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Amazon has a new competitor in the cloud computing arena, with Rackspace debuting pay-as-you-go server instances and an online storage service.
Rackspace, which unveiled a cloud storage service in beta mode last May, this week took the storage service out of beta and introduced “Cloud Servers,” rounding out a suite of on-demand storage and computing programs similar to those available from Amazon Web Services.
Rackspace offers the online services through its Mosso division. A third service called Cloud Sites is designed to help customers quickly load applications onto the Web where they are hosted on “advanced clustered technology designed for high-traffic, high-performance websites.”
Mosso General Manager Emil Sayegh blogged about the new releases this week, boasting of a “comprehensive offering combining a server and storage on-demand service as well as a .NET and LAMP platform-as-a-service offer. You can use our familiar control panel to instantly size your compute capacity, add a site, consume storage, and – best of all – pay only for what you use.”
Cloud Servers will be available starting Monday, with prices starting at one and a half cents per hour, or $10.95 per month. But the service is not as mature as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud just yet, with Mosso noting that “our Cloud Server APIs are not quite ready for this debut – but they’ll follow soon afterwards.”
Cloud Servers lets customers run applications on a variety of Linux platforms, but does not yet support Windows. Amazon already offers a variety of Windows, Linux and OpenSolaris distributions.
The Rackspace storage service, Cloud Files, exited beta mode Wednesday. Customers can store files as large as 5GB, with all data being replicated across three locations. Pricing starts at 15 cents per GB.
In a related announcement the Rackspace-owned Jungle Disk, a service that integrates cloud storage into a local file system, is now supporting Rackspace’s Cloud Files as well as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service. Previously, Jungle Disk supported only Amazon.
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Cloud gotchasBy Brent on March 13, 2009, 2:56 pmCloud offerings like cloudsites and EC2/S3 are only 1 facet of what companies are looking for cloud like services to provide. If you are able to fund a rewrite of...
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18 servers <> 3...By Anonymous on March 15, 2009, 8:44 amAmazon's SC3 service caches data across 3 servers. Mosso's Cloud Files stores it on 18 servers using the Limelight Network == thus it's very attractive.
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Cloud SolutionsBy gapsanders on March 16, 2009, 10:50 amThere are several good cloud solutions out there. I've been using the online storage company http://www.myotherdrive.com for a while and didn't know they provide...
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Rackspace will catch-upBy Deniz Tortop on March 16, 2009, 2:28 pmWith their experience supporting SaaS ISVs all these years, their fanatical support and commitment to Microsoft technologies through their other offerings, I have...
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Cloud9 Mosso Cloud Files access serviceBy Anonymous on April 17, 2009, 9:26 amI’m sure many of your readers are interested in an easy way to manage their Cloud Files containers and objects .. especially, for those who'd like to have more than...
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Check out Cloud9 Cloud Files Manager !!By Anonymous on May 3, 2009, 10:40 pmIt's Faster, Easier to use and has tons more features than Mosso's admin panel for managing Cloud Files content.. Also, you can assign containers to specific users/clients,...
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