Mosso, Rackspace’s Cloud Division, Enables Cloud Files with Limelight
Networks Content Delivery Service
Cloud Storage and CDN Integration Enables Unlimited Online Storage to
be Distributed Across the Globe Quickly and at a Low Cost
SAN ANTONIO (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) November 19, 2008 --
Following its recent announcement that it had established a relationship
with Limelight Networks to provide a faster, and more robust online
storage offering, Mosso®, Rackspace’s® (NYSE:RAX) Cloud Hosting
Division, today announced the release of Cloud Files™ enabled with
Limelight Networks’ (Nasdaq: LLNW) content delivery service (CDN). This
union brings unlimited online storage, scalable content delivery, and
application acceleration services, thereby allowing businesses to more
easily and affordably distribute content to millions of end users around
the world.
Cloud Files, a scalable online storage service, as well as the
relationship with Limelight, was announced last month at the Cloud
Event as part of the new suite of Cloud Hosting offerings from
Rackspace. In conjunction with Cloud Files, Limelight’s robust and
proven delivery service helps enable Mosso to quickly deliver files
around the globe.
"Using Cloud Files for Action Method Online means that we don't ever
have to worry about running out of space, or adding expensive hardware.
We can allow our users to upload as many files as they like while
managing their projects and scale seamlessly with amazing performance,”
said Chris Henry, Co-CTO, Behance. “And with a CDN leader like Limelight
delivering our users' files, we believe we can count not only on
reliability but also on the fastest download time out there."
Limelight Networks operates a dedicated optical network that
interconnects thousands of servers around the world. This network
enables the company to deliver massive files at the speed of light
directly into the access networks that consumers use every day. When an
end user requests a file, Limelight’s network pulls it from the closest
Mosso server, caches the content within their geographically distributed
network, and serves it up at blazing speeds.
“Limelight Networks’ global delivery platform provides Mosso with
world-class performance, scalability, and efficiency, which can help
them ensure that any object stored in the Cloud Files service will
reliably and efficiently be delivered to their end-users,” said Peter
Coppola, vice president, product management, Limelight Networks, Inc..
“This combination of cost effective, unlimited online storage with
Limelight’s worldwide distribution platform is truly innovative, and we
are proud to work with Mosso and Rackspace to bring this exciting new
service to market.”
“The Mosso/Limelight relationship brings full-fledged, robust CDN
capabilities and unlimited file storage to developers and corporate IT
shops alike. We expect Mosso’s new CDN capability to greatly enhance the
quality of the end user experience by speeding the delivery of
bandwidth-heavy rich content, including audio and video.” said Emil
Sayegh, general manager of Mosso. “For literally pennies per gigabyte of
bandwidth and storage and no upfront commitments, the CDN advantage is
no longer only available to the giants of the internet. Together with
Limelight, we have just democratized content delivery.”
Beyond enabling developers to rapidly and affordably serve content with
a simple “right click”, this new CDN capability also adds an additional
layer of redundancy for public content. Other Cloud Files benefits
include:
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Ease of Use: Files can be managed either through an online control
panel or programmatically through language specific APIs (ReST, PHP,
Python, Java, .NET)
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Flexibility: Customers can use as much or little storage as necessary,
while paying only for what is used Stored files can be as small as a
few bytes or as large as 5GB
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Metadata: Additional metadata can be added, and delivered, along with
each file that is stored
Pricing for Cloud Files with CDN starts at 15 cents per gigabyte of
storage and 22 cents per gigabyte of bandwidth from any edge location
around the globe. High volume users receive price breaks at 30 TB of
storage and/or 5 TB of bandwidth. Pricing includes CDN transit services
only available through Cloud Files. Mosso CDN integration is available
today with no additional fees for CDN-based requests. There are no
upfront fees required to get started and end users pay only for storage
space and outgoing bandwidth that has been used. For more pricing
information, please visit www.mosso.com.
About Mosso, Rackspace’s Cloud Hosting Division
Mosso is the home of Cloud Sites, Cloud Files™ and Cloud Servers™,
providing enterprise-grade hosting and storage services. Mosso provides
an easily managed interface allowing developers, designers and IT
managers to deploy reliable web applications quickly and easily as well
as high performance cloud-based storage services. Founded by two
Rackspace employees, Mosso is built upon a cross platform,
clustered-computing architecture. For more information, visit www.mosso.com
or call 1-877-934-0409.
About Rackspace Hosting
As the world’s leader and specialist in hosting, Rackspace Hosting is
changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT. Rackspace delivers
computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry’s best technologies
into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable
and affordable. A trusted partner to companies of all sizes, Rackspace
enables IT departments to be more effective. Rackspace is distinguished
by its award-winning Fanatical Support®, furthering the company’s
mission to be one of the world’s greatest service companies. Rackspace
is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best companies to work
for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted
IT services includes managed hosting (www.rackspace.com),
email hosting (www.mailtrust.com)
and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com).
For more information on Rackspace Hosting please visit www.rackspace.com
or call 800-961-2888.
About Limelight Networks, Inc.
Limelight Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW) is a content delivery partner
enabling the next wave of Internet business and entertainment. More than
1,300 Internet, entertainment, software, and technology brands trust our
robust, scalable platform to monetize their digital assets by delivering
a brilliant online experience to their global audience. Our architecture
bypasses the busy public Internet using a dedicated optical network that
interconnects thousands of servers and delivers massive files at the
speed of light -- directly to the access networks that consumers use
every day. Our proven network and passion for service provides our
customers confidence that every object in their library will be
delivered to every user, every time. Read our blog at http://blog.llnw.com
or visit http://www.limelightnetworks.com
for more information.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve
risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties
materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of
Rackspace Hosting could differ materially from those expressed or
implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All
statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that
could be deemed forward-looking statements, including any statements
concerning expected development, performance or market acceptance
associated with the integration of Cloud Files and the CDN application
or any other cloud hosting portfolio products or services; any other
statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions
underlying any of the foregoing. These statements are based on estimates
and information available to us at the time of this presentation and are
not guarantees of future performance. Actual results could differ
materially from our current expectations as a result of many factors,
including but not limited to: the unpredictable nature of our rapidly
evolving market and quarterly fluctuations in our business; the effects
of competition; changes in the economy, technological and competitive
factors, regulatory factors, and other risks that are described in our
report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. Except as
required by law, Rackspace Hosting assumes no obligation to update these
forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual
results could differ materially from those anticipated in these
forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in
the future.
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