Nirvanix, a company that claims to be the “premier Cloud Storage platform provider,” hopes to rain all over Amazon.com’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Like many managed storage providers, Nirvanix is trying to simultaneously counter Amazon.com while also cashing in on publicity around the S3 network.
In fact, Nirvanix has announced a 30-day “fee holiday” for all uploads from any source — including Amazon S3 to a new account on the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN). For a company with 50 terabytes of data, the offer can eliminate more than $9,000 in set-up costs, Nirvanix asserts.
The move reinforces increasingly fierce competition in the managed storage market. While some MSPs — such as Computer Network Solutions — continue to build out managed storage services, other MSPs are worried about low-cost competition from Symantec Protection Network, Amazon.com S3 and other fast-growing alternatives.
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If I am a Rackspace client with a powerful server and half tera database. I want to push this data to this provider, with standard dial (1GB transfer per month), it will take 500 month to transfer my data to Nirvanix. If I want to speed it up, I would have to pay to Rackspace serious money for the upload speed.
Do you still believe in Storage Delivery? If you do believe, request a quote for additional 50GB data transfer per month to be able to push your data in 10 month and you will see what I mean…
For those money you can easily come up with your own solution.
Sorry for skepticism but I see only posibility for SDN on premises of the colocation facility and cross connect or private lines.
Digital Edge: Skepticism and debate are always welcome on MSPmentor.net.
Digital Edge: Even a low-end, $150/mo server at ThePlanet comes with 1.5 Terabytes of bandwidth per month–so transferring 500GB shouldn’t be an issue at all into an SDN.
Does Rackspace really limit you to 1 gigabyte per month?