Nick Carr spots some interesting news: the online storage game is now offering guarantees in addition to nearly limitless cloud-space:

Nirvanax, an online storage utility now in public beta, has been touting its 99.9% uptime guarantee as a way to set itself apart from Amazon's S3 storage service, which has lacked a so-called service-level agreement. Today, Amazon responds by rolling out its own 99.9% guarantee.

He also notes that a new service, Flexiscale, is offering a 99.95% uptime guarantee. Storage is dirt cheap, but these kinds of service level agreements are going to offer value over the closets of cheap disk. Why try to manage your own power, cooling (etc., etc.) when you can pay someone else to do it - and get high reliability as part of the deal?

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