. "This is where Zoolz steps in and provides the home users with an easy, reliable and secure cloud software to simplify the whole process."

Cloud computing is cited, according to a research conducted by Compuware alongside Research in Action, as the highest priority for investment. 16.5% of companies claimed cloud computing to be of higher importance than mobile IT, business analytics, big data and in-memory.

The days of HDDs have long passed, said the company. Zoolz goes with the backing up of internal, external and network drives as well. Home users are not the only target audience; with the generation of photo previews of all camera photos (including RAW format support), photographers will be pleased to view all of their works of art from a centralized location on the web.

The cost calculations for restores can be complicated. Generally, the faster the restore something, the more expensive it is. With its price of $2/month, Zoolz unlimited will pose a challenge for other cloud-based plans especially with its cold storage technology that brings zero restore time to the table and thus solves such barriers. Additional advantages include the elimination of capping and no file type limitations.

Zoolz eases the whole process of cloud storage with its cold storage technology, which performs as an external HDD that will never die, crash or run out of space. Furthermore, it is fully encrypted using military grade 256-AES encryption, which means that not even Zoolz employees or the NSA can access any backed up data.