Gauda says he can make this business work at $10 a month with unlimited storage. "We want the hard drive you just bought to be the last one you need." Apple's iCloud will be, at best, an online mirror of your local storage, with limits. But, Gauda says, nobody is going to offer what he's doing. There are also big competitors to worry about: The mythical GDrive, for example, and Apple's imminent iCloud storage product. Gauda says that, actually, the company is working on technology to help Web app developers shunt data between services, again using the Bitcasa "drive" as a consumer's main storage space. So while Bitcasa is cool and useful, I do wonder how long that will be the case. Bitcasa lets you share your files among your computers, or with friends and co-workers.īut more importantly, there's the fact that consumers are actually moving to more native Web apps, like Google Docs, Yahoo Mail, and Flickr, not to mention smartphones and tablets that often don't have user-accessible file systems. Even if the network is secure, though, there's the perception that it may not be Dropbox's June security flop still weighs on this sector.Īlso, as Gauda says, "We can't make single-user products multiuser." So if you use a Bitcasa drive for an app like Outlook or iTunes, and try to access that file from multiple computers at once, you might have problems.
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Bitcasa encrypts everything end to end and in the cloud, so absent a password hack, the data can't leave the system.
Whether it's actually there is another matter, but if Bitcasa is fast and smart enough, you'll never know nor care.ĬEO Tony Gauda confirmed for me that there are some large challenges to bringing a product like this to market. Users also get all their data on all their devices, and every time you get a new computer, you just point it to your account and all your data appears on your local device. With Bitcasa, in concept anyway, users no longer have to worry about a single local hard-drive failure eating their data, since everything is mirrored on the Internet. Readers who follow me know how much I'm a fan of apps and services that synchronize local storage to the cloud, so they won't be surprised that I really like this idea.
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(A free version will be "less than unlimited," the company says). Bitcasa will cost $10 a month with no storage cap for users. If the technology works, this architecture should give you storage that's just as fast as a local-only hard drive, but with more capacity and reliability. Your local hard drive is used-heavily-for the cache.
With this product, your main storage is actually in the "cloud," and because of that, it's pretty much unlimited. Technically, it's a virtualized primary storage company.
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