Jungle Disk will be the first data storage service to support multiple clouds
October 27th, 2008
L ast week, Rackspace announced the acquisition of two companies – VPS provider Slicehost and cloud storage service Jungle Disk. While both acquisitions are indicative of Rackspace’s new cloud hosting strategy, Jungle Disk is an interesting case, being a cloud storage/backup service originally based on Amazon S3. JungleDisk uses Amazon’s global cloud service to allow the sharing of an unlimited amount of information through a secure, mountable network drive and automatic backup. The pricing model is also innovative — users pay only for the amount of data they store, per gigabyte, without additional setup and support fees. read more
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Jungle Disk will be the first data storage service to support multiple clouds