They are located in Switzerland and their storage is either there or in the EU (meaning, very good data protection!). While some EU countries do cooperate under the "Eyes" Agreement, at the very least data is under GDPR protection.

My issue so far was that pricing for cloud storage is....difficult. If I want cloud storage in my country, the price is high and/or the volume is low. But pCloud are offering plans at 1 TB, 2 TB or 10 TB at lifetime subscriptions. I opted for the 2 TB plan (which is also the storage I have on Dropbox at the moment) and I paid less than I pay for 3 years on Dropbox. Assuming pCloud will still be around in 3 years, it paid for itself (I will keep my Dropbox for the period I already paid for but hey), because they're currently running a 33% off sale.

I make no money from this link, you can also google this one, I just think it's so neat to have an alternative.

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Bitcasa launches the Infinite Cloud Storage in the UK and Europe

Today Bitcasa, the inventor of secure infinite storage across all devices, is launching its Infinite Drive in the UK and Europe with new support for 10 languages and local UK and Euro currencies. Bitcasa is also unveiling a completely new mobile design along with performance updates that dramatically improves usability. For only £7/€8 per month, consumers can safely store and instantly access infinite amounts of photos, videos, music or share files without having to worry about capacity constraints. Bitcasa infinite storage is available on iOS, Android, Mac desktop, Windows Desktop, Windows RT and the Web.

Welcome to the Bitcasa Infinite Drive from Bitcasa on Vimeo.

Tony Gauda, CEO and co-founder of Bitcasa, explained, “Instead of having a hard drive, imagine if you could install software that acts as a virtual hard drive but literally never runs out of space, and you can instantly access and share that content on any device you own. This is Bitcasa,” explained Tony Gauda, CEO and co-founder, Bitcasa. “

By 2016, the average household will increase its digital content from 464 gigabytes to 3.3 terabytes.[1] Bitcasa is solving this capacity challenge with its Infinite Drive, which provides no limits when it comes to keeping your precious content safe and secure, including family photos and videos, work documents or your entire media library–gigabytes no longer matter.

Tony added, “With the addition of international languages and currency, as well as a beautiful new mobile design we are redefining the storage experience for consumers around the world.”

Since its US beta launch in 2011, Bitcasa’s global user base has been growing steadily — 30 percent of its users are already based in Europe, with 5 percent of those in the U.K.  To support the European market, Bitcasa has also added a data centre in Ireland to ensure fast file upload and streaming performance. Also, to read about the new mobile and performances updates click here

What makes Bitcasa the first choice for users?

Bitcasa is designed to meet all your future storage needs. The Infinite Drive solves the real-world problems of storage shortage, data loss, and trapped user files:

Infinite Storage:  Users will never run out of space no matter how many photos, songs or films they have. Users can also reclaim space on their devices by moving big files off to Bitcasa.

Vault Security:  With client-side encryption, all files are encrypted before it leaves the PC. Not even the Bitcasa team can view user files – it is bank-grade security and ultimate privacy.

Fast Sharing: Sharing files has never been faster. With a simple ‘Send to Friend’ web link, recipients can click to start streaming any song or video, or view entire photo albums of any size – gigabytes simply no longer matter.

Time Machine Back-up: Automatic back-up requires no effort on your part and ensures all your files are protected and have time-machine versioning.

Simple Mobile Streaming: Files are no longer trapped on user devices. All files can be accessed on any device via a browser or Bitcasa app. Pick your song or video, and it is instantly streamed to your mobile device. That is the future of storage, simplified.

  Pricing

To celebrate the launch in Europe, Bitcasa will be offering a special 20-percent discount of £55/€60 for a year of Infinite Storage. This special introductory price will be available through August 31, 2013 when users enter the promotional code: UKEU20.

Cloud based file storage, such as Dropbox is rapidly taking the place of the hard drives on our PC’s, laptops and portable media devices. You may be searching for an alternative to Dropbox and there are many available with equal features, packages and storage capacity.

Barracuda Networks has upped the amount of storage on its free Copy.com service from 5GB to 15GB (+5GB per referral). Which has pushed me to finally create an account and test the waters of this new service.

The first thing I noticed was the company that was offering the cloud service (Barracuda Networks). Barracuda is reputable and well known brand for their security products, including products for protection against email, web surfing, web hackers and instant messaging threats such as spam, spyware, trojans, and viruses. This is definitely one of the areas that cloud storage companys have come under fire as of late - and I believe that Barracuda's Copy.com can raise the bar in those regards.

My signup and usability experience was the same with Dropbox, the seamlessness of the sign-up to first file uploaded was very reminiscent of why Dropbox was a such a popular option in the first place. If you are a current subscriber to Dropbox, then you will have no problems adapting to Copy.

Now here's the kicker, the usability difference is almost non-existent, there are no extra bills and whistles with Copy, just extra space. Meanwhile I've capped out on the free space at Dropbox (almost 20GB) after capping out my referrals, I started with 20GB just for signing up at Copy.com using a referral link: https://copy.com?r=7wGGOb My referral link (above) if you wanted to get an additional 5GB and help both of us out! Also anyone that is willing to tweet about Copy.com gets another 2 GB (22GB in total).

Currently there is no limit to the amount of extra space you can obtain from referrals (5GB/referral) with some users already obtaining over 1TB. According to Copy, the 5GB/referral is a limited time opportunity to rack up huge amounts of extra free storage while they build the initial buzz around Copy!

Some other differences I must tell you about is that Copy.com also supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, and iOS vis-a-vis programs and apps. I've tested the iOS app, and it is as seamless and intuitive as the website. This wide variety of support will make syncing your data and documents across all platforms an ease.

Below are are the pricing options for paid plans, which are very reasonable if you are willing to pay: