What is Rackspace Cloud Files?
Cloud Files, powered by OpenStack®, provides an easy to use online storage for files and media which can be delivered globally at blazing speeds over Akamai's content delivery network (CDN).
Rackspace Cloud Files is a tool in the Cloud Storage category of a tech stack.
Who uses Rackspace Cloud Files?
Companies
15 companies reportedly use Rackspace Cloud Files in their tech stacks, including Accenture, Yodlr, and Catloaf Software.
Developers
48 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Rackspace Cloud Files.
Rackspace Cloud Files Integrations
Fastly, Craft, CarrierWave, Transloadit, and Xplenty are some of the popular tools that integrate with Rackspace Cloud Files. Here's a list of all 11 tools that integrate with Rackspace Cloud Files.
Pros of Rackspace Cloud Files
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Rackspace Cloud Files's Features
- Pay as you grow pricing starting at 10¢/GB/Mo.
- Akamai CDN delivery of your content starting at 12¢/GB
- Use as much or as little storage as you want
- Store files and media of any size
- Highly scalable, redundant online storage
- Cloud Files is built with OpenStack technology
- No long-term contracts
- RESTful API enables developer access
- Cloud Files is Powered by OpenStack
- Cloud Files with Akamai CDN
- Mix 'n Match Compute Platforms with RackConnect
Rackspace Cloud Files Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Rackspace Cloud Files?
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
