Company:Dropsuite

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Dropsuite Limited
TypePublic
ASX: DSE
IndustryInformation technology
Founded2012
Headquarters
Singapore
Products
  • Backup for Office 365
  • Backup for G Suite Gmail
  • Backup for Hosted Exchange
  • Backup for IMAP-POP
  • Backup for Open-Xchange
  • Email Archiving
  • Website Backup
Websitewww.dropsuite.com

Dropsuite Limited (formerly branded as Dropmysite)[1] is a software platform founded in 2011 that provides cloud backup, archiving and recovery services based in Singapore. They are a public company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:DSE).[2]

Originally, Dropsuite only provided website backup services, but expanded services to include Cloud Backup for Office 365, Cloud Backup for G Suite Gmail, and email archiving. Additional solutions[buzzword] include GDPR Responder, eDiscovery, Insights BI and Ransomware Protection.[3]

Corporation

Company History

Dropsuite 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

The 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
  • CTO—Ron Hart
  • CEO—⁣Charif El-Ansari[19]
  • COO—⁣Ridley Ruth[20]

Investors

Dropsuite 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.[21]

Technology

The 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.[22] 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

  1. ↑ Dropsuite. "Dropmysite Rebrands To Dropsuite, Targets Rapid Global Expansion". https://www.prlog.org/12540071-dropmysite-rebrands-to-dropsuite-targets-rapid-global-expansion.html. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Share Price & Information - ASX". https://www.asx.com.au/asx/share-price-research/company/DSE. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Dropsuite and Pax8 Empower MSPs to Backup to the Future" (in en). 2018-10-22. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181022005016/en/Dropsuite-Pax8-Empower-MSPs-Backup-Future. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "John Fearon: The South African start-up Entrepreneur making waves in Asia". Technology Africa. 30 March 2012. http://technology-africa.com/john-fearon-the-south-african-start-up-entreprenuer-making-waves-in-asia.html. Retrieved 2 March 2013. 
  5. ↑ Mahtani, Shibani (2012-04-20). "Singapore Start-Up Cashes In on Saving Emails" (in en-US). https://blogs.wsj.com/indonesiarealtime/2012/04/20/singapore-start-up-cashes-in-on-saving-emails/. 
  6. ↑ Press Release, "And the DEMO Asia 2012 awards go to...", 2 March 2012
  7. ↑ "Backup Your Email With DropmyEmail : 650K Users In 2 Months, 20% From India". Pluggd.in. Archived from the original on 2013-02-18. https://archive.today/20130218041942/http://www.pluggd.in/backup-email-for-free-on-dropmyemail-297/. 
  8. ↑ "Dropmysite Appoints Former Google EMEA Exec Head as CEO" (in en-US). 2013-10-31. https://www.channelfutures.com/cloud-2/dropmysite-appoints-former-google-emea-exec-head-as-ceo. 
  9. ↑ Faiz, Faiz A. (2014-10-07). "This App Stops You From Becoming An Instant Celebrity" (in en-US). https://vulcanpost.com/42611/dropmymobile/. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Singapore website targets Latin America". Investvine.com. 2013-03-04. http://investvine.com/singapore-website-targets-latin-america/. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  11. ↑ "The full-scale entry into Japan for Dropmysite through partnership with GMO Cloud through cloud backup services". CNET Japan. http://japan.cnet.com/news/service/35026887/?ref=rss. 
  12. ↑ "Lollipop adopt technology from Singapore start-up, "Dropmysite"". TechCrunch Japan. http://jp.techcrunch.com/2013/11/21/dropmysite-announced-partership-with-pepabo/. 
  13. ↑ "GoDaddy Launches Cloud Backup Service Powered by Dropmysite" (in en-US). 2015-10-03. https://hostingjournalist.com/cloud-hosting/godaddy-launches-cloud-backup-service-powered-by-dropmysite/. 
  14. ↑ Dropsuite. "Dropmysite Rebrands To Dropsuite, Targets Rapid Global Expansion". https://www.prlog.org/12540071-dropmysite-rebrands-to-dropsuite-targets-rapid-global-expansion.html. 
  15. ↑ Pash, Chris (2016-12-29). "Singapore's Dropsuite debuts in backdoor ASX listing" (in en). https://www.businessinsider.com.au/singapores-dropsuite-debuts-in-backdoor-asx-listing-2016-12. 
  16. ↑ "Dropsuite expands U.S. cloud marketplace partnership with Ingram Micro" (in en). 2017-08-03. https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/181890/dropsuite-expands-us-cloud-marketplace-partnership-with-ingram-micro-181890.html. 
  17. ↑ "DSD Europe signe un partenariat avec Dropsuite Limited" (in fr). http://www.globalsecuritymag.fr/DSD-Europe-signe-un-partenariat,20190212,84420.html. 
  18. ↑ "Sky News Interview with Theo Hnarakis". https://dropsuite.com/sky-news-interview-theo-hnarakis/. 
  19. ↑ "Dropmysite gets new CEO, to launch smartphone backup service Dropmymobile". TechinAsia. http://www.techinasia.com/dropmysite-ceo-launch-smartphone-backup-service-dropmymobile/. 
  20. ↑ "Industry backup leader, Dropmysite, hires Ex-GM of CloudFlare as COO". Dropmysite. http://blog.dropmyemail.com/2014/08/26/industry-backup-leader-dropmysite-hires-ex-gm-of-cloudflare-as-coo/. 
  21. ↑ "Dropmyemail Passes Half Million Users, is Working on Second Round of Funding". TechinAsia. http://www.techinasia.com/dropmyemail-second-round-funding-coming-soon/. 
  22. ↑ "Dropsuite's AWS Data Center in Canada". https://dropsuite.com/aws-data-center-in-canada/. 



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