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Anonymous User
Stable with excellent speed and agility
Rajbir Singh
There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services
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Pros
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer.""The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."

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"There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services.""The most valuable feature for us is the support, which is really efficient.""Image backup is a valuable feature. Even though this is a common feature, it is very helpful for us."

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Cons
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified.""For us, the versioning was an issue."

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"It would be nice to have more built-in suites compared to others. It would enable easier integration.""It doesn't offer Elastic IP like AWS. And also we can't configure our server based on region."

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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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    Overview

    SoftLayer provides cloud infrastructure as a service from a growing number of data centers and network points of presence around the world. Our customers range from Web startups to global enterprises.

    Products and services include bare metal and virtual servers, networking, turnkey big data solutions, private cloud solutions, and more. Our unique advantages include the industry's first Network-Within-a-Network topology for true out-of-band access, and an easy-to-use customer portal and robust API for full remote-access of all product and service management options.

    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
    Whogohost Ltd., Skypicker, Infinity Computers and Communications Company, Grace Co. Ltd., Keyword, Uvionics Tech, Tennis Australia, immixGroup, Salesbox, Cxense ASA, Avnet Inc., Komsomolskaya Pravda, Seekr
    3D Capacity, Acquity Group, Axios Systems, Behance, Blastro, Dominos Pizza, and Sage.
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    Small Business73%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise18%
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    IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Public Cloud Storage Services. IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6, while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rackspace Cloud [EOL] writes "There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services". IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS, whereas Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is most compared with .

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