Mosso Unveils Cloud Storage Service
Rackspace Division Ramps Cloud Momentum with Scalable API-Accessible
Storage
SAN ANTONIO (Business Wire EON) May 5, 2008 --
Rackspace®
Hosting’s Mosso®,
the company’s cloud hosting division, today
announced plans to launch a new Internet-based storage offering, CloudFS™,
that will let developers store any amount of data on the Web more easily
and reliably than ever before. CloudFS joins Mosso’s
flagship service, The Hosting Cloud™, and
complements Rackspace’s comprehensive suite of
hosting products including its Mailtrust™
Email Hosting solution and the company’s
traditional managed hosting services. CloudFS will be available to a
limited number of customers in a free private beta for testing and
refinement until Q3 2008, when it will open for public beta.
This file storage offering, CloudFS, allows developers to securely store
a virtually unlimited amount of data on the web connected through
Rackspace’s infrastructure. At the conclusion
of the beta program, the new storage offering will be available as a
stand-alone service or as part of Mosso’s The
Hosting Cloud™ solution at competitive
storage, bandwidth and transaction pricing. In addition, Rackspace
customers will benefit from free local transfers between CloudFS and
their managed hosting servers. The ability to tie a scalable and
low-cost storage engine to Rackspace’s
customized managed hosting environment is unique in the hosting industry.
“Rackspace is focused on developing the most
comprehensive array of hosting capabilities available today. With the
changing landscape of the industry, there’s
no longer just one way to do it,” said John
Engates, CTO, Rackspace Hosting. “Customers’
needs are expanding, and one of our key initiatives right now is making
web-scale computing as value-added and as easy as possible. We believe
that linking storage—an essential element of
most Internet applications—and fast access to
stored data, to a powerful standards-based infrastructure will become a
critical business advantage for our customers.”
Mosso is seeking applicants to participate in a private beta program as
well as encouraging developers to build tools and services around
CloudFS. Developers and businesses interested in the private beta can
visit www.mosso.com/cloudfs
to apply starting May 5, 2008.
Pricing for CloudFS is strictly pay-for-what-you-use. Current plans
target the pricing for storage to start at $0.15 per gigabyte, upon
release, including replicated copies for data protection. This
competitive rate allows developers to scale their storage-related
projects seamlessly and affordably.
“We believe that Mosso is one of the most
flexible hosting platforms available today,”
said Jonathan Bryce, Mosso co-founder. “In
February, we launched The Hosting Cloud platform and have seen strong
demand. CloudFS is the next step in our overall mission to provide the
industry’s most flexible and broadest range
of hosting options—from traditional complex
managed hosting to cloud compute solutions.”
The storage platform will be accessed via a ReSTful web services API and
language-specific API's (.NET, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python), giving
customers confidence that they can quickly and easily store data and run
applications in a business-class, standards-based environment.
CloudFS builds on Mosso’s recently launched
service, The Hosting Cloud, created to give developers access to the
benefits of cloud computing without the technical complexities and
trade-offs associated with existing solutions. By utilizing The Hosting
Cloud, developers do not need to worry about underlying technology such
as servers, virtual private servers or operating systems.
CloudFS was developed in collaboration with Rackspace's R&D division,
RackLabs. To learn more about CloudFS, visit their blog: http://blog.racklabs.com.
About Mosso
Mosso, LLC is the home of The Hosting Cloud and CloudFS, providing
enterprise-grade hosting and storage services. Mosso provides an easily
managed interface so that developers, designers and IT managers can
deploy reliable web applications quickly and easily as well as a high
performance cloud-based storage service. Founded by two Rackspace
employees, The Hosting Cloud is built upon a cross platform,
clustered-computing architecture. For more information, visit www.mosso.com
or call 1.877.934.0409.
About Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace Hosting delivers hosted IT systems and computing to businesses
of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization
and expertise, backed by the company’s
award-winning Fanatical Support®. Customers
can receive benefits such as higher quality, lower cost and better
performance from Rackspace’s vast knowledge
of industry best-practices. Because Rackspace removes the burden of IT
systems maintenance and management, customers can focus on key areas
that differentiate their business. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted
services includes managed hosting (www.rackspace.com),
email hosting (www.mailtrust.com)
and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com).
Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s
100 Best companies to work for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list. For
more information on Rackspace Hosting please visit www.rackspace.com
or call 800.961.2888. Visit our blog at www.rackspace.com/blog
for further news and opinions.
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