Comments on: Rackspace versus Amazon: The big data edition

By: Cloud Hosting

Cloud Hosting — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:57:40 +0000

Thanks for the interesting update on some of the major cloud providers. It’s good to learn how these cloud providers are expanding into new markets. It IS an exciting time to be in Big Data!

By: Ervin Peretz

Ervin Peretz — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:49:35 +0000

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By: David Mytton

David Mytton — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:18:30 +0000

I’ve said a number of times the reason why Amazon is the leader by some significant margin is because of the surrounding services and tools it offers to go alongside its core compute and storage products.

The Amazon approach for these seems to be to provide them as a service with just a few configurable options. You let Amazon handle the software and infrastructure, just pipe your data in and pay as you scale.

The Rackspace approach seems to be more on the customisability and flexibility so you have much more control and no lock in. This is because their whole focus on the “Open” part of “OpenStack” means if you decide, you can leave Rackspace and run it all yourself. Or, perhaps Rackspace are betting you’ll switch from their cloud product to their hybrid/managed product instead. This is something Amazon don’t offer. It’s cloud or nothing.

By: Chris McLennan

Chris McLennan — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:17:24 +0000

Insightful, very interesting. Another way to look at it is to not force yourself to choose one or the other but to use both. Rackspace, Amazon, and other clouds can live side-by-side in a solution together by using a solution like Ilesfay’s ZoneSync (shameless plug for our new startup). Check us out:
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By: qubole

qubole — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:30:34 +0000

Thanks for the mention, Derrick! Some very interesting developments going on right now… an exciting time to be in #BigData!