Cloud Computing: Rackspace offers Akamai content delivery network service

April 28, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols.

If you really want your web pages to impress, you need to get them in front of your viewers’ eyes as fast as possible. So it is that Rackspace, the managed cloud company and one of the OpenStack cloud parents, has announced the availability of Rackspace Content Delivery Network (CDN).

Of course, while you can just roll out a cloud with enough servers, rolling out a CDN isn’t that easy. You need low-latency storage, such as that provided by SanDisk’s new Fusion ioMemory PCIe flash storage cards, data-centers across the country, and multiple tier-one network connections. Rackspace has the data centers, six throughout the world, but it didn’t have the connections…

That’s where Rackspace’s partnership with global CDN services leader Akamai comes in. With its new CDN offering, Rackspace is offering customers integrated, "one-click" access to Akamai’s industry-leading CDN services via the Rackspace portal…

Read more from the source @ http://www.zdnet.com/article/rackspace-offers-akamai-content-delivery-network-service/