Recession squeezes Online Storage
There have been a spate of failures of online storage providers from high visibility brands like HP Upline and AOL Xdrive to specialists MediaMax, Omnidrive and MyVirtualDrive. Ouch, your precious data is gone!
What lies behind this? The problem is that online storage costs money and that's rather tight right now.
There is competition among online storage providers to gain customers because they're locking their users in for years of fees (when you stop paying fees they throw away your backups). The ones that don't charge enough are going bust and the others will be charging more to survive the recession.
But there's another way, backup your data using Cucku to people you know and keep your money in your pocket.
posted by Bill Rivers on Wednesday, March 04, 2009
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Your analysis is not entirely true. We at Wuala leverage the competitive advantage of P2P storage, which has similar effects as your free software but offers the security of a distributed file storage system. While your customers have to rely on a single space to store their files, our customers know that even the crash of many remote computers won't affec their data availability.
See http://wuala.com for more information.
Disclaimer: I work at Wuala.
Hi Andreas. There are pros and cons to anonymous p2p storage. It's true that you don't need and aren't dependent on a specific partner as with Cucku. The big drawback though is that you need to distribute files to quite a few systems before you can be confident that you can always access them. With an asymmetric broadband connection this is pretty painful for a significant amount of data.
Because Cucku works on a trusted partner model you can actually backup and restore in person at LAN speed when that makes sense. We think this solves one of the biggest problems with both online and distributed p2p systems. We're also introducing multiple partner support in the near future so you can have several remote backups as well as a local backup.
Our approach isn't for everyone. I know some people prefer the Wuala model and others prefer online backup. Thanks for broadening the discussion.
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