Another Stealthy Storage Start-Up: Swedish ByteActive

Based in Stockholm, Sweden and founded in 2006, ByteActive AB got financial funding in in November 2008 from main investors Sting Capital, Innovationsbron, and Stoaf.

 
CEO is Anders Tormod.

With
a dozen of employees, ByteActive is working on a backup and recovery
software, BaQup, using a patented technology to store photos, documents
and music, and to automate backup through Internet, LAN and local
storage devices. It combines source-level de-dupe with bit-level
compression and an encryption, ‘from source to data at rest’.

Its
products include BaQup professional that protects company’s critical
information and BaQup hosting solutions enabling companies, consumers,
distributors and storage providers to store and protect data, as well as
offers a solution for data backup and recovery. These solutions give
enterprises and organizations secure access to cloud storage services
from their selected service providers. It is also supposed to optimized
life cycle management of information by automating the use of data
classification.