text: Exodus Outsources Storage | PCMag.com
  Storage is the hot, new managed service that has providers of every stripe giddy over a potential new revenue stream. But storage and Web hosting businesses don't mix, the Exodus deal shows: Developing storage services in-house is so expensive that providers are forced to at least consider the option of outsourcing.
  Exodus, the world's largest Web hoster, has offered storage services for some time, both through its own DataVault unit, and through partnerships with storage equipment makers EMC and Sun Microsystems. Exodus, however, sold its DataVault backup unit to Sanrise in January, and subsequently cut deals with StorageNetworks and, now, WorldStor. The deals let Exodus resell storage services to its own customers.
  "We get called by a dozen to 15 data center companies a month asking for our services, some of whom have purchased hardware to do storage, but don't know how to implement it," WorldStor Chief Executive Paul Battaglia says.