Amsterdam, 22 januari 2014 - Klanten van
Rackspace Hosting in Europa kunnen vanaf heden gebruikmaken van ObjectRocket, een NoSQL MongoDB Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). Met deze op open source gebaseerde MongoDB-oplossing, breidt Rackspace zijn portfolio voor Europese klanten uit met een NoSQL DBaaS voor big data-applicaties. Dit aanbod draait op geoptimaliseerde hardware voor MongoDB en kan eenvoudig geïntegreerd worden in bestaande systemen.
"Ons aandeel in de snel groeiende NoSQL database-markt is sinds de acquisitie van ObjectRocket in februari 2013 snel gegroeid. De beschikbaarheid van deze technologie voor onze Europese klanten is onderdeel van de uitbreiding van het totaalaanbod vanuit ons datacenter in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. We zijn nu in staat MongoDB te bieden met een lage latency en hoge bandbreedte, direct naast onze andere cloud- en hosting-oplossingen”, aldus Nigel Beighton, VP Technology van Rackspace International.
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Rackspace Offers High-Performance MongoDB Database-As-A-Service From UK Data Centre
Scalable Low Latency NoSQL Database-as-a-Service with Speed, Safety and Support
London - January 22, 2014 - Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the open cloud company, has launched ObjectRocket, its NoSQL MongoDB Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), in its UK data centre. With the open source-based MongoDB solution, Rackspace will broaden its portfolio to offer European customers a NoSQL DBaaS for big data applications. This offering will be built upon hardware optimised specifically for MongoDB and easily accessed and integrated into existing systems.
"Rackspace's work to establish a strong presence within the high-growth NoSQL database market has flourished since our acquisition of ObjectRocket back in February 2013. Bringing this technology to our local European customer base is integral to expanding the total service offering available from our UK data centre. We can now provide MongoDB with low latency, high-bandwidth proximity to our other cloud and hosting solutions," said Nigel Beighton, VP Technology at Rackspace International.
ObjectRocket is a sharded and fully managed MongoDB service built with a set of tools and APIs designed to maximise uptime and reduce administration time - all supported by Rackspace's Fanatical Support®. It is highly scalable allowing it to grow with customers' business needs. In addition, data is multiplexed across many physically separate systems - minimising the possibility of downtime in any eventuality.
Rackspace has precision-tuned its delivery of MongoDB to make it much faster for customers to use. As this offering now comes to the UK market, customers will be able to benefit from a service that has been completely optimised for running MongoDB across all layers of the stack, from the network to the file system and the hardware. It is essentially a power socket for applications; users just plug it into ObjectRocket and Rackspace manages all the scaling, sharding and performance of the database itself, freeing developer time to focus 100% on the application itself.
Pricing
Customers will be able to choose from a range of transparent pricing plans based upon individual data storage requirements, details of which can be found at
www.rackspace.co.uk/objectrocket. Customers can also have a one month free trial when they sign up online.
Product information summary:
* Highly Available - Each instance resides on multiple redundant pieces of infrastructure, while databases are replicated and optionally exist in multiple geo-diverse data centres.
* Automatically Scalable - ObjectRocket's RocketScale(tm) technology inherently shards instances, enabling developers to automatically provision and manage instances. Customers can choose from a variety of plans to fit their workload - from one gigabyte to multi-terabyte scale.
* Consistently Fast Performance - The complete stack has been optimised specifically for MongoDB applications. The network stack, file system, OS kernel, and other resources have been configured to make MongoDB as fast as possible. All data is stored on redundant, blazing-fast Solid State Drives. During internal performance benchmarking tests:
* ObjectRocket produced a consistent latency of 2ms, which is 10X faster than the closest DBaaS competitor
* ObjectRocket met all target throughputs, up to 10,000 ops per second, which is three times the rate of the nearest DBaaS competitor
* To view performance benchmarking test results and methodology, visit:
http://devops.rackspace.com/benchmarking-hosted-mongodb-services.html
* 24×7 Fanatical Support- ObjectRocket owns and controls the entire stack, allowing for greater visibility into potential platform issues and faster resolution. With ObjectRocket, every customer receives 24x7x365 fanatical support.
About Rackspace
Rackspace® (NYSE: RAX) is the global leader in hybrid cloud and founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Hundreds of thousands of customers look to Rackspace to deliver the best-fit infrastructure for their IT needs, leveraging a product portfolio that allows workloads to run where they perform best-whether on the public cloud, private cloud, dedicated servers, or a combination of platforms. The company's award-winning Fanatical Support® helps customers successfully architect, deploy and run their most critical applications. Headquartered in San Antonio, TX, Rackspace operates data centres on four continents. Rackspace is featured on Fortune's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For and placed 7th in 'The Sunday Times Best Companies To Work For' listing. For more information, visit
www.rackspace.co.uk
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of Rackspace Hosting could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including any statements concerning expected development, performance or market acceptance associated with the ObjectRocket solutions or services; anticipated operational and financial benefits from the ObjectRocket solutions; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that expected benefits from the ObjectRocket solutions may not materialize because the services are not generally accepted in the marketplace, which could occur due to certain factors including (i) a failure to market the products or services cost effectively, differentiate the products and services from competitive products and services or communicate differentiations effectively, (ii) the reliability, quality or compatibility associated with the products or services, (iii) changes in technology which adversely affect the benefits of the product, (iv) slowdowns in the general economy or technology industry that impact consumer spending habits, (v) internal strategy decisions that impact the products and services, and (vi) and other risks that are described in Rackspace Hosting's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2013, filed with the SEC on November 12, 2013. Except as required by law, Rackspace Hosting assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.