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Barracuda Copy Shutting Down (barracuda.com)

Posted by timothy on from the someone-should-back-it-up-or-copy-it dept.

New submitter assaf07 writes: I received a notification [Monday] that Barracuda's excellent online storage option Copy will be shuttting down in May. A blog post by Rod Matthews, VP of Storage at Barracuda gives the usual business doublespeak excuse. Having used Google's Drive, Box, Dropbox, and Spideroak, I am very disappointed to lose Copy as its native Linux, Android, IOS, and Windows clients are/were wonderful.

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  1. What doesn't google or dropbox do that this did? by Harlequin80 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I never used this particular system but have used both dropbox and Google drive happily across multiple OS types and I can't figure out what I am missing out on.

    Personally I use google drive which has native clients for mac & windows and use the google-drive-ocamlfuse system to mount google drive in Linux. It is easy to setup and works perfectly. http://gdfuse.forge.ocamlcore....

  2. Re:Duplication by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Informative

    VP of Storage at Barracuda gives the usual business doublespeak excuse.

    That's just like a good clone.

    Some of the doublespeak in question, from the first paragraph in TFA:

    We are constantly evaluating our product portfolio in the context of our overall strategic goals. With that in mind, we have begun a process to focus our resources on our most strategic initiatives and to drive more innovation and faster growth within those products.

    --
    It must have been something you assimilated. . . .