Cucku

Reviews

ABC News“Cucku adopts the philosophy that friends don’t let friends lose data“ — Ross Rubin
Friends don’t let friends lose data


Bright Hub“Cucku takes an interesting hybrid (and novel) approach to backing up data. Remote backup is part of the solution, but Cucku also initially makes a local backup of your data which you can use for quick restores.“ — Lee Clemmer
Cucku Social Backup Review — Excellent


CNET“With these new features, Cucku’s Backup Pro is intended for home users and those who need their backup replicated to multiple computers for better protection against disasters. Also, this makes Cucku a viable backup solution for small businesses“ — Dong Ngo
Cucku online backup goes pro


FastCompany.com“People who don’t trust their data to be on say, Amazon’s cloud, can feel safe in having a co-worker or family member with a backup. Also, less tech-savvy users who don’t quite understand cloud offerings might be attracted to Cucku’s simple software and easy interface.“ — Sean Ludwig
Cloud Computing Goes Cucku


Fileslinger“Piggybacking on Skype for peer-to-peer is pure genius when it comes to dealing with technophobes who don’t want to have to argue with their routers or firewalls.“ — Sallie Goetsch
Cucku 2.0 Definitely Scores Points for Imagination


GigaOM“I must admit that I was skeptical when I first heard about Cucku. However, I love the idea of an easy way to combine online with sneakernet backups, and I liked what I saw when I played a little with the new Cucku version over the last few days.“ — Janko Roettgers
Cucku Uses Skype to Back Up Your Family’s Data


internetnews.com“The second advantage is time: it can take advantage of the full speed of the local network which likely exceeds any connection to the Internet, especially the meager upstream that most home users and many small businesses deal with.“ — Alex Goldman
Cucku uses Skype for encrypted backup


lifehacker“If you’ve considered using remote backup to keep your data safe from disaster but you’re wary of putting your backups on a third-party server, Cucku Backup is for you.“ — Jason Fitzpatrick
Cucku Backup Stashes Your Files with Friends


PC World“Cucku doesn’t set any limits to how much data your partner can backup over the service... In these modern times, when a terabyte of hard drive space can be had for just a couple hundred bucks, couldn’t we all spare a few megabytes for a friend?“ — Neil McAllister
Couldn’t we all spare a few megabytes for a friend?


TechCrunch“Cucku.. is trying to merge the benefits of local and remote backup. Using a technology it calls "social backup", users are able to automatically save their files to a friend’s computer“ — Jason Kincaid
Pair Up! Cucku Lets You Swap Data With A Buddy


The Seattle Times“One of the newest ideas to surface in off-site backups is Cucku... the idea behind Cucku is that you entrust your precious data to a friend.“ — Craig Crossman
Cucku software offers off-site backup for your data


ZDNet“For example, this is ideal for families with who have several children in college, where the PC at home is the “mothership” which contains the backups for the remote students. If Junior accidentally crashes his hard drive away at school and needs a copy of his graduate thesis that he’s been working on for several months, no problem — he can get it from dad’s PC at home, because CUCKU runs transparently in the background.“ — Jason Perlow
Be your own Internet backup service


“There’s no limitation to the amount of data you can back up, and the program is amazingly fast and transparent to the end-user“ — Jason Perlow
I’m Cookoo about Cucku Backup


“Cucku Backup is a product who’s time has come — a free critical data backup service that uses the spare hard drive space on your other “peer” PCs“ — Jason Perlow
Cucku Backup is a product who’s time has come