Space Monkey (company)

Space Monkey
Industry
Founded2011
FoundersClint Gordon-Carroll, Alen Peacock
Headquarters
Midvale, Utah
,
United States
Key people
Clint Gordon-Carroll, Alen Peacock
Products1TB drive
Websitespacemonkey.com

Space Monkey was a cloud storage company founded by Clint Gordon-Carroll and Alen Peacock in Utah in 2011.[1][2][3]

Space Monkey was a cloud storage service that allowed a consumer to put one terabyte of data on a Space Monkey-provided hard drive located on the customer's premises. The data were then backed up on other devices across Space Monkey's user network via a distributed cloud. The service claimed to prevent data loss due to failing hardware while allowing consumers access to their files anywhere in the world via the cloud.[4][5]

In September 2014, Vivint, a home automation company, acquired Space Monkey for an undisclosed amount.[1][6]

  1. ^ a b Aaron Tillery (10 September 2014). "Smart Home Company Vivint Just Bought Cloud Storage Startup Space Monkey". Forbes. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  2. ^ Rafe Needleman (7 March 2012). "Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house". Cnet. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  3. ^ Alen Peacock (22 July 2013). "Alen Peacock: Finding that Magical Name". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  4. ^ Sam Byford (8 March 2012). "Space Monkey: Dropbox meets BitTorrent for peer-to-peer cloud storage". The Verge. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  5. ^ Anthony Ha (30 April 2015). "Space Monkey Founders Show Off Their P2P Storage System, Prepare for Kickstarter Campaign". TechCrunch. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Vivint buys Space Monkey". Enterprise Business Newspaper. 15 September 2014.