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Mail.Ru offers to test Hotbox

the Company Mail.Ru launched the service of “hot” data storage Hotbox, based on the Cloud for business. The new service is designed for customers who need to store and distribute large numbers of files. It can be popular media services, online media, sites with user generated content (UGC) or developers of mobile applications.

Hotbox started during the closed beta, which will be free for companies. Application for participation can be submitted at biz.mail.ru/hotbox. The question CNews, how long will beta testing, the company said that its completion will be announced.

Mail.Ru promises that the prices that will come into force at the end of testing, will be “lower than most similar solutions on the market.” Rates will depend on the amount of occupied space, and the number of downloads and requests. The estimated cost of storing data after exiting beta mode will be about 2.5 rubles per 1 GB per month. The cost of data transfer will amount to 0.8 Euro per 1 GB.

Hotbox was already tested such customers as media portal Life.Ru site search for remote work FL.ru and service of food ordering and food Delivery Club. Itself Mail.Ru stores Hotbox editorial content on Hi-Tech Mail.Ru and his other media projects.

Opportunities Hotbox

unlike cold storage, which was launched by the company earlier, “hot” is for storing the data, which is continuously drawn a large number of users. Hotbox is designed for high loads and quick access to the files.

Mail.Ru entered the market of “hot” data storage, launch service Hotbox

Among the advantages of the service Mail.Ru notes the scalability and easy administration. Servers are located in the territory of the Russian Federation, which facilitates the implementation of laws and work with legal entities. In addition, the speed of response of data centers will be higher than if it were a foreign centres of international services.

Hotbox is compatible with the application programming interface Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), which accelerates and facilitates the transition to “hot” storage.

Run Icebox

In December 2016. Mail.Ru launched services of “cold” data storage “Cloud archive” and “Cloud for teams”. They give corporate clients the ability to store on the servers Mail.Ru file backups, including backups, logs, media, scientific, statistical data and operational archives, there are files that are accessed by a small number of users, and does so infrequently.

According to Egor Ganin, head of cloud and business services division Mail and portal Mail.Ru in the first days after the launch of the beta version of cold storage, the company received thousands of requests from corporate clients. Among the applications for Icebox received and orders on “hot” storage, which gives Mail.Ru hope the relevance of a Hotbox in the future.

Also in December 2016. Mail.Ru announced the restart of the project “Mail.Ru for business”, which is now a platform of services such as b2b (“business to business”). Earlier, a similar project was just mail and related tools.