Promise Technology: Apollo Cloud Gets New Features, Expands Distribution

Apollo Cloud from Promise Technology Inc.‘s first consumer product, brings digital content management ability to users of the personal cloud device and app with a free software upgrade that includes Time Machine support, among other features.

Apollo Cloud allows families, small business, and work groups to store and share data from all their devices in a personal cloud that they own outright.

Free upgrade to new features
With the software upgrade, Apollo owners and members can use their Apollo Cloud as a Time Machine disk to store data from iPhones, iPads and Macs securely and privately.

The software upgrade includes other new features available to all users:

• Search and sorting functions

• Manage multiple Apollo Cloud devices with a single account

• Password encryption of shared public links to data stored on Apollo Cloud

Expanded distribution worldwide
Apollo Cloud can be purchased at Apple stores worldwide and online, and is also available through company’s channel partners.

In North America, it is also available through B&H Photo & Electronics, a large photo and video equipment store in the U.S.

With Apollo Cloud, users get 4TB to manage, store, and share data from wherever they happen to be, via iOS and other mobile devices, Macs and PCs. It can be used by a group of up to ten members, each with full sharing and privacy control over their own digital files. Each Apollo Cloud can save and share more than 440 hours of HD video, 220,000 photos and half a million songs, with no recurring fees. See video.

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Apollo Cloud features:

• Small device, capacity – 4TB of storage space with no recurring fees.

• Easy to use – Set up takes only minutes, and Apollo is accessible from any device with the Apollo Cloud App.

• Easy to share – An owner can invite up to nine members to share the Apollo Cloud. Each member of a group gets a private space and full sharing control over their own files.

• No limits – Apollo Cloud lets users store and share files, regardless of size or resolution. Each member can decide what to share, and with whom.

• Private and secure – All data is off the Web, safe and secure on a personal cloud, with all transactions encrypted.

• Apple Time Machine support – Capacity makes backing up and restoring data easy and fast, from anywhere, without downloading separate software.

• Data management simple – Users can manage multiple Apollo Cloud devices with one single account.

“Promise Technology is eager to listen to customers and base new product enhancements on their voice, and offer users a personal Cloud solution that is easier, safer to store and share photos, videos and files with family, friends, and colleagues,” said James Lee, CEO, Promise. “Apollo Cloud solves the problem of storage, access, and file sharing without having to sacrifice privacy and security, with a convenient, affordable and easy-to-use device and app that is the perfect companion to every smartphone, tablet, Mac and PC user today.“