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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 idle local disk space for online storage and it allows us to provide a better service for free. We started research and development on Wuala in fall 2004 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and we founded our company in 2007. A couple of months ago, we launched the closed alpha version of Wuala, which has been a great success. This summer, we will launch the public beta which everybody can join. In the talk, I will explain what Wuala is and how it works.
Dominik Grolimund (dominik@wua.la) is 27 years old and has studied computer science at ETH Zurich. In 1998, he founded his 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, he 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 he worked in the 'Intelligent Vision & Reasoning' department, developing a product for power plant monitoring.
In 2004, he started project Wuala at ETH Zurich together with Luzius Meisser and in 2007, they founded their company to further develop Wuala and launch it publicly.
He is open to technical exchanges on this project, feel free to contact him.
Organised by: Miguel Angel Marquina
Computing Seminars /IT Department