Rackspace intros Opensource-based cloud services

BANGALORE, INDIA: Cloud company Rackspace announced the availability of cloud databases and cloud servers, powered by OpenStack, along with a new Control Panel.

These solutions, backed by Rackspace's Fanatical Support, expand Rackspace's cloud hosting portfolio, which is used by over 1,80,000 customers worldwide.

Customers can now select from private, public or hybrid offerings and have the flexibility to deploy solutions in a Rackspace data centre or another data centre of their choice, says a release.

Rackspace's open cloud products also give application developers and IT organizations the ability to build, test and deploy applications in the cloud for the first time without being locked-in, adds the release.

"Rackspace is disrupting the current model of how IT is consumed," said Lanham Napier, CEO, Rackspace. "We have delivered on our promise to implement OpenStack in our cloud offerings, and to free customers from the vendor lock-in that they face at other major cloud providers. At the heart of Rackspace is Fanatical Support, which means we put our customers' needs and wants first. Today, we are extending this approach by giving the market an open alternative, enabling them to choose how and where they use the cloud."

Rackspace's open cloud portfolio includes cloud servers and databases, cloud files object storage with a content delivery network, cloud sites platform as a service for .NET and PHP, load balancers, and monitoring.