hubiC Closed by OVH
Cloud storage service unable to be competitive and difficult to use
By Jean Jacques Maleval | May 29, 2018 at 2:32 pmBig French data hosting company OVH Group announced the closing of hubiC, its public cloud storage and synchronization service, launched in 2011, but unable to compete with Amazon, BackBlaze, Box, Carbonite, CraschPlan, Google and others, even if the price was attractive (€25GB for free, €10 per year for 100GB and €50 per year for 10TB.)
OVH is offering hubiC for sale.
This service, difficult to use and notably based on OpenStack Swift, was hosting 100PB of storage.
New subscriptions are closed but current customers will be able to continue to use the service for unlimited time at the same conditions. No data will be removed, the storage and synchronization capabilities will continue to be active, as well as web application, API, and Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android applications. But no more functionalities will be added.
It’s clear that there are too many – probably thousands – of cloud storage providers in the world and hubiC is not going to be the last one to close.
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