May 12, 2008
By Dennis Barker, GRIDToday

Anyone thinking about storing data in the cloud has another option to think about. Rackspace, the giant IT systems hosting company, and Mosso, its cloud division, last week rolled out a new cloud storage service that one observer says “leapfrogs” Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service). CloudFS is a hosted scalable system that Mosso says developers can use to securely store nearly unlimited amounts of data on the Web, and pay for it on an as-used basis.

“Basically, we’re offering a scalable storage system that can be tailored to the user’s needs,” says Mosso co-founder Jonathan Bryce. “It will appeal to a broad range of businesses, but it’s primarily focused at people who want to integrate massively scalable storage into their applications.”

Developers access Mosso’s storage platform through a …

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