Cloud Computing: Rackspace Promotes ObjectRocket MongoDB as a Service
February 15, 2014
Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Jessica Davis.
MongoDB may or may not be on most MSPs’ radar. Yet. But the fact that one big cloud services provider is heavily promoting customer use cases for its new cloud-hosted value-added MongoDB as a service indicates that maybe it should be on your radar.
About a year after its acquisition of MongoDB as a service provider ObjectRocket, Rackspace (RAX) has begun promoting customer use cases of the service. MongoDB, an open source noSQL database (often used for big data analytics and scaling large volumes of mobile app data) came up recently in the company’s quarterly earnings call with analysts, and also in a webcast that looked at two use cases of the technology…
This kind of service may play a bigger role in Rackspace’s strategy going forward. The promotion comes as Rackspace has made some changes in its top management and committed to focusing on its value-added cloud services and hosting rather than making an effort to try to compete head-to-head with commodity public cloud providers Google (GOOG) and Amazon (AMZN)…
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