Overview

Dmailer specialized in portable backup

Backup

In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup....

 and synchronization

Synchronization

Synchronization is timekeeping which requires the coordination of events to operate a system in unison. The familiar conductor of an orchestra serves to keep the orchestra in time....

 software solutions for a range of mobile devices, including USB flash drives, memory cards, external hard disk drives, MP3 players, embedded phone memories, SIM cards and flash-based memory cards for mobile phones.

Serving both consumers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Dmailer designed, developed, manufactured and marketed portable backup and synchronization software solutions. Dmailer software products are bundled with SanDisk

SanDisk

SanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. It was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory...

, Western Digital

Western Digital

Western Digital Corporation is one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers in the world. It has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970 by Alvin B...

, Verbatim Corporation

Verbatim Corporation

Verbatim Americas, LLC is a US company that markets storage media and flash memory products. It is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation of Japan and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.-History:...

, Imation

Imation

Imation is a US based multi-national technology corporation that designs, manufactures and sells recordable data storage media, consumer electronics products and accessories.The company is a 1996 spin off of 3M and is headquartered in Oakdale, Minnesota...

, LaCie

LaCie

LaCie is a computer hardware company specializing in external hard drives, RAID arrays, optical drives, Flash Drives, and computer monitors. The company markets several lines of hard drives with a capacity of up to many terabytes of data, with a choice of interfaces...

, Lexar

Lexar

Lexar Media, Inc. is an American manufacturer of digital media products based in Fremont, CA. Products manufactured by Lexar include SD cards, Memory Sticks, keydrives, CompactFlash cards and card readers. Lexar's Memory Stick Duos also have versions adapted for the PSP which includes a version of...

 and other leading manufacturers’ portable storage products worldwide. Dmailer licensed its patent-pending synchronization engine technology to a number of industry-leading companies. The company's flagship product, Dmailer Sync, was available in 19 languages and was sold in more than 130 countries worldwide with more than 50 million copies shipped to date.

Dmailer’s data backup software supports both local and online backup. On March 23, 2010, Dmailer launched a free version of its backup software (Dmailer Backup v3). The software application allows users to perform live backup and online backup of any storage device, as well as to back up PC

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

 and Mac

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 platforms locally – via USB drive, CD, mobile device or external hard drive. No software installation is needed to restore data.

It included 2GB of free storage online through Dmailer Online, an online storage service that backed up secure copies to a remote server for access from any computer. Dmailer Backup v3 restores data to its original location or elsewhere and also performs customized backup.

All product customer support, the Dmailer Sync Product and Dmailer Online service are discontinued. Some Dmailer assets have been bought by [Gemalto] and are planned to be included in the [Yuwaa] service.

Company History

Established in 2001, Dmailer’s head office was located in Marseille

Marseille

Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 with a regional American office in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

 and a local presence in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The company was founded in December 2001 by Brigitte Léonardi, winner of the "National Contest for Assistance to the Creation of Innovative Technology Companies", awarded by the French Ministry for Research (ANVAR). Dmailer company has sunk in 2010 due to a bankruptcy and all of its employees were fired.

Management team

Dmailer’s executives represented nine nationalities and 10 spoken languages and international business experience spanning America (North & South), Europe and Asia Pacific.

• Lucas Leonardi (CEO)
• Brigitte Leonardi (Founder)
• Philippe Leca (CFO)
• Eric Dumas (CTO)
• Anthony Reyes (EVP Marketing & Services)
• Anthony Gianastasio (Product Line Manager)

Investors

Dmailer was a privately-held software company that received venture capital funding from two sources in December 2007: BNP Paribas Private Equity and Alto Invest ($3.7 million). The funding provided supports the company’s ongoing R&D program, geared towards delivering efficient and productive software solutions to its customers.

Products

Dmailer offers branded backup

Backup

In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup....

, synchronization

Synchronization

Synchronization is timekeeping which requires the coordination of events to operate a system in unison. The familiar conductor of an orchestra serves to keep the orchestra in time....

 and multimedia

Multimedia

Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...

 software (see software listings below). The patent-pending synchronization engine is found in solutions sold by global manufacturers of USB flash drives, memory cards, and external hard disk drives.

• Dmailer Sync
• Dmailer Backup
  Dmailer Backup
  Dmailer Backup, developed by Dmailer, is a backup software for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems that can back up and restore all of the data of the computer...
  
  
• Dmailer Online
• mediamove

Product History

Dmailer first launched an email management application in 2001. In French, “demêler” means “To sort, to organize” and it was precisely the goal of the first software of the company: help people manage their emails. “Demeler” was then called “Dmailer” to sound more like an English name.

In 2004, the company developed its synchronization software called “Dmailer Sync” that let the users Synchronize their PC to a portable USB drive. In the same year Dmailer made its first OEM deal with SanDisk

SanDisk

SanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. It was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory...

 and developed a product called “Cruzer Sync” Which is basically Dmailer Sync but branded for SanDisk

SanDisk

SanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. It was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory...

 cruzer drives.

In 2006 Dmailer started shipping Dmailer Sync along with Western Digital hard drives branded as WD Sync. In 2007 & 2008 Dmailer sync was shipped along with Lacie

LaCie

LaCie is a computer hardware company specializing in external hard drives, RAID arrays, optical drives, Flash Drives, and computer monitors. The company markets several lines of hard drives with a capacity of up to many terabytes of data, with a choice of interfaces...

 and Lexar

Lexar

Lexar Media, Inc. is an American manufacturer of digital media products based in Fremont, CA. Products manufactured by Lexar include SD cards, Memory Sticks, keydrives, CompactFlash cards and card readers. Lexar's Memory Stick Duos also have versions adapted for the PSP which includes a version of...

 drives as “Lacie sync” and “Lexar sync” respectively.

