Wuala - a distributed file system


Google Tech Talks
October, 30 2007

ABSTRACT

After three years of research and development on a distributed storage system, we are ready to unveil the result: Wuala. Wuala is a new way of storing, sharing, and publishing files on the internet. Unlike traditional online storage systems, Wuala is decentralized and can harness idle resources of participating computers to build a large, secure, and reliable online storage. This enables its users to trade parts of their local storage for online storage and it allows us to provide a better service for free. In the talk, I will explain what Wuala is and how it works, and I will also show a demo. All attendees will also get an invitation code to join the early alpha version.

Speaker: Dominik Grolimund
I am 26 years old and have studied computer science at ETH Zurich. In 1998, I founded my software company Caleido, and developed the Caleido Address-Book, a professional contact management software, of which over 35'000 licenses have been sold so far in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

In 2003, I did an exchange semester at the TU Delft, the Netherlands, as part of the Unitech exchange program, focusing on business and management. In 2004, a six-month internship followed with Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey in the US, where I worked in the 'Intelligent Vision&Reasoning' department, developing a prod...







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50Dudes (October 18, 2008 at 4:40 pm)
Sub4Sub
stalepie35 (September 8, 2008 at 8:50 am)
I wish it didn't use Java.
kchecker (August 27, 2008 at 10:39 am)
bullshit
7GB space for me .. when i give in 10gb and stay online for 70% of the time...
thats just crap
i dont see commercial viability

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