Drop.io Migrates to Cloud

Drop.io has moved 100 percent of its computing infrastructure into ‘The Cloud’ by migrating all of its applications onto virtual computers through Amazon Web Services.

According to CEO Sam Lessin, “The move to cloud computing enables drop.io to quickly manage the demand associated with our growth and feature development. With the flip of a switch, we can accommodate the needs associated with new features, add-ons and applications, without any physical infrastructure constraints. This is an entirely new frontier in web architecture and we are excited about taking our trailblazing spirit to new parts of our business.”

Drop.io offers a private way to share digital content through unique, user-created and controlled sharing points called ‘drops’. It promotes online private sharing through a variety of convenient inputs, outputs and points of access including: Web, phone, email, mobile, RSS, Twitter, Facebook, mms and fax. In short, ‘drops’ are non-searchable and non-networked, allowing users to share what they want, with whom they want and how they want.

The company sees its move into ‘The Cloud’ as an important game-changing move, which will allow drop.io incredible flexibility and nimbleness as it expands its capabilities, while being less burdened with managing its own growing IT needs. Moreover, cloud computing will allow drop.io to be more time efficient, in that it will focus solely on what it does best – provide a simple, private online sharing platform for consumers, organizations and small to mid-sized businesses, while it expands applications.

Founded by young, aggressive problem-solving entrepreneurs, who have an inherent understanding of the online marketplace demands and Web 2.0 trends, drop.io was developed in recognition of the growing demand from consumers, organizations and small-medium sized businesses, for privacy as it relates to the online sharing of content.

Adds Lessin, “Ultimately, drop.io provides thousands of different uses for thousands of different people with the necessary tools to simply and privately share content online. Moving our infrastructure to ‘The Cloud’ allows us to work faster and more efficiently as we can better control the resources we consume and fit them into any application we want.”