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Rackspace launches cloud app partner portal

Rackspace on Tuesday rolled out Cloud Tools, a repository of partner tools, applications and services for cloud computing. The marketplace puts apps and tools into four buckets: Monitoring and reporting; Development tools; Systems management; And client software. Cloud...

Tags: Rackspace, Cloud Tools, Portals, Web Technology, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Productivity, Internet, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Rackspace goes for it: Plots infrastructure buildout; Notches enterprise wins

Rackspace is adding cloud and hosting customers at a healthy clip and plopping down the capital spending to go with it. The company upped its 2009 capital expenditure outlook as it builds out its infrastructure and chases enterprise customers. On Rackspace's second quarter earnings conference call, the...

Tags: Rackspace, Patrick Walravens, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Rackspace takes open source approach with release of Cloud Servers API

Rackspace takes open source approach with release of Cloud Servers APISounds good! How does this affect vm's?Is this tantilizing enough to loosen vmware's grip on virtualization?RE: Rackspace takes open source approach with release of Cloud Servers APII like the service at Rackspace but I will say that they have...

Tags: Rackspace, Cloud Servers API, API, open source

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

Rackspace takes open source approach with release of Cloud Servers API

Rackspace’s 43,000 cloud-computing customers played a major role in the API specifications. They overwhelmingly preferred the newer lighter-weight REST approach to the older heavy-duty SOAP standard that Amazon uses. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Rackspace, Open Source, SOAP, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Comparing infrastructure as a service providers: Amazon, Rackspace emerge

Amazon Web Services has the best pricing based on dollar per virtual machine, but Rackspace fills in a few gaps---especially with persistent instance data, according to a report from JMP Securities. In the report, JMP analyst Patrick Walravens surveys the infrastructure as a service providers. The report,...

Tags: Rackspace, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Walravens, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Virtualization, Web Services, Marketing Research, Marketing, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Toodledo service out because of storm

Toodledo , the popular collaborative to-do list service, is out of commission. A storm took out the data center where the Toodledo stores its database. The service notice says the following: So, here's the story. A big storm went through the city...

Tags: Rackspace, Data Center, Service Notice, Data Centers, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Rackspace lays out its cloud computing roadmap: Think hybrid

Rackspace lays out its cloud computing roadmap: Think hybridMake senseWhat the man said makes lots of sense. Cloud computing is a very hype up buzzword. The way to approach it is to separate which services is on dedicated server and which is on the cloudYou might want to develop your...

Tags: Virtualization, ThinServer, cloud computing, cloud computing roadmap, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

Rackspace lays out its cloud computing roadmap: Think hybrid

Rackspace's Lew Moorman on Wednesday will outline the cloud computing roadmap to customers in San Francisco. The gist: Rackspace will push a hybrid approach that tightly couples dedicated and cloud computing resources. The theory: Customers will begin toggling between hosted data centers and cloud computing resources as standard operating procedure....

Tags: Rackspace, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Cloudkick: Cloud provider market maker?

Cloudkick, a startup that delivers cloud server management software, on Friday rolled out a feature that allows customers to hop between providers---Rackspace, Amazon EC2, Microsoft and others---based on price.  At its launch March 16 Cloudkick's service primarily managed Amazon Web Services accounts. In a demonstration at the...

Tags: Rackspace, Server, Radar, Cloudkick, Polvi, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-24

Green tech calculators you can count on, literally

For those seeking practical tools that can help them get a better handle on the energy and carbon dioxide emissions they're producing, I have not one but three different online calculator type tools to point to in this blog entry. They aren't exactly comparable, but serve different purposes that might...

Tags: Rackspace, Green Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Blog Entry, Tool, Forrester Research Inc., Productivity, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-02-19

Gathering clouds brew up a storm

With all kinds of cloud announcements promised at Microsoft PDC next week, rival vendors Amazon and Rackspace have tried to steal a little early thunder with some announcements of their own. This is the beginning of a titanic struggle to establish the top cloud providers, and this week's announcements have...

