Nirvanix challenges Amazon S3 hosting

A small company Nirvanix dared to enter into competition with the absolute leader in the distributed online hosting market - the corporation Amazon, which has been promoting the S3 service for two years now. Company executives claim that they do not want to beat customers off S3, but simply provide a distributed hosting of a new generation, the same as Amazon - in the future it will become the standard technology for all hosters. The fact is that starting with the old model, business now no longer makes sense, the “out-of-the-box” model is completely outdated.

One way or another, this is only the second company in the world that provides this kind of distributed hosting services. Nirvanix's hosting service is called the Storage Delivery Service. Potential customers include Web 2.0 application operators, content providers, and so on. The storage rate is 18 cents per gigabyte per month. This is slightly more than at Amazon, but due to the lack of additional fees, Nirvanix costs the average client about one and a half times cheaper.

Nirvanix was founded a year ago, and it rolled out its business offer to the market last October. Nirvanix was acted as an investor by the venture division of Intel Corporation, as well as $ 14.5 million from several other funds.

It is difficult to say whether Nirvanix will be able to rebuild the same infrastructure as that of Amazon. At the moment, they are just building six data centers: one each on the western and eastern coasts of the United States, four more in Europe and Asia.
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via Network World