Trading presents an interesting option for many users. Trading requires your computer be available at least four hours a day. The exact amount of storage is determined by how often your computer is accessible (meaning Wuala’s client is running and online). By allocating storage on your local machine, you get up to that much storage on Wuala’s cloud. Sure enough, it’s basically Buddy Backup with a twist. I had a strange feeling of déjà vu here. The other way to “Go Pro†is through “trading†storage. Free and paid accounts get access to all features including Automatic Sync, File Revisions and Backup There’s also a feature called “Time Travel†that is unexplained on the main site. , which do not get Automatic Sync, File Revisions, or Backup. Everyone starts off with a 1 GB Free Account. Wuala offers some interesting account concepts. However, the team from Zurich appears to have been mostly left intact, so Wuala works fairly flawlessly. And SmallNetBuilder readers know that LaCie NAS products can be hit or miss. My experience with storage providers providing online storage has been a little rough, to say the least. I was originally a little dubious of Wuala. Since it’s Java-based, Wuala is cross platform with equal Windows, Mac, and Linux support. But now offers itself as both web and stand alone apps. It was originally designed to run in a web browser as a Java applet. Wuala got its start as a project by a group of students at Switzerland’s Swiss Federal Institue of Technology. Wuala came from a merger between LaCie and Wuala’s creator, Caleido AG. Wuala is LaCie’s entry in the cloud backup and storage markets. Updated 3/16/10: Wuala has added an iPhone application so your files can now be accessed remotely. Although, I've been told that this is something that they're working on and am looking forward to being added in the future.Updated 10/20/11: Feature updates. One of the things that I've found to be a little tough is file deletion, as of now if you delete a file it's gone forever since it's synced among your devices (there is no trash folder/function). I've used and trusted Tresorit since their launch, and I highly recommend them. Their support team is phenomenal, and they're always quick to respond and happy to help, and is some of the best customer support I've ever received. Syncing across multiple devices works flawlessly, and file upload/download speed is very fast. But what makes them really stand out against all the others is their use of client-side encryption, meaning that unlike their competitors, your files are encrypted before they're uploaded to the cloud - so no one, not even Tresorit themselves can see your files - because only you hold the key. It has all the security features you would expect and more, such as 2FA, and login notifications that will tell when and where if someone tries to access your account, and even the ability to see how many times your shared files have been downloaded. I love how Tresorit makes syncing and storing my files not only simple and easy to use (it's practically invisible as it integrates with your computers file system - just set it up and forget it), but primarily because I know that my files are safe since it uses end-to-end encryption as well as zero-knowledge security.
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