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SmartUp has been featured in “Best New Apps” by Apple UK and US in July and October 2015. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.Frank is the Co-Founder & Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures and a Partner at SparkLabs, Asia’s premier accelerator based in Seoul.įrank is also the Co-Founder and CEO at SmartUp.io, a fast-growing Micro-Learning platform used by startups, business schools and corporates.

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Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile () of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff-the only time he has entered the competition. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world () by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. Bitcasa simply could not afford to keep unlimited-storage users as customers one user who was storing 82TB of data was costing the company around $3,000 to $4,000 a month, he said.Ĭhris J. Taptich told GigaOm at the time that removing unlimited storage was not a pleasant experience but a necessary move for the company to get its finances back on track. However, financial details unearthed in the lawsuit painted a bleak picture for the startup. District Judge William Alsup ordering the plaintiff to shell out $99 for an additional month under Bitcasa’s new pricing plan if he wants more time to move data. The lawsuit ended in Bitcasa’s favor, with U.S. CEO Brian Taptich, who didn’t create the original business plan, called the whole strategy a “wildly money-losing proposition.”Īngry customers filed a class action lawsuit against the company for allegedly breaching its contract through the sudden switch. In November 2014, the company dropped the “unlimited” service after a number of customers went crazy with storing content, causing the company to consider bankruptcy. This isn’t the first time that Bitcasa has changed the rules for its storage customers. Not the First Time Bitcasa Has Been in Trouble We have appreciated all of your support.”Ī Bitcasa representative did not respond to an eWEEK request to know how much data will be vacating the company’s cloud store by May 20. Thank you for being a Bitcasa Drive user. For more information, please visit our Help Center. All account owners must take action to avoid losing their files.

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“We are discontinuing our Bitcasa Drive service in order to focus our full attention on our growing platform business. To that, we at eWEEK say: Everything has to be somewhere, and this includes digital files. It is killing its own cloud service, and it also doesn’t want anybody to store files in physical stores.

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Anybody using a Bitcasa CloudFS driver will have to channel all content to another cloud service provider, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.Īctually, Bitcasa doesn’t appear to like the storage business as a whole anymore. There will be no Bitcasa cloud storage after May 20. The idea was to help users not to have to think about storage-by using this driver, all content was to flow directly into the secure Bitcasa cloud and not into any type of physical storage.

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More than a year ago, Bitcasa made a central business strategy change to its CloudFS software driver, which allows any device to access cloud storage automatically at the operating system level, eliminating the need for storage on desktop or portable drives. We have appreciated all of your support.” “To learn why this is happening, please click here. “All data must be downloaded by 11:59pm PST on May 20, 2016, after which time all accounts and stored data on Bitcasa Drive will be permanently deleted. You will need to take action to avoid losing your files. “This message is to inform you that the Bitcasa Drive service will no longer be supported. In an email dated April 21 to its customers, the San Mateo, California-based company said the following: Bitcasa, which three years ago tried to sell the idea of infinite storage in the cloud for $10 per month, is killing its entire cloud storage business to focus full attention on its platform business.

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