Applications, such as large Microsoft Access SQL queries that are likely more susceptible to latency, were not tested.
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According to Bitcasa CEO Tony Gauda, the infinite drive software tries to anticipate what users want to see next, and prefetches the data accordingly. Cycling quickly through the same images using the ifranView client to display images mirrored on Bitcasa was smoother compared to photo-sharing sites. The difference in latency when opening documents and spreadsheets from Bitcasa’s infinite drive compared to local storage is similar. The difference in latency between cycling the display of local and mirrored images was not material and approximately the same as cycling medium-sized (100KB – 300KB) images compared to large images. In preparation for this story, I cycled 300 large (500 KB to 1 MB) jpeg images using ifranView. According to IDC, 918 million smartphones and 229 million tablets will ship in 2013, a large number of which will need access to legacy computer data.Īll the files mirrored to Bitcasa are available on the mobile device and can be opened with the associated app with limited incremental latency. Bitcasa is a post-PC era solution to the consumer use of computers, tablets and smartphones. Consumers have large repositories of photos, music, movies and documents on their computers that are not easily shared with smart mobile devices. It mirrors the user’s hard drive, making it accessible to the user’s other networked homogeneous and heterogeneous devices.
Bitcasa stands out because it replaces consumers’ hard drives with a cloud storage service that the users’ applications treat as local storage, and which can be shared with smart mobile devices.įor $9.99 per month, users get infinite storage as a cloud service. Cloud storage exists today, but the content types are application-specific to sharing and/or backup.
Bitcasa has delivered infinite storage as a cloud utility.
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