An image from the Tiscali website, promoting the new offering
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud storage technology provider Scality (www.scality.com) announced on Tuesday that Italian telecommunications carrier Tiscali (www.tiscali.it) has launched a storage-as-a-service cloud hosting offering based on Scality’s RING storage architecture.
Tiscali’s new cloud storage service (the linked webpage is in Italian), which bears the fairly straightforward moniker “Tiscali Cloud Storage,” offers a base-level 100 GB of storage, with 50 GB of traffic in and 50 TB of traffic out and no transaction fees. The initial 100 GB is currently priced at a promotional rate of 15 euros per month. Beyond the first 100 GB, the service is priced per GB, per month, as the customer uses the storage.
“Tiscali chose Scality for its innovative approach, performance and reliability,” says Salvatore Pulvirenti, CIO of Tiscali, quoted in the Scality press release. “Thanks to Scality’s cutting-edge RING storage technology, at Tiscali we already launched a cloud storage service for our customers, complete with personalized clients and web browsers. We plan to focus on attracting more customers and solution providers to deploy secure and compliant cloud solutions using Tiscali Cloud Storage as an object-based storage cloud.”
Scality says Tiscali was one of the early companies to commit to using Scality’s RING storage technology as the back-end platform for its storage offerings.
“Tiscali was one of the trendsetters who were early in committing to our patented organic storage technology, Scality RING, as the backend platform for their customers,” says Scality CEO Jerome Lecat, quoted in the press release.
For a company like Scality – one of several firms pitching service providers a platform for delivering hosted cloud storage – a customer contract like a big national telco can mean an important validation of its product, beyond just a source of revenue.
Earlier this month, we covered a partnership between Scality and data protection company CTERA to create an integrated cloud storage and security service.
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Liam Eagle has worked as a contributor to the Web Host Industry Review since its inception in 2000, and as editor since 2003. He has been editor of the WHIR's print magazine since its launch. His daily involvement in the gathering and reporting of Web hosting news and his regular interaction with Web hosting leaders gives him an uncommonly broad appreciation of the issues and tends facing the business. Through his WHIR blog, Liam spots Web hosting trends and offers opinions on the industry-wide impacts of major developments and the motivation behind big announcements. Follow him on Twitter @liameagle
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