Shadow launches cloud storage service Shadow Drive — In addition to its cloud computing service

guest · Nov 23, 2022

By Romain Dillet @romaindillet - November 23, 2022

Shadow is now officially a tech company with two different products. In addition to its cloud computing service that works particularly well for games, the company is launching Shadow Drive, a cloud storage service based on Nextcloud.
Click to expand...

“It’s now been a year and a half since Octave Klaba acquired Blade with a vision: take down technological barriers and bring cloud computing power to everyone,” co-founder and deputy CEO Stéphane Héliot said at a press conference in Paris.
Octave Klaba is the founder of OVHcloud and he acquired Shadow (formerly called Blade) to save it from bankruptcy. Since then, OVHcloud has been an important partner for Shadow. All Shadow servers have been moved to OVHcloud’s data centers.
Click to expand...

After a few weeks of testing, Shadow is officially launching its cloud storage service Shadow Drive. If you’ve been following Octave Klaba’s projects, you may remember his previous attempt in the space with hubiC. It was designed as a competitor to Dropbox, Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive but it never really took off.

Shadow is hitting the reset button with Shadow Drive. This time, the company is using Nextcloud as its foundation. If you’re not familiar with Nextcloud, it’s a popular open-source online storage application that you can run on your own server.
Click to expand...

Shadow Drive is a hosted service, meaning that you don’t have to run your own server or manage anything — just like WordPress.com can manage your WordPress website for you. Users can either get a free account with 20GB of storage or pay $8.99 or €8.99 per month for 2TB of storage. After that, they can store, share and sync files so these files are accessible through a web browser, a desktop app or a mobile app.

“Shadow Drive is based around two offers, a free and a premium offering — simple,” Shadow CEO Éric Sèle said. “And we will never, ever monetize our users’ personal data and we are not advertising on our website.”
Click to expand...

A cloud computing service for gamers and businesses
As for Shadow’s main service, its cloud computing service, the company rolled out its premium plan just a few weeks ago. There are now two configurations.
By default, subscribers get the equivalent of an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080, 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage for $29.99 per month, or €29.99 in Europe. It is a Windows instance, which means you can install whatever you want, such as Steam, 3D editing software and more.

Users can add the ‘Power Upgrade’ option on top of their base subscription for another $14.99 per month (or €14.99). This time, you get an AMD EPYC 7543P CPU with 4 cores and 8 threads, 16GB of RAM and an Nvidia RTX A4500 GPU.
Click to expand...

Shadow: Shadow Drive, the cloud storage solution by SHADOW, is now available!

November 23, 2022
After a successful Soft Launch, the secured and affordable online storage solution is now accessible in 11 European territories, and will be in 2023 in North America.
Click to expand...

Log in or Sign up

Shadow launches cloud storage service Shadow Drive — In addition to its cloud computing service

guest Guest

Log in or Sign up

Shadow launches cloud storage service Shadow Drive — In addition to its cloud computing service

guest Guest

Useful Searches