By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com
October 30, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Webair (www.webair.com) announced on Thursday it is offering a new cloud storage system that enables customers to reduce administrative overhead and increase data redundancy and flexibility.
Webair has already launched a handful of new services this year, including global content delivery network services and a VSYS virtual hosting system.
Cloud storage is one of the most popular storage options available, with recent service launches by eLina, Nirvanix, and Tilana.
Webair’s cloud storage architecture was designed to store, manage and access file-based data and other digital content, enabling businesses to create a single, shared pool of storage scalable to more than 2.3 petabytes of capacity and up to 20 GB/second of throughput. The service offers reduced points of failure and seamless scalability, enabling customers to use as much storage as they need.
“The Webair cloud storage system uses multiple nodes with multiple drives and balances data requests across a vast secure network,” says Webair’s president, Michael Christopher. “Bottlenecks are no longer an issue with data guaranteed to be served from hundreds of physical hard drives, providing unprecedented storage scalability and performance. Webair manages the back-end, which enables our clients to better spend their time improving their bottom-line. Our new cloud hosting solution is a great way to backup any existing content servers, or replace them altogether.”
Each modular self-contained node of the Webair cloud storage contains disk capacity with a powerful storage server, CPU, memory and network connectivity. As additional nodes are added to any cluster, all aspects of the cluster scale linearly including capacity, throughput, memory and CPU processing power.
The service includes a complete service level agreement, dual Gigabit links to cloud storage cluster, direct access to the cloud via SSH/FTP/RSYNC/HTTP/NFS/CIFS, and built in snapshots with direct access.
Webair cloud storage service is priced at $2.49 per GB with 100GB commit, $1.49 per GB over 1TB, $1.00 per GB over 3TB, and $.50 per GB over 10TB. There is also a $99 setup fee.
Webair will demonstrate its new cloud storage service, as well as the rest of its hosting solutions at the upcoming ad:tech NY conference (www.ad-tech.com/ny).
