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Lacie cloudbox wuala5/28/2023 The immediate advice to Wuala users is to back up their data stored on the service to a PC, Mac or another cloud storage offering, somewhat ironic considering that the idea of taking out a Wuala account in the first place is that you’d no longer need to worry about backups. Effective Sunday, 15 November 2015, the Wuala cloud service will terminate. Full account service will continue through 30 September 2015, at which point all active accounts will shift to read-only mode. In a blog post to customers, Wuala has just announced that it is to shut down.Įffective as of today, you will no longer be able to purchase storage or renew existing accounts. Philippe Spruch, founder and CEO of LaCie, said that the partnership would lead LaCie to transform from a hardware manufacturer to a “digital storage provider”. In fact, at the time the two companies talked up the deal as a “merger” rather than one acquiring the other. A traditional hardware storage maker picking up an expert in cloud storage software. Despite exiting pretty early instead of scaling to become a leader in the space (in then somewhat typical European style), the deal made a lot of sense. Back in 2009, hardware storage company LaCie acquired Wualu, a Zurich-based startup and pioneer in peer-to-peer cloud storage.
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