I-drive

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i-drive (formerly idrive.com, Anuvio) was an online storage service founded by entrepreneur Jeff Bonforte in 1999. It enabled creation of online space that acted as a virtual drive for 'sideloading' â€" storing files such as MP3s collected on the Web without downloading them.

i-drive's assets were acquired by the EMC Corporation in 2002. At its height, i-drive hosted over 10 million registered users, employed 110 people, and held partnerships with MP3.com, ZDnet.com and 40 major universities. The service was rated as a "Top 5 Web Application" by CNET in 2000 and one of the "3 Top Technologies to Watch" by Fortune Magazine in 2000. The company raised over $30 million from venture capitalists such as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Infinity Ventures, Global Retail Partners, Hikari (JP), Philips (NL), EMC, and Partners Group (CH).

References

*I-Drive Spruces Up Web Storage
*MP3.com and I-Drive.com Join Forces to Store and Manage MP3 Files

External links

*Cached images of i-drive.com from Archive.org