Bitcasa cloud service could become a serious competitor to Dropbox



    Currently, more and more people are storing their data on the web. Some services offer completely reliable file storage where the data will be safe. In addition, the volumes of such storage available to the user are constantly expanding. But of course, you have to pay for everything, and sometimes the monthly fee for the right to work with a particular storage is quite high. The new "cloud" service Bitcasa provides dimensionless storage for user files, it will cost $ 10 per month.

    This price, as far as one can judge, is quite adequate for such a service. Bitcasa developers have already explained why the monthly fee is so low. The fact is that the service uses technology for finding duplicate files downloaded by users. Large files that people store in the "cloud" are usually movies and music, and such data usually makes up 60% of the files stored by average users. Technologies that avoid duplication of files stored on the service + compression technologies provide significant savings in the file space of the service. As a result, the monthly fee is reduced to $ 10 per month.

    Bitcasa service is different from its analogues. Firstly, the files that are stored here may be available only to users of the service, they cannot be shared with everyone. Secondly, all files are encrypted, and no copyright holder, even with a great desire, will not be able to detect copyrighted data. Files are encrypted on the client side, so the administration will also not be able to help the copyright holders if they ask to help identify violations.

    You can listen to or watch downloaded music or a movie directly from the Web, without a new download to a local drive. This is also another plus for the service.

    Bitcasa was created by former employees of companies such as Classmates.com, MasterCard and VeriSign. And the other day, the service received $ 1.3 million investment. Among the investors who provided the funds are CrunchFund, an investment fund founded by the creator of TechCrunch.

    The service is still in beta testing and is not available to everyone. There is also an invite system, you can request an invite here . In the future, the developers plan to release a mobile version of the service.

    Via CNET

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