Rackspace CTO to Enterprise: “Wait, Wait … Don’t Upgrade!”
Rackspace's CTO has an odd message for enterprise customers: Just wait a bit, because the cloud isn't quite ready yet.
View ArticleOracle and Rackspace Embrace Open Source A Bit More
GigOm had two great posts yesterday that are worth a read. The first is from Derrick Harris on Oracle’s Big Data appliance now featuring Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution and management tools. Oracle’s...
View ArticleRackspace Buys SharePoint911: A Game-Changer?
Boasting, "The game just changed," the cloud giant Rackspace Hosting today announced it has bought SharePoint911. Why? Think serious SharePoint cred with Microsoft SharePoint users. But is it a...
View ArticleFree OpenStack Time: What Gives?
How does free cloud compute time on a virtual machine with an available 156 cores, 1040GB memory and 59.1 TB of disk storage running the latest OpenStack release, Del PowerEdge C6100 and C6105 servers...
View ArticleRackspace Rolls Out OpenStack Cloud Servers
Rackspace today introduced its next generation of cloud servers, powered by the open source OpenStack software it co-founded.
View ArticleHP Gets Its Cloud On
As HP prepares for the May 10 launch of its public cloud and HP Cloud Services, people are going to start noticing the other HP, writes Alexander Haislip.
View ArticleMore Amazon Clones? Rackspace: No, Thanks!
Does the rest of the cloud computing world really need to clone Amazon Web Services in order to succeed? Rackspace prez Lew Moorman says some customers want companies like his to clone all of Amazon’s...
View ArticleMatching Your Workload to the Cloud
The early days of cloud computing have constrained contemporary thinking about its overall usefulness to application design and deployment. At first, the cloud was almost entirely devoted to using APIs...
View ArticleContributor Content | Open vs. Closed Clouds: What’s Best For Business?
As an end consumer looking at the cloud space, there are two major types of clouds to choose from: open source clouds, championed by the likes of Citrix and Rackspace, and closed clouds, characterized...
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