I've been recommending Xdrive online storage for several years because it worked, you could sign up with an AOL account, it had been around a long time, and it was backed by one of the web's biggest and richest companies. But none of that turned out to be enough. AOL's Kevin Conroy has sent staff a re-org memo (published by TechCrunch) that announces the "sunsetting" of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile and Bluestring. The memo says:
To be specific:
Translation: AOL used to dominate the web advertising market but now Google has taken all the money we can no longer afford to provide the old level of services.
It's possible that AOL will provide a migration path to other services. However, if you have stuff on these services, you may well need to download it and reupload it somewhere else.
Among the things that the cloud-computing hype-merchants don't tell you is that cloud-computing companies can have catastrophic technical failures, can go bust, or can simply decide that the service you're banking on no longer fits their strategic and/or financial goals. And those are just a few of the ways you can get screwed.
Consider yourself warned....
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