In the last 20 years, storage has represented a big issue in practical terms, when you think about retrieval, growing demands and in exponentially growing amount of data that needs to be kept and protected. Storing a gigabyte of data required the use of a 500-pound machine with the size of a refrigerator. Nowadays, USB sticks gadgets measure a few inches and can store up to a few hundreds more gigabytes of data.

The emergence of software and hardware and increasing use of IT devices along the years led to a boom in the quantity of data to be stored effectively and efficiently. Cloud services stepped onto the scene, and companies such as Rackspace invest time and effort in meeting market demands coming from web giants like Facebook and beyond.

This industry has kept Rackspace pretty busy. The other day, Rackspace celebrated its 6-month anniversary of OpenStack, a community of 40 companies collaborating for the creation of a ‘standard way to deploy applications and connect clouds’.   In mid-January it was announced that Rackspace would team up with cloud optimizer Akamai to create a ‘one-stop shop for hosting, cloud and acceleration services; Akamai features include CNAMEs, SSL and CDN and delivery will be integrated with Rackspace’s Cloud Files service. ‘Rackspace will include Akamai solutions, either as an add-on or as an embedded suite of services, as part of Rackspace’s full range of offerings across dedicated, cloud, and hybrid hosting. The initiative will begin with Akamai’s content delivery services being integrated with Cloud Files, a Rackspace service that provides highly scalable online storage for files and media.’

Rackspace is also investing in its CloudU Education Program, a series of monthly webinars and white papers on Cloudnomics and not only, showing that the company is thoroughly dedicated to its community and decided to improve market share.


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