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Mosso Launches Cloud Storage “CloudFS”

Mosso, a US based and RackSpace backed hosting company, has recently announced the launch of their Cloud Storage beta. You can register at their website and the beta is free.

The CloudFS’ main features are:

  • 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.

Prices have not yet been announced, but the press release talks about $0.15 per Gigabyte storage, which is similar to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

The full press released is included after the jump.

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