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IDrive Inc. is a privately held technology company specializing in cloud storage, online backup, remote access, and data compliance services. The company was originally founded as Pro Softnet Corporation in 1995 by CEO Raghu Kulkarni. In 2013, Pro Softnet rebranded to IDrive Inc. to better reflect its flagship product, IDrive.

The company's core services include IDrive® for online backup, RemotePC™ for remote access, and IDrive® e2, an S3-compatible object storage solution. It serves a wide range of customers, from individual consumers to small and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises. The business model is primarily subscription-based, with various plans catering to different storage needs and numbers of users or computers. For instance, IDrive offers plans for teams and businesses that scale based on storage capacity and include support for an unlimited number of devices. The company also generates revenue through cloud-to-cloud backup add-ons for services like Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.

IDrive's products allow users to back up data from multiple devices, including PCs, Macs, Linux machines, and mobile devices, into a single account. Key features include automated and incremental backups, end-to-end 256-bit AES encryption with an optional private key, file syncing, and the ability to physically retrieve large amounts of data via shipped hard drives. The company serves over 5 million customers worldwide, protecting more than 500 petabytes of data.

Keywords: cloud backup, online backup, remote access, cloud storage, data compliance, file sharing, data protection, object storage, S3 compatible storage, server backup, mobile backup, multi-device backup, AES-256 encryption, private key encryption, hybrid backup, file syncing, disaster recovery, IDrive, RemotePC, IBackup