IDrive ( formerly known as IBackup, is an automated cloud backup cross-platform application that dates back to 1995 when it was created by Pro Softnet Corporation as one of the very first services in the online backup field.

February saw the launch of IDrive Docs, a document processor with Microsoft Office compatibility, and in January IDrive introduced support for Office 365 Exchange mailboxes.We earn commissions using affiliate links.

IDrive People follows hot on the heels of the launch of Web Viewer, a new feature of the company’s RemotePC remote access app that lets subscribers log into a computer with no more than an internet connection and browser. The only prerequisite: Your photos have to be in JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, BMP, or NEF formats. In the same tab, you’ll be able to share photos to an external app, or search for pics of someone (or multiple someones) by tapping out their name in the search box. “You most likely have plenty of pictures of these people saved on your phone that you’re already backing up with IDrive, and now we’re making it easy for you to organize, search for, and locate specific photos.”Īuto-categorized photos will appear in the new People section of the IDrive mobile app, where they’ll populate galleries with thumbnail previews of every detected face. “Backing up your precious photos of family and friends is hugely important in order to make sure that those memories last forever,” IDrive told VentureBeat in an email. But it claims it’s one of the first out of the gate with machine learning-powered sorting. In these ways, IDrive competes with services like Backblaze, Carbonite, BigMIND, Code 42’s CrashPlan, and EMC’s Mozy.

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