Rackspace Announces OnMetal Cloud Servers General Availability and Pricing

SAN ANTONIO, TX--(Marketwired - July 24, 2014) - Rackspace (NYSE: RAX), the #1 managed cloud company, today announced the general availability and pricing of OnMetal™ Cloud Servers -- an API-driven, single-tenant Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering. The product is designed for customers with rapidly growing infrastructure footprints who seek the agility and elasticity of cloud along with the simplicity and cost-efficiency of colocation.

OnMetal Cloud Servers are built with an Open Compute design with no moving parts and provide enhanced reliability for large-scale applications. In addition, these servers are optimized for workloads at scale such as databases, low-latency caching and handling a large number of web requests. 

"OnMetal Cloud Servers are an essential piece of our managed cloud portfolio. They provide a significant performance advantage over virtualization-based alternatives at a competitive price point," said Taylor Rhodes, president of Rackspace. "These servers, combined with Fanatical Support^®, provide businesses with a faster, more nimble solution that delivers better overall value with higher performance."

Product Highlights

• OnMetal Compute - Features 10 cores and 32GB RAM. This flavor can power large-scale web servers, application servers, queue processors and load balancers. In recent SysBench benchmark testing, OnMetal Compute was approximately 14 percent faster than the tested virtualized counterpart. The OnMetal Compute flavor also performed nearly twice as fast as its tested virtualized counterpart in UnixBench testing. In addition, OnMetal Compute offers the highest number of cores per dollar versus comparable virtualized products.

• OnMetal Memory - Features 12 cores and 512GB RAM that can power caches, search indexes and in-memory analytics. This flavor is optimized for the most GB of RAM per dollar versus other comparable solutions. 

• OnMetal I/O - Features 20 cores, 128GB RAM, 3.2TB PCIe flash drive, which can power large NoSQL data stores, traditional SQL databases and Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) applications. This flavor maximizes the number of database transactions per dollar. PostgreSQL benchmark (pgbench) showed nearly a 2x increase in transactions per second compared to the closest Rackspace comparable virtualized offering (Performance 2-120GB).

For full results of the benchmark tests referenced above, please see Rackspace's latest OnMetal blog post.