Mosso Launches CloudFS an Amazon S3 Competitor
Today Mosso, a cloud provider that runs off of Rackspace and supports lots of languages, launched CloudFS to compete with Amazon S3.
CloudFS is new, untested but a bit cheaper than Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). This is where mainly ‘buckets’ of data of any content type can be stored and retrieved by a unique key across all resources. This is useful for image, content and media hosting and charges by the GB usually less than .15 cents per GB.
About CloudFS
Scalable, dynamic storage. Use as much or little as you want and only pay for what you use.- Straightforward, basic design offering one level of containers (non-nested) for your data.
- Per-account container and file namespace (not a global namespace as with other systems).
- Store files as small as a few bytes or as large as 5GB.
- Add additional metadata along with each file you store.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:00 am
This is good new for existing Mosso customers who do storage at S3. It’ll be cheaper with less latency.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Yeh I think that competition in this space is good just like competition makes any space a bigger focus. The cloud is such a paradigm shift that we need competition to the bigs of Google and Amazon to keep it honest. Mosso having Rackspace backing is great for developers and companies making web apps of all sizes and of all demand.
September 29th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
GoGrid (http://www.gogrid.com) is about ready to roll out a new cloud storage solution as well: http://blog.gogrid.com/2008/09/22/feature-preview-gogrids-cloud-storage/
Also, stop by http://www.nohardware.com to check out some interesting pro-cloud computing videos that are poised to “ignite” some buzz around the subject.