by Angela Guess
A new article out of the company reports, “Cloud provider, ElasticHosts, has today launched a new cloud storage solution specifically designed for Linux users. ElasticHosts Cloud Storage is specifically built for the needs of Linux system administrators, and works out of the box with common Linux tools such as Rsync backup and SSHFS remote file servers. The new service is immediately available from ElasticHosts datacentres worldwide and can be used as a standalone service or alongside the company’s Cloud Servers, both VMs and auto-scaling Linux Containers. ElasticHosts Cloud Storage provides unlimited file storage on-demand. It dynamically scales as required and is billed only by consumption. Customers can choose from ElasticHosts worldwide data centres to get fast local access in an appropriate data jurisdiction, and benefit from 24/7 support.”
Richard Davies, CEO for ElasticHosts, commented, “Most cloud storage products, such as Dropbox, are built for consumers on desktop computers, or have complicated APIs, like Amazon S3. This makes them cumbersome for Linux system administrators to use. We are heavily involved in the Linux community and were keen to create a solution that meets their specific needs and works with their existing tools; it is actually something we use internally. For example, Rsync is a fantastic tool for incremental backups that is widely used, so when we were designing the storage we knew it needed to integrate with it. Similarly SSHFS remote file servers are very popular.”
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