There are now three players in the OnDemand Storage and compute grid market,
Competition in this space is a good thing and we love the idea of a European startup. Many of our potential customers get a little scratchy when we say we are shipping all their data to a service hosted in the US.
Keep it comin’ guys…
According to this InfoWorld article Facebook is now providing a storage API that in future would allow Facebook users to store their content directly in FaceBook. Here at PutPlace we think this is a great idea and represents a giant leap forward for social networks in providing a more full service offering to their users.
With Nirvanix launching recently with a competitive offering to Amazon’s S3 product we see nothing but goodness for consumers in terms of choice and lower costs. We expect to support all three services over time so that PutPlace users can choose the most appropriate storage solution for their requirements. Expect Bebo and MySpace to make moves in this space in the near future.
Nirvanix which provides a competitive service to Amazon’s S3 launched yesterday. On the plus side they have a price point in the same ballpark as S3 (USD$ 0.18 per GB stored and USD$ 0.18 per GB of banwidth in or out). However they have no compute environment ala EC2 so any manipulation of the data involves a significant bandwidth cost overhead for Nirvanix while manipulation of data on EC2 is essentially free.
Still good news to see a competitor on the horizon, this can only be a could thing for companies like ourselves who want to eliminate our dependence on a single vendor.
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