Rackspace breaks out OpenStack-based block storage with disk and SSD options

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

Rackspace’s new OpenStack-powered Cloud Block Storage comes in spinning disk and faster SSD tiers and lets customers mix and match block size with compute instances as needed, says company CTO John Engates. Rackspace continued to roll out pieces of its OpenStack cloud Tuesday with the debut of Cloud Block Storage.

Unlike its current non-OpenStack storage, this offering lets customers mix and match sizes of block storage volumes as needed with their compute instances. “We used to offer block storage associated with our cloud servers but it came in pre-defined bundles — large servers got a lot of storage, small servers got a small amount. This decouples that decision,” Rackspace CTO John Engates said in an interview…

And, unlike Amazon Rackspace offers both a traditional disk-based tier for $0.15 per GB per month and faster solid state disk (SSD)-based storage, for $0.70 per GB per month. Snapshots cost an additional $0.10 per GB per month…

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