Azure Storage vs Rackspace Cloud Files

Overview

Rackspace Cloud Files

Stacks63

Followers67

Votes25

Azure Storage

Stacks1.3K

Followers787

Votes52

Azure Storage vs Rackspace Cloud Files: What are the differences?

What is Azure Storage? Reliable, economical cloud storage for data big and small. Azure Storage provides the flexibility to store and retrieve large amounts of unstructured data, such as documents and media files with Azure Blobs; structured nosql based data with Azure Tables; reliable messages with Azure Queues, and use SMB based Azure Files for migrating on-premises applications to the cloud.

What is Rackspace Cloud Files? Store it on Cloud Files, serve it fast on Akamai's CDN. 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).

Azure Storage and Rackspace Cloud Files can be primarily classified as "Cloud Storage" tools.

Some of the features offered by Azure Storage are:

Blobs, Tables, Queues, and Files
Highly scalable
Durable & highly available

On the other hand, Rackspace Cloud Files provides the following key 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

"All-in-one storage solution" is the primary reason why developers consider Azure Storage over the competitors, whereas "Akamai CDN" was stated as the key factor in picking Rackspace Cloud Files.

Microsoft, Starbucks, and Yammer are some of the popular companies that use Azure Storage, whereas Rackspace Cloud Files is used by Accenture, Utrip, and RecordSetter. Azure Storage has a broader approval, being mentioned in 84 company stacks & 44 developers stacks; compared to Rackspace Cloud Files, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

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Rackspace Cloud Files	Azure Storage
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).	Azure Storage provides the flexibility to store and retrieve large amounts of unstructured data, such as documents and media files with Azure Blobs; structured nosql based data with Azure Tables; reliable messages with Azure Queues, and use SMB based Azure Files for migrating on-premises applications to the cloud.
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	Blobs, Tables, Queues, and Files;Highly scalable;Durable & highly available;Premium Storage;Designed for developers
Statistics
Stacks 63	Stacks 1.3K
Followers 67	Followers 787
Votes 25	Votes 52
Pros & Cons
Pros 5 Inexpensive and pay-as-you-go 5 Akamai CDN 4 Simple file upload 3 Simple scaling 2 Huge time-saver	Pros 24 All-in-one storage solution 15 Pay only for data used regardless of disk size 9 Shared drive mapping 2 Cost-effective 2 Cheapest hot and cloud storage Cons 2 Direct support is not provided by Azure storage
Integrations
No integrations available	Microsoft Azure

What are some alternatives to Rackspace Cloud Files, Azure Storage?

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

Amazon EBS

Amazon EBS volumes are network-attached, and persist independently from the life of an instance. Amazon EBS provides highly available, highly reliable, predictable storage volumes that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2 instance and exposed as a device within the instance. Amazon EBS is particularly suited for applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage.

Google Cloud Storage

Google Cloud Storage allows world-wide storing and retrieval of any amount of data and at any time. It provides a simple programming interface which enables developers to take advantage of Google's own reliable and fast networking infrastructure to perform data operations in a secure and cost effective manner. If expansion needs arise, developers can benefit from the scalability provided by Google's infrastructure.

Minio

Minio is an object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 and licensed under Apache 2.0 License

OpenEBS

OpenEBS allows you to treat your persistent workload containers, such as DBs on containers, just like other containers. OpenEBS itself is deployed as just another container on your host.

Storj

It is an open source, decentralized file storage solution. It uses encryption, file sharing, and a blockchain-based hash table to store files on a peer-to-peer network. The goal is to make cloud file storage faster, cheaper, and private.

RunAbove

We give you full access to the OpenStack API, which our compute (Nova) and storage (Swift) solutions are based on. This means no provider lock-in and easy automation of all your deployments. You can also manage your account and billing details via our RESTful API. You can choose between Horizon or OVH's easy-to-use web panel.

DigitalOcean Spaces

DigitalOcean Spaces are designed to make it easy and cost effective to store and serve massive amounts of data. Spaces are ideal for storing static, unstructured data like audio, video, and images as well as large amounts of text.

Rook

It is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for a diverse set of storage solutions to natively integrate with cloud-native environments.