LucidLink, Started by Former DataCore Employees

Most recent company LucidLink Corp., provider of cloud backed distributed file service, has locations in San Francisco, CA, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Sofia, Bulgaria, and Melbourne, Australia.

It was founded in 2016 by two guys who were among the people building SANsymphony, the storage virtualization software of DataCore.

Peter Thompson, CEO, was at DataCore from 2004 to 2014 ending as VP of emerging and developing markets and then was and continues to be since 2015 private business consultant specializing in Japan, Asia and technology.
George Dochev, CTO, joined DataCore as part of the original team and as its first software engineer, being in the company from 1998 to 2015 and ending as director software engineering.

We found on LinkedIn 8 employees at LucidLink, that received funding of $1,600,000 in December 2016 according to crunchbase.

CTO wrote: “This Internet file system would work equally well on all OSs not just Windows and seamlessly switch between online (connected) and offline (disconnected) mode. It wouldn’t require complex configuration from IT and it would work on any desktop or mobile device. It would be fast and easy to use and integrated with the OS so that’s it’s practically invisible to the end-user. Wouldn’t that be awesome! And so the idea was born.”

The storage software vendor provides file storage as a service, transforming any cloud object store into a shared file space.

Its universal distributed file system streams data from cloud object storage and purpose built it to integrate with object storage through high latency environments, and address the source of the challenge, not the symptom. In summary, LucidLink provides the ability to mount an object store in the cloud and use it as local storage.

This file system, for distributed teams with large data sets, is for high latency environments like the Internet, and specifically as a Posix type of front end for cloud object storage.

Data streams directly from AWS S3 storage, without the need to download or synchronize.

LucidLink is a service working in conjunction with an app. The service coordinates and distributes metadata from your files stored in cloud object storage (such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Google storage, Backblaze B2, etc.).

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Advantages according to LucidLink

Increased Velocity: Instant access means no waiting to sync files. Retain workflows with seamless, simple integration.
Nothing to Deploy or Manage: No IT overhead, no physical or virtual appliances needed.
Unlimited Capacity: Because data is streamed on demand you can extend your drive with the cloud.
Cost Effective: Pay as you go with no up-front costs.
Elastic, Durable and Available: Extend all the benefits offered by object stores to your file storage.
Retain Control Over Your Data: Data is encrypted and hosted in your own account in the cloud of your choice.