{"id":3743,"date":"2012-09-21T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2372002"},"modified":"2012-09-21T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T16:59:00","slug":"here-comes-rackspace-amazons-latest-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/here-comes-rackspace-amazons-latest-rival\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes Rackspace &amp; Amazon\u2019s Latest Rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeaseWeb, a privately held Dutch-based hosting provider, is setting up in the US with the idea of competing against Rackspace, Amazon and Softlayer. It says it\u2019ll be cheaper.<br \/>\nThe company is one of the largest hosting providers in Europe. OCOM, its parent company, is one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the Netherlands. It offers dedicated servers, colocation, cloud hosting, content delivery (CDN) and hybrid solutions.<br \/>\nLeaseWeb has hired William Schrader as CEO of its USA unit. Schrader was co-founder of the world\u2019s first commercial ISP, PSINet, which dominated the market in the 1990s and was good for $16 billion at its peak, serving a reported 60% of the Fortune 500 in 30 countries. He previously had an advisory role at AIS Network, the managed, cloud and applications hosting provider.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2372002\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeaseWeb, a privately held Dutch-based hosting provider, is setting up in the US with the idea of competing against Rackspace, Amazon and Softlayer. It says it\u2019ll be cheaper.<br \/>\nThe company is one of the largest hosting providers in Europe. OCOM, its p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}