Rackspace Unveils Cloud Isolation Technology
October 30, 2012
Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
Having your own cloud is great. But what if you need to isolate different applications and resources from one another? You could, of course, build multiple clouds. Or you could adopt technologies like Rackspace‘s (NYSE: RAX) new Cloud Networks feature, which supports multi-tiered networks across an Open Stack cloud infrastructure. Here are the details, and what they reveal about future cloud trends.
It’s easy to think of the cloud as the place where everything that doesn’t live locally should be dumped. After all, since the definition of what exactly constitutes cloud computing has always been a bit hazy, the simple conceptualization is to treat the cloud as one lose and wild expanse of infrastructure which doesn’t need much hierarchy or internal organization…
But if that’s your approach, you risk ending up with an amorphous, abstruse amalgamation of different applications and data stores all bungled together. That makes it difficult to ensure things like security and reliability, and it undercuts many of the advantages the cloud is supposed to bring.
Cloud Networks
Recognizing the need for stronger organization and separation of different units inside the cloud, Rackspace has unveiled Cloud Networks. The name might sound a little redundant–isn’t the network already inherently central to the cloud?–but the feature is actually quite innovative and interesting…
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