If you’ve enjoyed using both or either of the Copy or CudaDrive cloud storage services, then we have bad news for you. Barracuda has just announced that they are discontinuing the service by May 1, 2016 for business reasons. The “business focus has shifted” and so the company decided to stop providing these two cloud storage services to both the general public for Cloud and the enterprise users for CudaDrive, although the latter will be “reincarnated” in some form or another.
That’s because Rod Matthews, Barracuda VP for storage business said that they will be bringing in the CudaDrive engineering team and have them working together with the company’s Barracuda Backup team to help create a new product line that may focus on enterprise solutions involving cloud storage. This may indicate that they realized there is no money to be made in personal cloud storage but rather just focus on businesses that need their data backed up.
But don’t worry, they will not leave their customers high and dry. You have at least three months to move and backup what you already have in both Copy and CudaDrive. They have partnered with Mover that will help you migrate all the data and content that you have to your cloud service of choice or to a hard drive, in case you don’t want the cloud anymore. They have even made a step-by-step guide so that you won’t get lost in all this backing up.
Those who have a paid subscription for either of the two services will have to wait for further announcements as to how to refund and other options that they will be giving the subscribers. In the meantime, you better start backing up those files as early as now.
