Dropsuite Limited (formerly branded as Dropmysite)[1] is a software platform founded in 2011 that provides cloud backup, archiving and recovery services headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with offices and remote staff throughout the world. They are a public company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:DSE).[2]
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| Company type | Public |
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| ASX: DSE | |
| Industry | Information technology |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Melbourne , Australia |
| Products |
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| Website | www |
Originally, Dropsuite only provided website backup services, but expanded services to include Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365, Cloud Backup for G Suite Gmail, email archiving, QuickBooks Online backup, and GovCloud backup and archiving. Additional products include GDPR Responder, eDiscovery, Insights BI and Ransomware Protection.[3]
Corporation
editCompany History
editDropsuite began development under the name Dropmysite in September 2011 when John Fearon’s business website needed a backup solution[buzzword] and he couldn’t find a service that met his needs.[4] Fearon raised $300,000 in a first round of funding on a Singaporean television show called Angel’s Gate.[5] In 2012, he created an email backup service[6] called Dropmyemail.[7] On October 31, 2013, Charif Elansari took over as CEO.[8] In 2014, a smartphone backup service called Dropmymobile was launched.[9]
Dropmysite has local offices in the US, Singapore, Japan and India.[10] It has entered into partnership with Xpress Hosting, a web-hosting company in Mexico for getting access to 100,000 customers and 500,000 domains.[10] Dropmysite has also announced partnerships with GMO Cloud[11] and paperboy[12] in Japan. On October 3, 2015, GoDaddy launched a cloud backup service for websites powered by Dropmysite.[13]
In 2016, the company rebranded under the name Dropsuite.[14] On Dec 29, 2016, the company went public on the Australia Securities Exchange via a backdoor listing.[15] In 2017, Dropsuite entered into a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro.[16] On October 22, 2018, Dropsuite entered into a cloud distribution partnership with Pax8.[3] In 2019, DSD Europe announced a partnership with Dropsuite and is adding Dropsuite’s Microsoft Office 365 Cloud backup and email backup to their cloud backup services.[17]
Management team
editThe management team consists of people of different continents including Asia, Africa, and North America and Australia.
- Chairman—Theo Hnarakis[18]
- Non-Executive Director—Bruce Tonkin
- CEO—Charif El-Ansari[19]
- CTO—Manoj Kalyanaraman
- CFO—Bill Kyriacou
- CPO—Mark Kirstein
- SVP, Sales and Marketing—Eric Roach
Investors
editDropsuite Limited (ASX:DSE) is a publicly listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange.[2] Originally, Dropmysite is a privately held technology startup that received seed funding for from Crystal Horse Investments, Stanley Street Labs and a few angel investors.[20]
Technology
editThe backend of Dropmysite was originally based on Amazon AWS Infrastructure.[4] Dropsuite provides data backup support to many country-locations in The Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It utilizes Amazon Web Services data center support to ensure that data remains within country borders, if needed.[21] All user data is stored online and there are no user agents to download and install.
Dropsuite's cloud services protect users' information with military-grade 256-bit advanced encryption, allow legal grade email archiving and are compatible with Microsoft Office 365 and, G Suite Gmail, Hosted Exchange, Open-Xchange and most IMAP/POP email servers.[3]
References
edit- ^ Dropsuite. "Dropmysite Rebrands To Dropsuite, Targets Rapid Global Expansion". PRLog. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
- ^ a b "Share Price & Information - ASX". www.asx.com.au. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ^ a b c "Dropsuite and Pax8 Empower MSPs to Backup to the Future". www.businesswire.com. 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ^ a b "John Fearon: The South African start-up Entrepreneur making waves in Asia". Technology Africa. 30 March 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ^ Mahtani, Shibani (2012-04-20). "Singapore Start-Up Cashes In on Saving Emails". WSJ. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ^ Press Release, "And the DEMO Asia 2012 awards go to...", 2 March 2012 Archived May 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Backup Your Email With DropmyEmail : 650K Users In 2 Months, 20% From India". Pluggd.in. Archived from the original on 2013-02-18.
- ^ "Dropmysite Appoints Former Google EMEA Exec Head as CEO". Channel Futures. 2013-10-31. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ^ Faiz, Faiz A. (2014-10-07). "This App Stops You From Becoming An Instant Celebrity". Vulcan Post. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ^ a b "Singapore website targets Latin America". Investvine.com. 2013-03-04. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
- ^ "The full-scale entry into Japan for Dropmysite through partnership with GMO Cloud through cloud backup services". CNET Japan.
- ^ "Lollipop adopt technology from Singapore start-up, "Dropmysite"". TechCrunch Japan.
- ^ "GoDaddy Launches Cloud Backup Service Powered by Dropmysite". Hosting Journalist.com. 2015-10-03. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ^ Dropsuite. "Dropmysite Rebrands To Dropsuite, Targets Rapid Global Expansion". PRLog. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ^ Pash, Chris (2016-12-29). "Singapore's Dropsuite debuts in backdoor ASX listing". Business Insider Australia. Archived from the original on December 30, 2016. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ^ "Dropsuite expands U.S. cloud marketplace partnership with Ingram Micro". Proactiveinvestors UK. 2017-08-03. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ^ "DSD Europe signe un partenariat avec Dropsuite Limited". Global Security Mag Online (in French). Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ^ "Sky News Interview with Theo Hnarakis". Retrieved February 22, 2019.
- ^ "Dropmysite gets new CEO, to launch smartphone backup service Dropmymobile". TechinAsia.
- ^ "Dropmyemail Passes Half Million Users, is Working on Second Round of Funding". TechinAsia.
- ^ "Dropsuite's AWS Data Center in Canada". Retrieved February 22, 2019.