dataSentinel gives users control

Section: Buy Local
The Independent

The future is here and Newfoundland is leading the way, says Elizabeth Coleman of dataSentinel.

Company founder, Tom Chalker, worked for three years on the revolutionary concept, Coleman explains, and they are delighted to have a chance to bring the new technology to the world market.

At the centre of the revolution is the patent-pending InfiniDrive ™ technology. It replaces the "hassle and drudgery" of performing regular backups on all of the computers that contain your data with a new paradigm in which your data is distributed as tiny encrypted blocks across hundreds of machines on the Internet.

Each user carries a small USB stick, about the size of you thumb, which contains the 'keys' that allow the pieces of your files to be located on the Internet and reassembled back into your data. A 'dataGuy' from dataSentinel can visit you and train users on the use of the technology in minutes, and the cost of the new technology is sure to attract attention. At ten dollars per month per GB of compressed storage, Coleman says that business is booming. "The response has been incredible as the possibilities are realized," she says.

No longer will you be tied to your laptop or PC, she says.

"You can set things up so your data is no longer on your hard drive so if you lose your laptop to theft or fire all you have lost is a piece of equipment - there is nothing sensitive and nothing critical lost," she says.

The benefit is that nothing is lost or put at risk. That alone is invaluable, she says.

"The fear is not really, wow, I lost my laptop, but that, oh no, the data is gone and who knows into what hands," she explains.

dataSentinel will change the way computers are used and data is stored forever. Coleman says that as long as you have an Internet connection you have access to your data and so you can run your business from any computer at all.

Another bragging point for dataSentinel is that this is a Newfoundland venture. There are so many "brilliant, technically-advanced" minds in Newfoundland and Labrador, Coleman says, and we are just starting to tap into those resources.

"We can be a part of the creation of our own 'Silicon Valley' right here in this province," she laughs.

Coleman says dataSentinel plans to maintain a huge presence here at home while doing business on a global market. "Our objective is to hire from here, keep people here, and attract others to return home to help grow our business," she says. Coleman says.

dataSentinel takes the worry and the effort away, and gives clients comfort, safety and security. The overwhelming response, she says, shows that this technology is just what businesses have been waiting for.

"Before we came on the market the computer industry had been totally 'machine-centric' where the equipment owned your data, but we give users control: a 'user-centric' view of their data where the computer becomes just a commodity-any machine, anywhere will do."