Clearly we are moving to a User-Centric view of all this data. The historic backup/restore model of data no longer fits. Esotera offers a new view of data. Each user must only have one copy of their data distributed across the Internet cloud. The Esotera storage system stores each user file as anonymous, encrypted blocks across all available servers. These blocks are replicated three times to ensure no server failure can jeopardize data. More importantly, these blocks can only be found in the vast number space in the cloud through the use of Personal Encyption Codes (we call them PECs) that are held only by the owner of the file. Click on the image on the left to see how this looks.

Portability with Universal Access. You carry your credentials with you, either through a USB stick, Verisign SecurID token, or through codes transmitted as SMS to your cel phone. This allows you to go to any computer, laptop and eventually your PVR, microwave, stereo, etc. and privately access your view of data. You bring down your data from the cloud as you need it, change it perhaps, and return back to the cloud so that it is consistently available when you sit in front of the next Internet-ready device.

Moving into the new world of data. Your data is in a private and safe place. You don't have to perform backups, and much more importantly, you never have to learn how to perform a restore of data. Esotera moves you into this new paradigm gently. At first, you can set up 'Sync drives' on each computer you might visit. This migrates your personal files into a hierarchy of drives named after those computers. However, you can now see all of the files of each of these computers in the Esotera 'InfiniDrive' client no matter which computer your are in front of. And when one of those computers breaks down... who cares? Your data is now independent of all that hardware.

Next Generation Data Visualization. Most of us are familiar with the heirarchical view of data. Each file sits in a directory, possibly embedded in a parent directory and ulimately residing in a drive that belongs to a specific computer. The InfiniDrive client provides you with the traditional file explorer which has the tree view on the left and the list pane on the right. However, the Esotera file system is flexible enough to allow other ways to navigate through your data. Esotera offers RoomYak as an alternate data viewer.
Visualize a room rendered in 3D perspective in which you can zoom around using the mouse and keypad. Each room represents a directory. Conventional files such as documents, images, MP3 files, etc. are positioned by the owner on the walls, and 3D models decorate the floors to provide a natural look.
Directories and hence rooms are private by default in the Esotera file system, but you can elect to make them public and share them as URLs for others. Now you can have visitors who enter your rooms and interact with the objects. But there's more. As the content-creator of an object on the wall or the floor of a public room, you can attach an monetary value to your work. Now a visitor can purchase these objects for display in their own rooms, or these objects can represent real-world mechandise for sale. Click on the image to the left for a sneak peek at the RoomYak in operation.