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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[stalepie35]

I wish it didn't use Java.

[dominikgrolimund]

This is Dominik. Thanks for your interest! I assume you have received your invite by now. If not, please let me know.

[lx45803]

@hhan44 What to dlls and torrents have to do with Wuala?

[grahamperrin]

@SyntheholVideo agreed. I posted to Posterous:

LaCie: Wuala ceases to trade storage, loses essence

[SyntheholVideo]

"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."

They just killed this feature. A bad, bad, decision.

[lnostdal]

@stalepie35 Java (or JVM languages) is great. The problem with stuff depending on the JVM is that the JVM is not already in memory when it starts -- as is the case when something C/C++ based starts.

[hhan44]

More Torrents! Fucking DLLs sucks... -.-

[lalujai]

why invent a pen for space? just use a pencil!

Cloud Computing and worldwide CDN is going cheap, HD space / CPU power also go cheaper and cheaper, n Home broadband going 1G speed now

Any highschool kid can subscribe awazon S3 + worldwide CDN and provide a higher speed, more stable service in 3 hours? u charge $45 for 25G??

The only good point I can think of is to share priate stuffs, since it uses P2P and difficult to trace the source unless the company disclose such information.

[leovailati]

Java? Good luck =D

[grahamperrin]

36:08 comparison with Freenet

37:30 comparison with Mojo Nation

43:05 comparison with Deep Store

[MrPandaDork]

my favorite been there since the beginning!

[Chilloutman33]

@stalepie35 why?