Ninefold launches public beta of its local cloud-based storage

Ninefold, a subsidiary of Macquarie Telecom, has launched its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, which will be offered free until the end of March 2011. While aimed primarily at entrepreneurs, start-ups and developers, managing director Peter James said that the company is also making the service available to storage hungry ‘mums and dads’.

Pricing is key for the company’s first foray into this highly competitive market, with entry level IaaS being offered at 12.3 cents per hour for the smallest instance which is one CPU, 2 GB of ram and operating system. This works out at less than $90 per month, undercutting industry stalwarts such as Amazon.

Aside from the corporate market for self-managed storage, Ninefold’s storage cloud could also be accessed by consumers wanting a local third-party storage provider for their music and images.

According to Mr. James, “That’s another market for us and we do have an easy way to transport data for the small office and home office and potentially mums and dads,”  referring to the NinefoldFox extension which enables Mozilla Firefox users to upload data to Ninefold’s storage cloud.

Ninefold has posted YouTube videos with step-by-step guidance to assist potential users navigate their way through the process of accessing the storage cloud. The company has also made the cloud storage API available to give users greater flexibility.

Source: http://www.itwire.com/data-management/45968-local-storage-cloud-undercuts-amazon

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