District Judge William Alsup ordering the plaintiff to shell out $99 for an additional month under Bitcasa’s new pricing plan if he wants more time to move data. The lawsuit ended in Bitcasa’s favor, with U.S. CEO Brian Taptich, who didn’t create the original business plan, called the whole strategy a “wildly money-losing proposition.”Īngry customers filed a class action lawsuit against the company for allegedly breaching its contract through the sudden switch. In November 2014, the company dropped the “unlimited” service after a number of customers went crazy with storing content, causing the company to consider bankruptcy. This isn’t the first time that Bitcasa has changed the rules for its storage customers. Not the First Time Bitcasa Has Been in Trouble We have appreciated all of your support.”Ī Bitcasa representative did not respond to an eWEEK request to know how much data will be vacating the company’s cloud store by May 20. Thank you for being a Bitcasa Drive user. For more information, please visit our Help Center. All account owners must take action to avoid losing their files. “We are discontinuing our Bitcasa Drive service in order to focus our full attention on our growing platform business. To that, we at eWEEK say: Everything has to be somewhere, and this includes digital files. It is killing its own cloud service, and it also doesn’t want anybody to store files in physical stores. Anybody using a Bitcasa CloudFS driver will have to channel all content to another cloud service provider, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.Īctually, Bitcasa doesn’t appear to like the storage business as a whole anymore. There will be no Bitcasa cloud storage after May 20. The idea was to help users not to have to think about storage-by using this driver, all content was to flow directly into the secure Bitcasa cloud and not into any type of physical storage. More than a year ago, Bitcasa made a central business strategy change to its CloudFS software driver, which allows any device to access cloud storage automatically at the operating system level, eliminating the need for storage on desktop or portable drives. We have appreciated all of your support.” “To learn why this is happening, please click here. “All data must be downloaded by 11:59pm PST on May 20, 2016, after which time all accounts and stored data on Bitcasa Drive will be permanently deleted. You will need to take action to avoid losing your files. “This message is to inform you that the Bitcasa Drive service will no longer be supported. In an email dated April 21 to its customers, the San Mateo, California-based company said the following: Gouda is a former MasterCard fraud-detection software engineer and describes himself as an "engineer at heart". BitCasa was founded by former Mozy and Mastercard employees.Bitcasa, which three years ago tried to sell the idea of infinite storage in the cloud for $10 per month, is killing its entire cloud storage business to focus full attention on its platform business. One more similarity to Dropbox, and something which separates it from your usual online backup solution, is individual files and folders on your Bitcasa drive can be shared with friends and family via a public link. Meanwhile, all files are encrypted and multiple copies are silently stored (at least three, according to Bitcasa) so users can roll back to previous file versions when the necessity arises. There are no fees for additional devices nor did I see a limit on their number. Users can utilize the Bitcasa utility (or leverage their own tools) to keep their shared data pool synchronized across multiple devices, create mirror backups and so on. On big distinction between the two though is that Bitcasa's "sync folder" is hosted entirely online, meaning files in your Bitcasa drive don't need to be stored locally on a computer somewhere. On Windows, for example, Bitcasa mounts a virtual drive where any or all of your files, folders and backups can be stored. This is actually a limitation of Windows though and not the service, according to CEO Tony Gouda.Īside from essentially unbounded space to store stuff, the service works very much like Dropbox. Unforgiving pedants may point out that under Windows, "unlimited" accounts actually show just under 8 exabytes of available space. And if a monthly subscription isn't your style, Bitcasa also offers 10GB for free – all you have to do is sign up.īitcasa is effectively, although perhaps not technically, unlimited. However, the company is also kicking off its public debut with a special offer: one-year of unlimited storage for $69. The multi-platform service is poised to shake things up by offering unlimited space with no file size restrictions for $10 per month – or just $99 per year. After roughly a year and a half of being in beta, Bitcasa has finally hit the cloud storage scene.
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