(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud hosting provider Mosso (www.mosso.com) has announced that its scalable online storage service Cloud Files, announced last month, has been successfully integrated with Limelight Networks’ (www.limelightnetworks.com) content delivery network, effectively giving Mosso a powerful CDN for rapid content delivery.
According to the company’s Wednesday announcement, Mosso, the cloud hosting division of Rackspace (www.rackspace.com), said the partnership brings unlimited online storage, scalable content delivery, and application acceleration services to link content distributors to millions of end users around the world.
Previously, Mosso worked with Limelight to provide a faster, and more robust online storage offering, making a faster, and more robust online storage solution last month at its Cloud Event as part of the new suite of Cloud Hosting offerings, however, this new integration will now help enable Mosso to deliver files even more quickly around the globe.
Limelight’s dedicated optical network that interconnects thousands of servers around the world, enabling the company and its partners to deliver massive files “at the speed of light,” according to the company. Limelight’s network pulls end user file requests from the closest Mosso server, caching the content within its geographically distributed network and delivers it quickly and efficiently.
“Limelight Networks’ global delivery platform provides Mosso with world-class performance, scalability, and efficiency, which can help them ensure that any object stored in the Cloud Files service will reliably and efficiently be delivered to their end-users,” Limelight product management vice president Peter Coppola said in a statement. “This combination of cost effective, unlimited online storage with Limelight’s worldwide distribution platform is truly innovative, and we are proud to work with Mosso and Rackspace to bring this exciting new service to market.”
Much like Amazon’s CDN CloudFront, announced Tuesday, Mosso’s Cloud Files is intended to give small to medium-sized businesses enterprise-level content delivery at a low price.
Mosso general manager Emil Sayegh said in a statement, “The Mosso/Limelight relationship brings full-fledged, robust CDN capabilities and unlimited file storage to developers and corporate IT shops alike. We expect Mosso’s new CDN capability to greatly enhance the quality of the end user experience by speeding the delivery of bandwidth-heavy rich content, including audio and video. For literally pennies per gigabyte of bandwidth and storage and no upfront commitments, the CDN advantage is no longer only available to the giants of the internet.”
Cloud Files with CDN pricing starts at 15 cents per gigabyte of storage and 22 cents per gigabyte of bandwidth from any edge location world wide. High volume users receive price breaks for using 30 TB of storage or 5 TB of bandwidth. Mosso charges no upfront setup fees and end users pay only for storage space and outgoing bandwidth that has been used.
Mosso’s Cloud Files initiative has been long in the works. In October, Rackspace acquired virtual private server provider Slicehost (www.slicehost.com) and cloud storage provider Jungle Disk (www.jungledisk.com) to further extend Mosso’s cloud hosting technology and services.
Limelight has also been busy in the past months, enabling hosting providers to rapidly deliver content on its CDN. Also in October, Limelight announced it was reworking its CDN for Microsoft (www.microsoft.com).
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