Wuala
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| Original author(s) | Dominik Grolimund, Luzius Meisser |
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| Initial release | August 14, 2008 |
| Stable release |
Nadelhorn / September 30, 2014
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| Development status | Closed |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, Linux, Mac OS X 10.4 and greater, Android, iOS |
| Platform | Java |
| Available in | English, German, Portuguese, French, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Dutch |
| Type | Online file storage |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Wuala /wɑːˈlɑː/ was a secure online file storage, file synchronization, versioning and backup service originally developed and run by Caleido Inc. It is now part of LaCie, which is in turn owned by Seagate Technology. The service stores files in data centres that are provided by Wuala in multiple European countries (France, Germany, Switzerland). An earlier version also supported distributed storage on other users' machines, however this feature has been dropped. On 17 August 2015 Wuala announced that it was discontinuing its service and that all stored data would be deleted on 15 November 2015.
Most research and development occurred at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich.
14 August 2008
19 September 2008
26 October 2008
16 December 2008
19 March 2009
5 January 2010
23 May 2011
28 September 2011
11 June 2014
31 October 2014
17 August 2015
Any registered user can:
Registered and unregistered users can:
When a user adds a file to Wuala, or saves changes to a file that is served by Wuala, the user's local copy of file is:
Wuala offered free accounts that had 5 GB of storage for no charge. As of 11 June 2014 they shifted to a paid-only service. As of the end of 2014 they will no longer support any form of free-only storage, shifting entirely to a payment based usage model.
Users of joint products may start with greater amounts of storage for a limited period:
Additional storage may be bought. As of June 2014, the referral system was shut down due to the new paid-only policy.
For bought storage: prices range from 29 EUR/year for 20 GB to 999 EUR/year for 1 TB. Pricing changed in June 2014: The storage plan starts with 0.99 € per month (9 € per year) for 5 GB and ends at 159.90 € per Month (1799 € per year) for 2 TB of storage.
One of the distinguishing features of Wuala, the ability to trade local disk storage space against cloud storage, is no longer available.
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