CloudBOok hybrid cloud storage service from LaCie

LaCie CloudBox

LaCie has announced a hybrid storage product that combines a desktop hard drive with a cloud storage service.

The new product, called CloudBox, automatically stores a copy of your data locally to what is basically a network-attached storage (NAS) device and then securely replicates that data to an online storage service.

The company said all data is secured using 128-bit AES encryption before it is are sent to the cloud, meaning no one but the user can access it.

LaCie attained its online backup service with the purchase of Wuala two years ago.

But CloudBox doesn’t come cheap. For $200, a consumer gets a 100GB desktop box and a one-year subscription to the online cloud service. For every year after that, it’ll cost $100 to renew the cloud service.




[Source : www.macworld.com ]