Comments on: LaCie merges with online-storage start-up Wuala

External-storage specialist LaCie acquires Caleido, the Swiss creator of the online-storage service Wuala, to expand its storage options into the cloud market.

[websterphreaky]

LaCie stuff was ALWAYS over-priced, guess they caught that bug from the Greedy at Apple, and not as good as some other major brands for innovation and features. Maxtor long had One Touch built-in backups, while LaCie had NADA!

I see Wuala and LaCie going down the tubes in this Obummer black economy.

[Markus2008]

Wow, so many things you said make me want to throw up...

I'm thinkin a lot of computer "geeks" are gonna be learnin how to use a shovel and broom in the new socialist state of obummer. Thank you websterphreaky

[andreas-wuala]

Dong, thank you for announcing the Deal. We're glad about it and we're looking forward into a great future. However, may I add a fact to your arguments: What really sets Wuala apart from all the other so called "cloud storage" providers, is that we are actually building a cloud. That is we're using idle resources in a distributed P2P storage system to build a storage cloud with millions of devices. To my understanding this is unique because all the others rely on Amazon S3 You can find more information about Wuala's truly unique technology in the technology section of our website: http://www.wuala.com/en/learn/technology or you may watch a record of the founder Dominik talking at Google Tech Talks back in 2007: http://www.wuala.com/en/learn/techtalk

[sandor_f]

Glad to hear from someone involved... the article/report seems to vaguely infer that there is a bit-torrent/shared environment of some type with regard to Wuala's cloud, so i am happy to hear it confirmed.

The only downside i see right now is dependence on a single software for access to any data you have on the proprietary cloud... but it is intriguing nonetheless.

[caxqueiroz]

Wuala concepts are great, P2P users sharing storage all over the world. However, the technology they have used to implement it are a bit cumbersome. Lack of access through proxy, relying on java applets for "web" access, a mandatory GUI (Mac and Windows) when some users just want to use "virtual" drives are some of the issues with wuala technology. Not using FUSE to support virtual drives was a big mistake IMHO. I was one of the first Wuala users, since I started spend more time at Uni (through a proxy) I stopped using Wuala. Had to migrate to some solution that supports proxy such as Amazon S3.

[bethinoklahoma]

This just seems like another of a very long line of free online storage services (be it with a twist). The problem is that there is simply no an endless supply of money to support this stuff anymore. Once you run out of what you have you better be able to support your business model or you are going to have to end the service.

When is the tech world going to learn that you giving away services with no way to get your money back never works in the long run.

How many of you have free online storage accounts someplace, uploaded a few files and never went back....

Ten Million Customers X $0 = Ten Million Zeros!

Just my thoughts