SanDisk joins a growing roster of partners, including Hutchison Telecom and over 23,000 developers, which have chosen to cloud-enable their products using Bitcasa's white label applications and APIs.īitcasa is transforming the drive. SanDisk clearly recognizes the value in the Bitcasa platform and the value it can provide across numerous technologies and markets," said Terri McClure, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Bitcasa is showing true innovation here, allowing partners to quickly and seamlessly bridge physical devices to the cloud. "It further validates our belief that cloud storage will ultimately become disaggregated, creating a huge opportunity for Bitcasa and our partners." In a separate order, the judge denied Bitcasa's request to seal documents with information about the data and statistics the company collects and how much it pays to rent servers from Amazon Web Services."We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with SanDisk," said Brian Taptich, CEO of Bitcasa. However, Alsup also noted that Bitcasa's lawyers couldn't promise that if Romack pays for the extension, his data wouldn't be lost in a "migration process." So he ordered the company to preserve and help migrate Romack's files if the man pays the $99 fee. "Putative class members, of course, can pay $99 for a one-month extension as well." "The certification question remains for another day," he wrote. The judge also ruled that Romack did not show evidence that a classwide injunction is needed. "Money damages will solve this problem, if there is one," he wrote. If Romack chooses that route, the court can make a decision later regarding money and whether the company owes Romack a refund, Alsup added. That way, he'll have time to download his data, Alsup said. In a ruling issued Wednesday, Alsup narrowed the scope of the Romack's "vast injunction" request by holding that the man can get individual relief from Bitcasa's deletion only if he pays another $99 for a one-month extension under a new data plan. 18 that he had removed just two to three of his nearly 7.7 terabytes of data in five days with his computer running "virtually 24/7."Īccording to Bitcasa, 7.7 terabytes is enough to store 1.6 million songs, 2.7 million photos, or 4,000 high-definition movies. But Alsup also reminded Romack that no class had yet been certified. District Judge William Alsup granted the temporary restraining order last week, barring Bitcasa from deleting anybody's data until at least Nov. 15 or to start deleting their data.īut Bitcasa only gave customers 23 days to delete their data before it did so for them - an announcement that prompted Romack's request for an injunction, since he claims to have about 8 terabytes to remove. The man claims that Bitcasa breached its contract with users by forcing them to either accept a new, more expensive plan by Nov. Shawn Romack filed a class action suit against Bitcasa last week, less than a month after the company announced it would end its "Infinite" storage plan. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A man who sued a cloud-storage service for ending its unlimited data storage plan is getting what he asked for - kind of.
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