EdgeCast Announces Cloud Storage Solution

EdgeCast Networks announced its cloud storage solution, a highly scalable online storage offering built on the company’s distributed storage platform. The company also said it is waiving storage and transfer fees throughout the beta period.

“Building a CDN business has given us many years of experience deploying, managing, and optimizing online storage,” said James Segil, co-founder and president of EdgeCast Networks. “For us, a logical next step was to open the storage platform to our customers in an easy-to-use, flexible way that saves them money and hassle.”The service enables customers to easily store, retrieve, secure, and serve (whether publicly or privately) data on a no-commitment, pay-as-you-go basis. It allows customers to serve their stored content using their own URLs (or EdgeCast URLs), offers many options for ingest (such as FTP and HTTP), and provides a robust security layer for private content. The service can be accessed via a user-friendly, web-based control panel.

While EdgeCast has set its initial cloud storage prices very low - the median rate is 7.5 cents per gigabyte per month - it is also waiving storage and transfer fees throughout the public beta. The service aims to provide customers with a solution to rapidly increasing storage needs without the need to purchase, manage, or maintain drives and other devices. It is also extensible with the company’s developer-friendly REST API, enabling easy integration to other applications and workflows.