One of the really useful tools I use is Jungle Disk. It acts as a proxy to my Amazon S3 storage and maps a network drive so I can access my storage pretty darn easy. The latest version of it’s JungleDisk Desktop is a great app and well worth checking out if you make use of Amazon S3.
Yesterday, Rackspace acquired Jungle Disk along with Slicehost a Xen-based virtual machine hosting company. Rackspace’s aim is to use these new acquisitions to support ‘Mosso’ – it’s cloud hosting division which includes CloudFS which offers the same as Amazon’s S3 service along with Cloud Servers using the Slicehost technology.
Moving forwards, JungleDisk will all connections to either Amazon or Rackspace cloud storage.
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