HONG KONG, CHINA --(Marketwired - June 24, 2014) - Rackspace ® Hosting (
Companies in Asia-Pacific are rapidly adopting hybrid cloud to increase application response and scalability, as well as expand the range of workloads running in the cloud. According to Gartner , nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017 (1) .
With Rackspace Performance Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack ® , customers can connect the new cloud servers to dedicated bare metal servers as part of the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud, which can provide an unparalleled level of application performance.
"As a premium international carrier, and the home airline of Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific selected Rackspace for its extensive cloud expertise and ability to provide scalable flexibility across our marketing websites and Facebook presence," said Cathy Hornby, manager digital retail for Cathay Pacific. "Scalability is important for Cathay Pacific as our marketing needs change throughout the course of the year, which is just one of the reasons why the Rackspace cloud-based solution fits our needs perfectly."
With the unique combination of hybrid cloud architecture, open source technologies and Fanatical Support ® , Rackspace provides expert help through all aspects of the customer's experience, from planning and architecting to day-to-day proactive management of customer's hosted infrastructure to help ensure workloads are continuously up and running.
"With companies in Hong Kong and throughout the Asia-Pacific region in need of faster network capabilities to improve connectivity and application performance, we have launched Rackspace Performance Cloud Servers to help meet our customers' needs," said Ajit Melarkode, managing director for Rackspace Asia Pacific. "Now, with Performance Cloud Servers as part of our Hong Kong managed and hybrid cloud portfolio, companies can deliver services faster than ever before while at the same time, have a team of specialists to manage and operate all of the hosted infrastructure activities required to be successful on the cloud. In turn, this allows companies to focus on managing their business, without worrying about the performance of their IT systems."
The Rackspace Performance Cloud Servers are designed with 100 percent data center-grade, RAID 10-protected solid-state disks (SSDs), powerful Intel® Xeon® E5 processors, up to 120 Gigabytes of RAM, and 40 Gigabits per second of highly available network throughput to the host. These servers deliver more total performance over existing Cloud Servers as follows*:
- 4x more total RAM
- 2x more total CPU performance
- 132x more total disk I/O (input/output)
- 8.3x more total network bandwidth
- 2.6x more total overall performance
For more information on Performance Cloud Servers visit, http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/
* Benchmarks compare a 30GB Standard Cloud Server to a 120GB Performance Cloud Server, the largest available in each class. Multiple tests were run for each benchmark and the average score taken. Linux kernel compile time was used to measure CPU performance, fio to measure disk I/O, iperf to measure network bandwidth and unixbench to measure overall performance.
** Benchmarks use fio to compare Cloud Block Storage Standard and SSD volume performance on a 15GB Standard Cloud Server and 15GB Performance Cloud Server. Multiple tests were run and the average score taken.
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(1) Private Cloud Matures, Hybrid Cloud Is Next , Gartner, Inc 2013
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