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Storage - Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Our Own Jungledisk Bought By Rackspace

We have been using Jungledisk to store our media. It's easy and cheap as dirt. So we eyed with interest that Rackspace, which went public with its IPO in August, is buying Jungle Disk, which sells backup software that works with Amazon S3.

Jungle Disk is an agile desktop interface for S3 with versions for the Mac, Windows, and Linux. Jungle Disk doesn't just manage backup, it allows you to address S3 as if it were another local disk drive. So you can use S3 as online storage for files you share between multiple PCs/laptops, too.

And the ~1MB Jungle Disk download is free for now. You set and forget-- it runs automatically at regular intervals you choose, and/or you can also set it to run manually.

The first movers in online backup charge much more than Jungle Disk + S3. These competitors include: AllMyData, AT&T Online Vault, BackUpright, Box.net, DataDepositBox, Elephant Drive, eSureIT, GeekSquadGlobalDrive, iBackup, iDrive, Iomega iStorage, NTI Backup, Omnidrive, Openonomy, Streamload, StrongSpace, and Xdrive (owned by AOL).

RackSpace also bought Slicehost, which allows businesses to host applications on virtual servers.

View - Jungledisk site
View - Slicehost site