ZumoDrive – Cloud storage for iPhone and Computers

There are several applications out there that sync files and folders between your systems, allow you to share them with friends and be used as a backup. I have reviewed one such service called Dropbox. There is a new application that provides all these features and wins by providing few extra goodies that you haven’t seen in any other application before. It’s called ZumoDrive.

ZumoDrive is basically a “cloud storage” solution that allows you to take your files, music and photos wherever you go. ZumoDrive installs a new virtual drive on your system where you can just drag and drop the files to store them in the cloud. But the part where it excels over the competition is that it doesn’t store all the data on your system. If you have used sync services before, you know that all the files that you sync are copied to every system you sync with. It is useful but wastes lot of space on each system. What if you don’t have enough space on one of your systems to sync all the files but want to access few of them ?

ZumoDrive addresses this problem by storing only few recently accessed / frequently accessed files on your local storage. All the files that you store on ZumoDrive are still accessible though they are not stored locally. When you try to access a file that is not stored locally, it streams the file to your system and from then on, it will be stored locally.

You can set how much of disk space you want to use for ZumoDrive on each of your systems. ZumoDrive uses this space to cache those files that you use most. If you are running out of storage space on one of your systems, reduce the amount of caching. If you want to access the files fast on any other system and have enough space, you can always store all the files locally.

You can share the files in your ZumoDrive with friends and it serves as a cloud backup for all the files.

Another very important use for ZumoDrive is the mobile version. There is an iPhone app (application for other mobile phones are coming soon) that you can use to access all your files. This opens up several usage scenarios. If you have an 8GB or 16GB iPhone and can’t store all of your photos / music on it, store them on ZumoDrive and access them on the fly. This makes the amount of storage available on iPhone irrelevant.

This application went public recently and I think it has a lot of potential. Test drive it today for free. It provides 1GB free space and you can always buy extra storage if you need.