SUNNYVALE, USA: Cloud storage service provider Zetta Inc. announces the commercial availability of its enterprise-class on-demand NAS for enterprise IT storage buyers.

Zetta is designed as cloud storage specifically for enterprises, with features such as encryption and data integrity checks that set it apart from offerings such as Amazon S3, according to co-founder and CEO Jeff Treuhaft.

Zetta enterprise cloud storage is the first service of its kind, purpose-built to be a primary storage platform for businesses with growing data storage needs.

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Founded early last year, Zetta has hosted three oversubscribed rounds of successful private beta tests and has stored over the past year and served data across multiple industries including manufacturing, media, technology, education, legal and financial services and across multiple applications including primary data, archiving, and backup.

Zetta has two data centres in Silicon Valley today and plans to add facilities in New Jersey, Virginia, the Chicago area, Texas and Southern California over the next two years. Pricing of the service begins at $0.25 per gigabyte per month, for a minimum of 1TB.

Multiple bandwidth options are available, including a simple $0.10 per gigabyte transferred or a 95th percentile metered rate of $9/Mb. There is no charge for moving new data footprint into the Zetta Cloud.

There are discounts for larger space and term commitments. Zetta said it can find economical options for network connectivity to its data centers and does not expect bandwidth to make up more than 20 percent of the cost of a customer's service.