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Rackspace Cloud [EOL]

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We performed a comparison between Rackspace Cloud [EOL] and Virtustream xStream based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Featured Review
Rajbir Singh
There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services
RONNIE HENRY
Improves efficiencies, has encryption, and great mission-critical customer support
The equipment that they are hosting the application on is much better than what we were previously using. Once we made the move to this solution,... Read more →
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Pros
"Image backup is a valuable feature. Even though this is a common feature, it is very helpful for us.""The most valuable feature for us is the support, which is really efficient.""There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services."

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"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."

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

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"Our account representative was inexperienced, they could improve on how they are managing accounts."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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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  • "The solution is a bit expensive, we are still negotiating the price."

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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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    20th
    out of 67 in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
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    Overview

    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.

    Virtustream's xStream Management Platform provides a unified, cloudagnostic control plane that integrates infrastructure orchestration, enterprise application automation and a suite of business intelligence and service management tools.
    Sample Customers
    3D Capacity, Acquity Group, Axios Systems, Behance, Blastro, Dominos Pizza, and Sage.
    Continental, Domino Foods, Florida Crystals, Intel, Lanx, UOL Group
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business73%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise18%
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    Rackspace Cloud [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in PaaS Clouds while Virtustream xStream is ranked 20th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is rated 8.6, while Virtustream xStream is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Rackspace Cloud [EOL] writes "There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Virtustream xStream writes "Improves efficiencies, has encryption, and great mission-critical customer support". Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.

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