Rackspace announces availability of ObjectRocket

Rackspace Hosting has launched ObjectRocket, its NoSQL MongoDB Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), in Hong Kong. The service will help Rackspace’s customers in Hong Kong to scale and manage big data in the cloud for today’s most demanding applications. The offering is built upon hardware optimized specifically for MongoDB and easily accessed and integrated into existing systems.

“Data growth continues to be one of IT’s biggest challenges – especially how to store it, access it and make use of it. ObjectRocket helps to address this challenge, as it allows companies to effectively process and analyze large volumes of data, transforming it into a competitive advantage,” said Ajit Melarkode, Managing Director, Rackspace Asia-Pacific.

ObjectRocket is a sharded and fully managed MongoDB service built with a set of tools and APIs designed to maximize uptime and reduce administration efforts for big data applications – all supported by Fanatical Support. It is highly scalable allowing it to grow with customers' business needs. In addition, data is multiplexed across many physically separate systems – helping to minimize the possibility of downtime.

Rackspace has precision-tuned its delivery of MongoDB to make it much faster for customers to use. With the availability of this offering in Hong Kong, customers will be able to benefit from a service that has been completely optimized for running MongoDB across all layers of the stack, from the network to the file system and the hardware. It is essentially a power socket for applications; users just plug it into ObjectRocket and Rackspace helps manage the scaling, sharding and performance of the database itself, freeing developer time to focus on the application itself.