When it comes to data storage in cloud, more cloud storage account are better than one(even bigger) single cloud.
Last month, Nirvanix announced that it will shut down itâs services leaving its customer a little over o month (initially it was two weeks and then they extended to term) to move their files to different other cloud storage providers.
What happened to Nirvanix affected the companies because they were the users of Nirvanix service, but what about if something like this happens to individual users?What if a personal cloud storage provider like Dropbox, Box,Copy or any other personal cloud storage provider decides one day that their business model is not good and they decide to shut down their operations? What all those hundreds of millions of users will do?How they will migrate their data? Will they have enough space to âbring homeâ all the data they were storing in cloud with that specific provider?
Well, at this moment there is no solution for individual users (consumer market) that will allow them to migrate all the data from one provider to another in case something like this happens.But, hopefully, in the near future, Cloudfinity users will be able to migrate seamlessly files from one cloud provider to another.
Cloudfinity will offer file balancing (Cloudfinity will launch a private beta in the coming weeks). File balancing for a users means that he or she will be able to migrate data from Dropbox to Copy without any hustle.
Even if you donât have enough space with one provider, taking into consideration that with Cloudfinity it will be like having an Internet accessible drive composed from all the space available with different providers, it will be easy to migrate all the files you have within one specific provider. Just by enrolling with all the major cloud storage providers, a user might have a little more than 1200 Gigabytes of storage (and this is only for the ones using the free option available with most of the providers).
At itâs core, Cloudfinity is unifying in a transparent mode all the cloud storage accounts someone might have with different cloud storage providers like: Dropbox, Ubuntu1, Wuala, Copy, Box, Google Drive and many others.
Besides that fact that unifies all this scattered space, Cloudfinity comes with features like smart tags. For an example if you took some pictures on 24 December in Paris, Cloudfinity will add the following tags to those pictures: Paris, Christmas 2013. So when it comes to share those pictures with your love one, all you have to do is to search for Christmas 2013 and youâll find the Paris pictures. Now all you have to do is to use the built-in share options available in Cloudfinity and you can either share the picture with your family with-in Cloudfinity or you can share them on twitter, Facebook or any other social service you might use.
In this moment, the Cloudfinity application is under heavy development and we expect to be ready for beta by Christmas so you can start enjoy your cloud stored data instead of wasting time wondering where you saved one specific file.
The main scope of Cloudfinity is to encourage people to start using cloud storage more and more and to ease the access to cloud stored files.
If you did not signed up yet for private-beta, the âlistâ is still open. All you have to do is to go to our website and join.
