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To cap it all off, the company failed miserably in its efforts to come up with a compelling cloud storage offer for its business customers, losing out to more capable rivals such as Box Inc. The company gave customers just 30 days to move their files or lose them forever, prompting outrage from disgruntled users on this Reddit thread. Then, in April 2015, the company irked customers a second time when it said it was killing off its consumer-focused Bitcasa Drive service so it could focus on serving business customers instead.

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Strangely, it blamed both low demand and some customers for “abusing” the service by trying to take full advantage of the promised unlimited storage. The five-year-old company began its life as a single-user platform offering unlimited cloud storage in 2011, getting lots of attention at a TechCrunch conference and raising about $21 million in venture capital funding in its first two years from Horizons Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners and others.ĭespite that positive start, things quickly fell apart for Bitcasa, which was forced to announce back in 2014 that it was ending its unlimited storage plan. The confusing circumstances of Bitcasa’s demise are perhaps a fitting end for a company that excelled at confusing its customers time and again. had acquired Bitcasa for an undisclosed price. Simple, private & secure, as much space as you need, for all your devices Nextcloud: A self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control. has bailed out of the game for good, according to a blog post by ex-Chief Executive Officer Brian Taptich.īut Taptich’s final message that the company is “no more” is nonetheless somewhat cryptic, as he says “this is not bad news.” He claims that the company has become “a part of something much, much bigger” that will allow it to “eliminate the storage and computing limitations of your connected devices, however small.” He neglected to provide any further details.Īdding to the confusion is the fact that Venturebeat last week reported that Intel Corp. The above command is from back in the day when bitcasa was a thing, but it will mount a bitcasa drive to /home/user/bitcasa (login credentials in /etc/bc.ini) and will limit mount.bitcasa to using. Bitcasa vs Nextcloud: What are the differences Bitcasa: Your External Hard Drive in the Cloud.Your personal cloud storage platform.

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