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CLOUD COMPUTING EXPLAINED

Public Cloud, Private Cloud or Hybrid?

Private Cloud

We have two solutions –

Private Cloud: Virtualised by VMware®:

Private Cloud: Virtualised by VMware® eliminates the headaches and personnel requirements associated with running a data center, managing hypervisors, supporting virtualisation, provisioning and maintaining virtual servers. Rackspace has extensive experience designing, running and supporting VMware-based environments for organizations of all sizes.

Rackspace® Cloud: Private Edition combines Opens external link in new window OpenStack™powered reference architecture with cloud operations and software support from Rackspace. With Rackspace Certified Deployment Partners and remote management tools, Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition offers multiple deployment options (Rackspace data centre, on-premise at customer data centre or Equinix).

Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition is more than virtualisation, it uses the OpenStack™ open source cloud operating system to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a flexible and massively scalable cloud computing platform.

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Private Cloud

CLOUD FILES

CLOUD FILES provide infinite scalability and allow developers to easily distribute content to millions of end users around the world. Provides you and your applications unlimited online storage for media – items like backups, video files, or user content. And in an industry first, you can deliver that content to your users at blazing speeds over Akamai.

Scalable, dynamic storage. Use as much or little as you want and only pay for what you use.
Manage files through our online control panel or programmatically through our REST API.
Serve files publicly at high speeds through Akamai CDN technology.

CLOUD SERVERS

CLOUD SERVERS creates innovative new features driven through shared intellectual property. Cloud Servers gives you instant computing power, serving your applications with maximum flexibility and efficiency. Deploy one to hundreds of cloud servers instantly, for as long (or little) as you need them.

Full root access and rebooting
Choice of Linux & Windows distro
Dedicated IP address & Tier-1 redundant bandwidth
RAID-10 disk storage
Reserved RAM
4-core servers running Xen virtualisation instances
Management portal for reboots & software installs

HYBRID HOSTING

Rackspace Hosting not only has both traditional managed hosting solutions and newer cloud hosting solutions but we also offer hybrid solutions, enabling you to benefit from the best of both types of hosting.

We know that for some things you just have to have a dedicated server, for security or stability reasons. For others traffic is more spikey and less predictable and so you don't want to have to pay for what you don't need all the time. It's just not cost effective. The beauty of a hybrid solution means you can have the best of both worlds!

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