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Everydisk brings post-cloud storage to everyman

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PORTLAND, USA: Five-year-old bootstrapped startup Avatron Software is launching a Kickstarter project to help develop its new software platform, Everydisk.

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Everydisk will let people easily access and interact with all their files, on any of their computers, from anywhere in the world. Everydisk is an alternative to costly and high profile cloud storage solutions that may be targets of hackers, spies, and others seeking access to our personal demographic data.

Whereas cloud solutions like Dropbox and Google Drive offer storage space on servers governed by arcane and compromising user agreements, Everydisk establishes direct, secure connections between a user's devices and the increasingly affordable desktop hard drives attached to them.

Avatron's web-based server platform maintains a registry of each user's computers. When a user logs in, they are presented with a menu of their connected devices. Once the connection is made between the user and their remote computers, no data goes through Avatron's server. User data always stays on machines directly in the user's control.

The resulting data security comes at a time when privacy consciousness is a hot mainstream issue, due in part to the revelation that the National Security Agency's PRISM program has been analyzing the data of millions of US citizens. A recent study by the Cloud Security Alliance estimates that PRISM could cost US cloud companies $35-45 billion. Forrester analyst James Staten suggests in a blog post that the damage could be as high as $180 billion.

Avatron is using Kickstarter to fund its latest project. Kickstarter is a crowdfunding service that allows people to contribute to projects they believe in. Avatron's founder, former Apple engineering manager Dave Howell, explains, "The rise of Kickstarter's crowdfunding model is an important step in a worldwide trend toward democratization of technology, and we see it as an important new way to develop the products our customers want."

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