Tags: Rackspace, Web Hosting, It Services, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-10-25

With the Dell PowerVault MD3000, Hosting Provider Rackspace Is Able to Offer Its Clients the Benefits of an Enterprise-Level Storage Area Network While Keeping Prices Down

To stay competitive, Rackspace must offer fast, reliable storage in a variety of tiers. It needed to minimize the cost of hardware and support, as well as delays in getting parts or technical advice. Rackspace turned to Dell for a flexible, scalable storage platform including Dell PowerVault direct-attached storage and...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Rackspace, Dell PowerVault, Benefit, Storage, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2008-10-01

By Simplifying Its Operations, the Rackspace Hosting IT Team Can Grow With No Additional Manpower

Founded in 1998 in San Antonio, Texas, Rackspace quickly found its niche hosting Web, back-office and database applications for companies all over the world. To stay competitive, Rackspace must offer fast, powerful, reliable server and storage deployment that can support processing-intensive Web 2.0 or ERP applications, plus flawless service. It...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Rackspace, Information Technology, Storage, Virtualization, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2008-10-01

Oops! A Tech IPO!

Oops ... a tech IPO has taken place. Graham Watson, Lanham Napier, Pat Condon and Dirk Elmendorf of Rackspace were in fact brave enough to launch the initial offering of their company's stock to the public on Friday. Just as Between The...

Tags: rackspace, tech, ipo, financial planning, investment, financial services, finance, tom steinert-threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-10

Are more companies refusing to pay more for green IT?

There used to be a perception, not so many months ago, that your company would have to spend more to green-ify its IT infrastructure. But the flagging economy is apparently dashing any hopes that high-tech vendors might secretly have harbored that they could get customers to spend more dollars for...

Tags: Rackspace, Green Technology, Green IT, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Rackspace, as a service

Rackspace subsidiary Mosso this week relaunched its hosting platform as a pay-as-you-grow cloud computing service. There have been noises recently about hosting provider Rackspace's ability to compete with Amazon's EC2 service and similar cloud offerings. Mosso is its answer to those critics. Briefing me on the announcement...

Tags: Rackspace, Pricing Strategy, Mosso, Pricing, Marketing Research, Channel Management, Marketing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Rackspace offers a unique, green way to recycle an abandoned mall

Say you're a fast-growing IT hosting service company adding 60 to 80 employees per month. You're maxing out your existing office space and need some new digs. Stat. How do you expand your company's physical footprint to accommodate more than 1,400 employees at your headquarters without completely contradicting your corporate...

Tags: Rackspace, Site, Real Estate, Food & Beverage, Data Centers, Business Operations, Manufacturing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-02-06

Creating Cost and Energy Efficiency through Outsourcing Hosting Solutions

The White Paper looks at the efficiencies of outsourcing web and online infrastructure in an increasingly volatile and environmentally aware society. Specifically the white paper looks at the benefits of managed web hosting services compared with in-house hosting using a company's own datacentre facilities.

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Rackspace, Web Hosting, Outsourcing, Internet, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2008-02-04

Rackspace - hosting of virtualized systems

Rackspace - hosting of virtualized systemsHow this jive with MossoI thought this was the Mosso model. Mosso is a customer of Rackspace. All this cloud talk I can't take it any more...helpjohnmwillis.comRE: Rackspace - hosting of virtualized systemsJust a few months ago Rackspace proclaimed customers don't need virtualization http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=9788....

Tags: Mosso, Rackspace, virtualized system

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

Rackspace - hosting of virtualized systems

Rackspace announced that the company was going to add hosting virtual servers to its list of services for those needing access to a physical server without having to acquire the server, necessary software and hire an IT administrative staff. It will be interesting to learn how successful this offering is....

Tags: Rackspace, Information Technology, Hosting Company, Service, Organization, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-31