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#SuryaRay #Surya As if to prove Amazon isn’t the only price chopper in cloud, Rackspace on Friday cut prices on a key cloud service and is starting to roll out tiered pricing for other services. First off, it sliced the cost of its Content Delivery Network (CDN) services by a third from $0.18 to  $0.12 per GB. The new, lower price matches Amazon CloudFront CDN on-demand per-GB pricing for the first 10 TB per month of out-bound data transfer. CloudFront prices drop after that.  Amazon does not publish its reserved pricing for CloudFront. CDNs route traffic around the web to put it closer to prospective users thus reducing latency and page load times. Secondly, the new tiered price structure will first apply to Cloud Files Object storage with volume discounts ranging from $0.10 per GB per month for up to 1 TB, then falling to $0.075 per month or lower when storage surpasses a petabyte (see chart.) For comparison, AWS S3 storage prices are lower, but, as Rackspace likes to note, Amazon also charges for PUT, POST, LIST, HEAD, GET and DELETE requests and Rackspace does not. This move shows that Rackspace, with its new OpenStack-based cloud services, is bound and determined to compete with the biggest of the big cloud players. In the past the company has seemed reluctant to compete on price alone, instead invoking its “maniacal support” mantra to justify a premium.” “Rackspace has always responded to AWS price cuts with statements like ‘but we have great service.’    Looks like the market is demanding the cuts,” said David Linthicum, CTO and founder of consultancy Blue Mountain Labs and a GigaOM PRO analyst. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro: Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial. * Migrating media applications to the private cloud: best practices for businesses * How tomorrow’s mobile-centric data centers will look * Cloud computing infrastructure: 2012 and beyond http://dlvr.it/2zr31S @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya OnApp is one of the most interesting European cloud players, as it offers traditional hosting providers a way to fight Amazon by federating the spare capacity in their data centers — it also has more than 500 of these providers as customers around the world, so this is a serious endeavor. Now the company has launched version 3 of the OnApp Cloud platform, taking its distributed storage piece out of beta, improving its content delivery network offering and adding support for VMware hypervisors. The VMware support is a big deal for OnApp as it helps the company’s service-provider customers better target the enterprise (OnApp already supported Xen and KVM hypervisors, and still intends to support Hyper-V). A new feature called Cloud Boot has also been introduced to automate the deployment of hypervisors, and there’s a new support console for cloud administrators and end users too. But it’s the OnApp Storage piece that is particularly critical for the company, Kosten Metreweli, OnApp’s chief commercial officer, told me. This is partly because it solves performance problems for providers, but also because it lays the foundation for OnApp’s upcoming federated compute play. There are two advantages to this kind of federated storage: it utilizes spare capacity in providers’ data centers, pooling it then slicing up the aggregate into virtual disks, and it also removes the typical bottleneck found in the SAN controller. According to Metreweli, OnApp’s unified approach makes for speedier I/O as well: “Other distributed storage platforms that have tried to this have required high network bandwidth to work, so we have introduced a clever piece of tech called VM-aware. Because we know where the workloads sit, and we control where the storage sits, we can say at any one point in time we can ensure there’s at least one copy of the data that you’re storing on your virtual disk sitting on the same hypervisor as the compute that’s using it. “You take away any of the network requirements from a read perspective. You’re getting 95 percent of raw disk performance on what is effectively an enterprise-class SAN, which is pretty unheard-of.” The content delivery network (CDN) boost is also significant: OnApp’s year-old federated CDN was previously limited to static content and non-real-time “pseudostreaming” — think YouTube – but it now also has a livestreaming capacility. “We feel that over the last 12 months we’ve validated the concept and proved that this federated CDN capability can work,” Metreweli said. “We just finished a project with Europe’s largest dance music festival using our distributed CDN to distribute content on a global basis, so now we feel we can take the next step into pushing higher capacity traffic across that CDN. Members of our CDN federation will be able to make more money out of their infrastructure, because there will be more content going over the CDN.” Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro: Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial. * AWS Storage Gateway jolts cloud-storage ecosystem * Federated clouds: for when one cloud isn’t good enough * Infrastructure Q1: Cloud and big data woo enterprises http://dlvr.it/2zFRBg @suryaray

#SuryaRay #Surya Eight months after launching an executive search for a successor to Akamai CEO Paul Sagan, the company tapped its c0-founder Fred Leighton for that role. Leighton, who is also chief scientist for the Cambridge, Mass. content delivery network (CDN) provider, will start his new gig January 1, 2013. Last spring, Sagan announced his plans to step down as CEO at the end of 2013. Both Leighton and Sagan will remain on the board and Sagan will stay on as a senior strategy advisor, the company said. In a statement, Martin Coyne II, the lead director on Akamai’s board said:  ”When we began evaluating our options for the next CEO of Akamai, our objective was simply to have the best possible leadership team in place for continued growth and innovation in the years ahead, and that’s what we’re doing with Tom’s appointment. We conducted an exhaustive review of the company’s strategy and opportunities as we evaluated a broad range of potential candidates. We are confident that naming Tom is the best and most natural evolution of management responsibility at Akamai.” The company also promoted two executive vice presidents. Rick McConnell is now president of products and development and Robert Hughes was named president of worldwide operations.  Both will report to Leighton. Akamai claims a roster of blue chip customers including the BBC, IBM, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard which also resells Akamai’s CDN as part of its public cloud. As the nature of web content  has changed, Akamai has had to adapt to handle more dynamic content and has made a series of acquisitions towards that end. Early this year it bought Blaze for its web site optimization expertise just a few months after purchasing CDN rival Contendo. No one expects that M&A  strategy to change. Akamai competes with Limelight Networks and Level 3 in CDN as well as an array of smaller, more specialized players like Yottaa. Last but not least, public  cloud giant Amazon is both a customer and a competitor to Akamai. Amazon offers its own CloudFront CDN service but utilizes Akamai CDN to speed content delivery around the world. Just a few weeks ago Akamai and AT&T inked a deal under which AT&T will deploy Akamai CDN servers at the edge of its network and resell Akamai services — in effect bowing out of its own CDN business. http://dlvr.it/2fLtK5 @suryaray

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