Rackspace Object Storage Built on Dell ECS Storage Systems for Secure S3 Unstructured Storage

Rackspace Technology announced Object Storage service built on the Dell ECS storage systems.

Global data quantity doubles every 2 years, making storage, analysis, management, and security more challenging. At the same time, the increasing adoption of AI, ML, IoT, analytics, rich media, archiving, and backup has increased cloud storage requirements from terabytes to petabytes per customer.

Object Storage provides scalable, secure S3 unstructured data storage from user globally distributed data centers. Rackspace leads the industry with transparent, all-in pricing that eliminates fees to retrieving or moving data (egress), archive retrieval, and S3 API call transactions.

“Today, over 90% of enterprises are undergoing digital transformation and evolving to embrace data-centric decision-making and business models. Adopting this new approach increases their flexibility in delivering rich cloud solutions,” said Josh Prewitt, CPO, Rackspace. “We have focused on making unstructured data secure, affordable, and globally accessible to help customers extract the most business value from their information.”

Costs savings and eliminating data egress and transaction charges
Object Storage saves substantial costs by eliminating data egress, retrieval and transaction charges. In many cases, this solution can save more than 80% over hyper-scale cloud storage options.

“Multicloud customers operating modern S3-enabled applications have a new paradigm that facilitates better performance and lower costs, even as data-intensive applications continue to drive up the need for storage,” said Bryan Litchford, VP, private cloud, Rackspace. “Organizations are seeking transparently priced, scalable unstructured data storage that is easily accessible by hyperscale clouds, end-customers and on-premises applications. Customers immediately gain greater usability and significant real-world storage savings.”

Rackspace Object Storage features and benefits:

• Centralized access: Centralized object storage for multicloud environments helps ensure data flows rapidly between clouds without egress fees or retrieval charges.
• Cost optimization: A fixed subscription eliminates billing surprises and guarantees availability.
• Security: Software-defined D@RE FIPS 140-2 Level 1 compliant encryption and data transmission is protected by Transport Layer Security 1.2 (TLS) with an industry-standard AES-256 cipher.
• Multi-tier performance: Guarantee QoS by selecting from multiple performance levels. As requirements change, customers can migrate between tiers with minimal downtime.
• Resiliency: Replicate data across multiple Rackspace Technology data centers in disparate geographies.
• Non-disruptive scaling: As data set size changes, scale up capacity without downtime.
• Low maintenance: Company’s experts build, monitor, maintain, optimize, and upgrade the underlying technology.