Is Cloud Files™ a great fit for most applications?
Cloud Files™ can be an excellent storage solution for a number of reasons and is well suited for a number of applications: • Backups/archives of your data • Serving images/videos (streaming data to the user’s browser) • Secondary/tertiary, web-accessible storage for your data • Developer friendly for application integration • Well suited when amount of storage is difficult to predict • Simple point-and-click interface via the Rackspace Cloud Control Panel There are some applications for which Cloud Files is not an ideal solution, these include: • Native support within your Operating System. It is not possible to “mount” or “map” the Cloud Files storage system as a virtual hard-disk on your computer. • Disk mirroring or backup solutions that require byte/block level differences. There are no concepts of “append” or “file locking” operations within Cloud Files™. • Data can be organized into storage compartments called “Containers,” but they cannot be nested. Since there is only one top-l
