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