In 2009, Dmailer came out with its backup software called “Dmailer Backup” which is shipped with Maxell

Maxell

, commonly known as Maxell, is a Japanese company which manufactures consumer electronics. The company's notable products are batteries -- the company's name is a contraction of "maximum capacity dry cell" -- and recording media, including audio cassettes and blank VHS tapes, and recordable optical...

, EdgeTech, Verbatim

Verbatim

Verbatim may refer to:*Verbatim Latin - the term "Verbatim" means, in a UK legal context: "word by word, exactly"*Verbatim Corporation, a US company that markets storage media and flash memory*Verbatim , a magazine edited by Erin McKean...

 and Lexar

Lexar

Lexar Media, Inc. is an American manufacturer of digital media products based in Fremont, CA. Products manufactured by Lexar include SD cards, Memory Sticks, keydrives, CompactFlash cards and card readers. Lexar's Memory Stick Duos also have versions adapted for the PSP which includes a version of...

 portable drives. Dmailer Backup is also available for free as a standalone product for customers.

Both Dmailer Sync and Dmailer Backup are coupled with “Dmailer Online”, an online storage service that lets the user backup their files online in secure servers for anytime and anywhere access.

In 2009, Dmailer also launched a product called “MediaMove”. It is a media management software that lets the user preview media files, move them from a phone, camera or mp3 to a PC

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

 or Mac

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 and share them with friends or upload them to online media-sharing services.

All Dmailer’s products are powered by “Dmailer Engine”. Dmailer Engines are developed as a result of more than 8 years of research and development. Three engines are available today.

• Dmailer Sync Engine: This enables your application to synchronize its data with Outlook, Exchange server or other PIM client.
• Dmailer Backup Engine: A file backup engine enabling developers to plug their application into a complete local or remote backup system through its backup API.
• Dmailer App Engine: This engine integrates all of the key basic features you will want built into your application such as a software update mechanism, marketing communication channel, user registration system or license management platform.

Product Reviews

• On April 1, 2010 “Addictive Tips” reviewed Dmailer Backup software and called it a “Kick-Ass backup tool”
• On April 7, 2010 “SmashingApps” called Dmailer backup as an alternative to DropBox
• On May 7, 2010 Jon Jacobi from PC World reviewed Dmailer Backup and said that it is far friendlier and well worth a look

User Base

Serving both consumers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Dmailer designs, develops, manufactures and markets portable backup and synchronization software solutions. Dmailer products are bundled with SanDisk

SanDisk

SanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. It was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory...

, Western Digital

Western Digital

Western Digital Corporation is one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers in the world. It has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970 by Alvin B...

, Verbatim Corporation

Verbatim Corporation

Verbatim Americas, LLC is a US company that markets storage media and flash memory products. It is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation of Japan and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.-History:...

, Imation

Imation

Imation is a US based multi-national technology corporation that designs, manufactures and sells recordable data storage media, consumer electronics products and accessories.The company is a 1996 spin off of 3M and is headquartered in Oakdale, Minnesota...

, LaCie

LaCie

LaCie is a computer hardware company specializing in external hard drives, RAID arrays, optical drives, Flash Drives, and computer monitors. The company markets several lines of hard drives with a capacity of up to many terabytes of data, with a choice of interfaces...

, Lexar

Lexar

Lexar Media, Inc. is an American manufacturer of digital media products based in Fremont, CA. Products manufactured by Lexar include SD cards, Memory Sticks, keydrives, CompactFlash cards and card readers. Lexar's Memory Stick Duos also have versions adapted for the PSP which includes a version of...

 and other manufacturers of portable storage products worldwide. Dmailer licenses its patent-pending synchronization engine technology to a number of companies.

Features

Dmailer Backup:

• Custom configuration: backup by file type, size and date
• Manage multiple backups, maintain log files and view backup summaries
• Password protection and AES 128 bit encryption
• Automatic versioning controls
• File selection for automatic and continuous backup
• 2GB of free online storage
• Online folder sharing
• Supports Windows XP, Vista and 7
• Supports Mac
  Macintosh
  The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
  
  OS 10.5 and 10.6
• Available in 19 languages
• 600 pixel vertical resolutions for Netbooks

Dmailer Sync:

• Available in 19 languages
• No installation required
• Allows the ability to create multiple profiles
• Skype Integration
• Mobile email client solutions
• Outlook/data synchronization software
• Email backup/online storage service

Awards

Dmailer received Deloitte’s Technology Fast50 in France and Technology Fast500 EMEA awards in 2008 and 2009, respectively.

External links

• Official website
• Company site “Dmailer backup” – Backup Software
• Company Site “Dmailer Online” – Online storage service
• Company site “Dmailer Sync” – Synchronization software
• Dmailer's New Backup Solution Offers Greater Levels of Data Protection for Local and Online Storage (posted September 7, 2009)
• Dmailer Simplifies Portable Office Experience with Latest Dmailer Sync Software Release (posted October 27, 2009)
• SearchDataBackup.com: Dmailer Announces New Backup Software - Dmailer Backup v2.9 (posted January 6, 2010)
• Storagenewsletter.com: Dmailer Showcases mediamove (posted February 24, 2010)
• Dmailer Introduces Free Version of Award-Winning Backup Software; Frees Consumers and Business Professionals From Limits of Automated Data Backup (posted March 23, 2010)
• SearchDataBackup.com: Online Backup Storage Provider Dmailer Gives Away Free Local Data Backup (posted March 25, 2010)