Qwant, Xaphir, Lilo, Exalead… In a world where Google reigns supreme, daring French entrepreneurs had the nerve to launch alternative search engines on the web. Alain Bélut is challenging another Web juggernaut: WeTransfer, the king of online file transfers. This Montpellier resident, boss of MP Production, an IT and business consulting company in digital marketing, created Transgo.io. This platform allows you to exchange large files in just a few clicks, like the giant WeTransfer, without unnecessarily cluttering up our mailboxes.
But by using Transgo.io, the small difference is that the shared data does not fall into the hands of large machines across the Atlantic. “The most well-known file transfer solutions rely on American infrastructures, namely AWS, the Amazon cloud,” confides Alain Bélut, the founder of Transgo.io, to 20 minutes. While we have everything we need in France to provide this service.
The Cloud Act, an American law that worries IT managers
Indeed, when you share documents via WeTransfer, they are stored on the American multinational’s servers, before the download expires. And that upsets a lot of users. Particularly since the United States adopted the Cloud Act in 2018, a law which allows the justice system to obtain all the personal data it needs from American hosts.
Even if the server is abroad, and without the owner of the files being informed, wherever he is in the world. “For companies that are concerned about the security of their data, this is a subject that regularly comes up on the table; IT managers are worried about it,” assures Alain Bélut. “But it’s a subject that concerns everyone. »
This is the strong point of the service offered by Transgo.io: the Hérault-based company is not linked to any American storage behemoth. “We have a pool of servers, which we rent, in France, from OVH, which is a French leader in hosting,” confides Alain Bélut. These are our own servers. They belong to us, we have control over them. OVH only hosts them. » When we share files via the Transgo.io online platform, they are stored in France, at the OVH Data Center in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin). And no one, except their recipients, can access them.
With Transgo.io, “I don’t want to overshadow anyone!” »
Transgo.io offers a free service for anyone who needs it, without any registration, with file sharing up to 4 GB. And a paid service, for individuals or businesses, who want to have more features.
With this French file transfer software, “I don’t want to overshadow anyone!” », smiles Alain Bélut. And obviously not to WeTransfer, which alone, or almost, dominates this market. “I just wanted to offer a 100% French service, to allow those who wish to make transfers without asking any questions,” explains the Montpellier entrepreneur. And it pleases. In several CAC40 companies, we already use Transgo.io, rather than other file sharing software.