Wuala Talk with Alumni from the University of Zurich

Yesterday our CTO, Luzius Meisser, had a talk with former students from the University of Zurich and their professor who wanted to know more about what Wuala is doing.

You'll find more pictures here. Thanks to the Alumni from the University of Zurich for visiting the Wuala Office, we hope you had an informative and interesting time.

If you want to know more about Wuala, check out our about page. And if you have any questions just let us know, we're happy to help.

Group Access For iOS

We're really happy to introduce Group Access for iOS.

 

Now you can access your files in all of your public as well as private groups. Everything on the go.

Did you want to catch up with the latest report before going to the meeting or view the last statistics from your finance department? Or did you just want to take a look at the latest pictures that you share with your family?

With the newest iOS update (v 2.07) from Wuala all this is now possible.

You can read the latest newsletter here or get Wuala from the App Store now.

The newsletter is also available in German and French.

Wuala supports UNAIDS

UNAIDS mission is to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. They bring together the resources of the UNAIDS Secretariat and 10 UN system organizations for coordinated and accountable efforts to unite the world against AIDS.

We wanted to contribute to that special work that UNAIDS is providing. With so many people involved in different countries, a centralized storage service makes it a lot easier do handle all the data volume, plus there is no need to waste paper through printed documents.

We hope that you too can make a donation and support UNAIDS to continue their work. Please go to donations.unaids.org and donate whatever you can. Every amount is greatly appreciated.

The patriot act and cloud storage

This article on politico discusses the implications of the patriot act in the US on cloud computing, namely that companies and governments are reluctant to use US based cloud storage because data stored in the US becomes accessible to the US government through the patriot act. The best way to avoid this is to take the Wuala approach of client-side encryption and to encrypt everything before it is uploaded. With client-side encryption, no one, not even LaCie as the operators of Wuala, can see your stored data and therefore also cannot give it to a government agency or anyone else. Furthermore, Wuala's datacenters are all located in Europe which has more data protection laws, giving additional comfort to our users.

Wuala And Certification

Recently, we get asked a lot if we have any certification regarding data safety (for example HIPAA or ISO compliance). 

 

First of all, Yes, we comply the overall prerequisites. However, we have not been certified so far.

The Wuala client and the Wuala server infrastructure contain the appropriate and highest technical security standards to guarantee the safety of your data. The Wuala technology is based on fully client-side-encryption, engineered especially for this matter. LaCie as a provider has never the possibility to access your data at any time.

Further, the Wuala technology relies on highest redundancy based on three geographically independent data centers located in Europe. In the most unlikely event of data loss in one of our data centers, the Wuala technology offers the possibility to access and recover the data securely and quickly from another redundant data center.

Wuala can therefore be used to fulfill the compliance mentioned above.

More about the Wuala technology here

If you are interested in further detail, you'll find everything here

And Another New Member :)

Hello Wuala!

My name is Zygmunt and recently I started working at Wuala as a Software Engineer.

Just few months before my start i have finished my MSc in Computer Science on ETH in Zurich.

Now i am here in order to further develop myself by exploring and improving wuala.

Have a good time with wuala,

Zygmunt

Say Hello To Our New Member Markus!

Hi Wuala fans!

My name is Markus and I joined Wuala today to support the team in the Sales and Marketing area.

Prior to Wuala, I worked for internet companies in Zurich and Berlin and finished my BA in Business Administration in Ravensburg, Germany.

I am very passionate about the web and what solutions it can offer nowadays and I am looking forward to working for such a fascinating solution as Wuala.

If you have any questions or inquiries, don't hesitate to contact me.

Thanks and have a nice day

Markus