Gene Ruth, a research director at Gartner, said the startup offers improvements to the cloud storage market from a consumer's perspective, but the question is whether it can deliver. If a user is travelling with an iPad, for example, and loses Internet access, with Bitcasa she can at least access the files she uses most frequently and those she has set to save to her device. The novel storage method holds out the promise of smoothing over access disruptions, a common complaint about cloud storage. You can have a terabyte of information and only 16 gigs will be cached locally, but those are the 16 that you use most often." "We stream them to and from the cloud in real time, but we cache a lot of that information locally on every device. "We intercept the file system calls and fool the operating system into believing that the files are actually local on the device," Gauda explained. When there is a connection, local devices communicate with the cloud by streaming, rather than through discrete uploads and downloads, potentially speeding things up. Bitcasa works on mobile devices using HTML5.
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On Mac, PC and Linux desktops, Bitcasa integrates with the operating system, such that the system will indicate that a file stored through Bitcasa is local, according to CEO Tony Gauda.
But the company says that file encryption occurs on the client side, keeping the user's files safeguarded from intrusion by the company or other users, concerns that have potentially slowed the adoption of consumer cloud storage services. If multiple users have the same file saved, Bitcasa saves pointers to the files rather than copies.ĭe-duplicating data across users has raised eyebrows among industry watchers.
The service claims to deliver "unlimited storage" by compressing data and de-duplicating files from multiple users, rather than simply storing all of each user's files on its servers. Bitcasa, a consumer cloud services startup, launched a public beta of its unlimited cloud storage service on Wednesday.
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