Forget the Rest, Rackspace is Amazon’s Only Cloud Threat

Derrick Harris
Sunday, November 15, 2009
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Amazon Web Services and Rackspace are in a close race.

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The mainstream cloud-computing market is becoming a two-horse race, with Rackspace gaining fast on Amazon Web Services, and leaving an idle Microsoft in the dust. AWS is by no means pulling up lame, but, as evidenced this week, Rackspace is gaining customers and adding features so fast it’s difficult to believe AWS will be able to fend it off forever. […]

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