CentreStack transforms traditional file servers into cloud file servers

If you are a real estate company, you may have many pictures of real estate properties that you want to host on a web server. If you are a car dealership, you may have many pictures of cars that you want to host on a web server. Rackspace is a well trusted hosting company. With Rackspace Cloud Files, it is fairly straight forward to link your Cloud Files account with the CDN (Content Delivery Network) it supports. With CDN, your pictures of houses or cars can be pushed to edge points on the Internet around the country. So if you are hosting a lot of media files on a web server and wish to push your media files out to a CDN network, Rackspace is a good choice. This article discusses a customer case study that easily access the CDN network through the combination of Rackspace Cloud Files and Gladinet CloudAFS .  Rackspace Cloud Files is a kind of cloud storage that can be linked to CDN. Gladinet CloudAFS is a file server solution that can mount cloud storage as a tier 2 storage ...

Gladinet has reached over 750,000 downloads and many users have reached out to Gladinet and send us their feedbacks. When working with these customers, we can see what they want to do with Cloud Storage Services and summarize several significant cloud storage use cases and requirements. Together, we call the use cases the BASIC requirements. BASIC is actually pretty basic, as each capitalized letter stands for: B – Backup to Cloud Storage A – Access Cloud Storage with Drive Letter S – Synchronization of files and folders I – Integrate Local Application with Cloud Storage (Updated 9/30/2011: With the release of Gladinet Cloud, I also means Identity) C – Connect Cloud Storage Services together, Connect people together over Cloud Storage (Updated 9/30/2011: For Gladinet Cloud, C could mean Control)