Rackspace launches Performance Cloud servers in Asia

BANGALORE, INDIA: Rackspace Hosting has announced that its redesigned public cloud with Performance Cloud Servers will be available in India. This new offering creates a hosting platform for a variety of workloads, ranging from web hosting, eCommerce applications to larger scale NoSQL data stores like MongoDB and Cassandra.

The offering will be available to customers throughout the Asia-Pacific region including Hong Kong, India, Singapore and Greater China.

With Rackspace Performance Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack, customers can connect the new cloud servers to dedicated bare metal servers as part of the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud, which can provide  application performance.

Vishal Katial, VP and Head of IT Infrastructure at Ugam, said: "Being able to rapidly scale, and process data in near real time streams, is a critical success factor that helps us deliver the right insights, at the right time, at the right price point, to our customers. Rackspace's hybrid cloud offering helps us with just that. With Rackspace hybrid cloud, our infrastructure footprint has evolved into an elastic ecosystem that can scale on-demand and is easy to manage, thereby maximizing the overall productivity of our business. Rackspace has been a valuable partner in the growth of our business, evolving newer solutions like ObjectRocket to tackle challenges that faced in the big data space. We currently use the Performance cloud in the US and we have seen significant savings of up to 50 percent YoY, while continuing to scale our data footprint with complex analytical models to boot. Now with the launch of Rackspace's performance cloud in Hong Kong, we have more options to choose from as we look to further optimize the performance of our product portfolio, and enhance our business footprint globally."

The Rackspace Performance Cloud Servers are designed with data center-grade, RAID 10-protected solid-state disks (SSDs), Intel Xeon E5 processors, up to 120 gigabytes of RAM, and 40 gigabits per second of available network throughput to the host. These servers deliver  performance over existing cloud servers as follows:

• 4x more total RAM

• 2x more total CPU performance

• 132x more total disk I/O (input/output)

• 8.3x more total network bandwidth

• 2.6x more total overall performance