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HPE Helion

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Rackspace Cloud [EOL]

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Anonymous User
We're hoping to offer it as an open stack solution to our customers. Initial setup takes a lot longer than we expected.
The cost is really a big benefit. It gives us an extra string to our bow. We run quite a big hosted-enterprise solution for customers on the... Read more →
Rajbir Singh
There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services
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  • "The service includes licenses (for operating systems, databases, etc.). Asset management is easier with services like that."
  • "Comparatively, this solution is a bit expensive."

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    Amazon vs Rackspace vs Microsoft vs Google: Cloud Hosting Services Comparison
    Amazon Web Services, Rackspace OpenStack, Microsoft Windows Azure and Google are the major cloud hosting and storage service providers. Athough Amazon is top of them and is oldest in cloud market, Rackspace, Microsoft and Google are giving tough competition to each other and to Amazon also for alluring IT customers. This article give brief history of these cloud hosting service providers and compares the cloud services provided by them. -- Amazon Web Services -- It's hard to find someone who doesn't agree that Amazon Web Services is the market leader in IaaS cloud computing. The company has one of the widest breadths of cloud services - including compute, storage, networking, databases, load balancers, applications and application development platforms all delivered as a cloud service. Amazon has dropped its prices 21 times since it debuted its cloud six years ago and fairly consistently fills whatever gaps it has in the size of virtual machine instances on its platform - the company recently rolled out new high-memory instances, for example. There are some cautions for Amazon though. Namely, its cloud has experienced three major outages in two years. One analyst, Jillian Mirandi of Technology Business Researcher, has suggested that continued outages could eventually start hindering businesses' willingness to invest in Amazon infrastructure. That sentiment gets to a larger point about AWS though - the service seems to be popular in the startup community, providing the IT… Read more →
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    Also Known As
    HPE Helion Cloud, HP Helion
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    Overview
    The HPE Helion Platforms are HPE Helion OpenStack, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, and HPE Helion Stackato, a cloud-native application platform. They are based on industry-leading open source projects in OpenStack and Cloud Foundry and provide enterprise customers with flexibility in software and hardware. With HPE Helion OpenStack and HPE Helion Stackato, you can simplify the development, deployment, and delivery of applications you design for cloud. Enterprises often need to quickly develop, deploy, and scale cloud applications across a mix of public and private clouds. To achieve this, they architect cloud apps to be modular and easy to modify in an agile way. The HPE Helion Platform enables large organizations to gain the benefits of supporting these new types of apps, while still meeting required SLAs for security, governance, and privacy.

    Rackspace is a listed company that specializes in hybrid cloud environments to support your applications and sites. The environments are based on its open-source operating system OpenStack.Rackspace Cloud caters for the private cloud, public cloud, dedicated servers, or a hybrid of platforms.

    Your Rackspace Cloud environment is customizable according to your cloud requirements, and all products work together seamlessly from one portal.

    Sample Customers
    ACA Fashion Software, myLoc, Mendix, Comline AG, Nava Solutions, 20th Century Fox, Zhejiang University, iService Global, Okinawa Cross Head, Creative Photo Cloud, Zuora, Ormuco, Ecad, MyCloud, Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS)
    3D Capacity, Acquity Group, Axios Systems, Behance, Blastro, Dominos Pizza, and Sage.
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise71%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business73%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise18%
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    HPE Helion is ranked 24th in PaaS Clouds while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in PaaS Clouds. HPE Helion is rated 7.2, while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Helion writes "We're hoping to offer it as an open stack solution to our customers. Initial setup takes a lot longer than we expected". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rackspace Cloud [EOL] writes "There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services". HPE Helion is most compared with Dell ECS, Amazon AWS and IBM Public Cloud, whereas Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is most compared with .

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