<s>
Zettabox	B-General_Concept
was	O
a	O
pan-European	O
online	B-Application
cloud	I-Application
storage	I-Application
and	O
team-sharing	O
tool	O
,	O
created	O
by	O
co-founders	O
James	O
Kinsella	O
and	O
Robert	O
McNeal	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
time	O
when	O
Zettabox	B-General_Concept
was	O
founded	O
,	O
the	O
total	O
amount	O
of	O
worldwide	O
data	O
saved	O
on	O
networks	O
had	O
surpassed	O
1,000	O
Exabytes	O
and	O
entered	O
a	O
new	O
era	O
of	O
sizing	O
storage	O
–	O
Zettabytes	O
(	O
1	O
x	O
1021	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
cloud	O
team	O
sharing	O
and	O
storage	O
market	O
heavily	O
dominated	O
by	O
American-domiciled	O
companies	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
Dropbox	B-Application
and	O
Box.com,	O
Zettabox	B-General_Concept
was	O
launched	O
as	O
the	O
European	O
alternative	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Zettabox	B-General_Concept
has	O
been	O
described	O
as	O
being	O
‘	O
an	O
example	O
of	O
a	O
genuinely	O
European	O
cloud	O
storage	O
solution’	O
in	O
“	O
The	O
EU	O
Data	O
Protection	O
Reform	O
and	O
Big	O
Data	O
Factsheet	O
”	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
European	O
Commission	O
cited	O
Zettabox	B-General_Concept
as	O
the	O
first	O
major	O
pan-European	O
alternative	O
to	O
the	O
US-based	O
cloud	O
storage	O
products	O
like	O
Google	O
Drive	O
and	O
Dropbox	B-Application
.	O
</s>
