Increase your iPhone Hard Drive by 2GB for Free

Coming back to my resent blog series of interesting companies that recently raised venture capital funding, this week my blog will cover ZumoDrive and their cool cloud storage solution. In the middle of December 2009, the company received $1.5 million venture capital funding from Sherpalo Ventures, among other venture capital investors, to support its product development. ZumoDrive provides a really interesting and simple cloud storage solution, and the best part of it is that you can use the 1GB storage for free. Actually, by following the steps in the ZumoDrive tutorial, called “Dojo”, you will quickly double your space to 2GB.

To get started you need to install a small program on your PC/Mac that will create a virtual drive in your system. This drive allows users to easily drag and drop files, create and manage folders, link folders from their actual hard drives, and easily share files with other people. The program synchronizes the content of this virtual drive automatically and makes it easily accessible on other devices, such as your laptop or iPhone. A really neat feature of ZumoDrive is that it cashes the most demanded files to your computer, allows you to work with them off-line, and once internet connection is available it automatically updates them on your cloud storage. 
A drawback for the solution is that it does not allow integration with Google Docs (like a competitor Gladinet) or other cloud storage solutions. Also, it cannot be used without installing the software, which limits the upload devices to your own computers. Regardless, ZumoDrive is fast, simple, and if you are an iPhone user, it will add an awesome feature to your mobile device, allowing you to view your files and pictures, and stream your uploaded music without wasting your precious mobile space.