Dropsuite

Dropsuite Limited (formerly branded as Dropmysite)[2] is a global cloud software platform founded in 2011 that provides cloud backup, archiving and recovery solutions based in Singapore. They are a public company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:DSE).[3]

Dropsuite Limited
Public
Traded asASX: DSE
IndustryInformation technology
Founded2012
Headquarters
Singapore
Key people
John Fearon, Founder[1]
Ron Hart, CTO[1]
Charif El-Ansari, CEO[1]
Ridley Ruth, COO
Udit Berlia, Business Development Manager[1]
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

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 include GDPR Responder, eDiscovery, Insights BI and Ransomware Protection.[4]


Corporation

Company History

Dropsuite began development under the name Dropmysite in September 2011 when John Fearon’s business website needed a backup solution and he couldn’t find a service that met his needs.[5] Fearon raised $300,000 in a first round of funding on a Singaporean television show called Angel’s Gate.[6] In 2012, he created an email backup service[7] called Dropmyemail.[8] On October 31, 2013, Charif Elansari took over as CEO.[9] In 2014, a smartphone backup service called Dropmymobile was launched.[10]

Dropmysite has local offices in the US, Singapore, Japan and India.[11] 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.[11] Dropmysite has also announced partnerships with GMO Cloud[12] and paperboy[13] in Japan. On October 3, 2015, GoDaddy launched a cloud backup service for websites powered by Dropmysite.[14]

In 2016, the company rebranded under the name Dropsuite.[15] On Dec 29, 2016, the company went public on the Australia Securities Exchange via a backdoor listing.[16] In 2017, Dropsuite entered into a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro.[17] On October 22, 2018, Dropsuite entered into a cloud distribution partnership with Pax8.[4] 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.[18]

Management team

The Management team consists of people of different continents including Asia, Africa and North America and Australia.

  • Chairman - Theo Hnarakis[19]
  • Non-Executive Director - Bruce Tonkin
  • CTO - Ron Hart[20]
  • CEO - Charif El-Ansari[21]
  • COO - Ridley Ruth[22]

Investors

Dropsuite Limited (DSE:ASX) is a publicly listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange.[3] 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.[23]

Technology

The backend of Dropmysite was originally based on Amazon AWS Infrastructure.[5] 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.[24] All user data is stored online and there are no user agents to download and install.

Dropsuite’s cloud services protect user’s 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.[4]

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References
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  23. "Dropmyemail Passes Half Million Users, is Working on Second Round of Funding". TechinAsia.
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