Cloud storage provider Barracuda has announced its Copy and CudaDrive services will be discontinued as of May 1st, 2016.

This is disappointing news to many. It's also even a little embarrassing because just yesterday I advocated Copy along with other cloud storage systems DropBox, OneDrive, Google Drive and Box as essential and seamless tools for backing up your important data.

Baraccuda has provided its cloud storage services to millions of users over more than four years. Yet, the storage company has decided to focus its business interests elsewhere.

According to Rod Mathews, VP and GM of Barracuda's storage business, the company will mesh the CudaDrive engineering team and Barracuda Backup teams to work on cloud-based backup, data protection and business continuity features. Given these are largely enterprise features, it would seem the unspoken word from Barracuda is there was less money to be made from personal cloud storage as there is for business backup and storage. To Barracuda's credit, Copy gave a generous 5Gb of additional storage per referral compared to DropBox's 250Mb.

Barracuda recommends Copy users avail themselves of Mover to transfer Copy files to other cloud-based storage without having to download and re-upload over your own home network.

See my list of other cloud storage systems to find an alternate.