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Content management is becoming a fragmented experience as more and more storage solutions appear on the market.  It is becoming commonplace for professionals to have data stored locally on their own computers and tablets, on their smartphones, and on cloud-based solutions such as Dropbox and Google Drive.  Navigating through each individual file management system can be cumbersome and time-consuming.  To deal with this situation, cool person in tech Kevin Payne and his company Metago have built a unifying content management app for Android called ASTRO.  ASTRO doesn’t only access one storage system, but connects to both your local network and cloud services to create a single file management system for all of a user’s content.  Payne’s app can connect to services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive and even Facebook.  It can also access any computer that shares its data with a local network.  This means a user could conceivably access all of their files from one user interface on their phone at any given time.  Users that don’t know how to share their computer’s content over a local network will want home computer support for help.

Payne originally founded his company Metago as a software development company for the corporate market in 2000.  However, in 2008, Payne pivoted his company and made the dramatic shift to start focusing on mobile applications and solutions.  The company’s first major product was the ASTRO file management system and it became a hit in the Google Play Store.  ASTRO’s success so far seems to indicate that Payne was right to market the concept of simplified and unified file management.  Payne also offers his software for download on Metago’s website for those that don’t want to install it through the Google Play Store.  Users who don’t know how to install software from third parties on their Android devices will need Android tech support for assistance.

Before his days running Metago, Payne worked at several smaller web companies in the late 1990’s.  His focus at the time was mostly on financial and health care data.  While Payne has roughly twenty years of experience in software development, his shift to from business-focused software to consumer facing mobile solutions was dramatic and risky at the time.  It is a testament to this cool person’s foresight and the quality of his product that he has managed to make ASTRO a success after such a significant pivot.

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