Rackspace Increases Profits With Help From Cloud Computing
Rackspace, the San Antanio based Cloud Infrastructure provider, announced on tuesday that their profits for the fourth quarter has surged by 32%, increasing from rom $6.8 million to $9 million. Rackspace, which was started in 1998, claims to have 70,000 customers now with over 51,000 cloud computing customers. Even though it is not clear how they arrived [...]
Video: Private Cloud 101, A Rackspace Video
From time to time we link videos from vendors that offers insight into their thinking on various cloud computing related topics. Here is a video from Rackspace on Private Clouds.
CloudKick Broadens its Infrastructure Management Base
Cloud management company CloudKick, a Y Combinator startup, is launching its commercial product and announcing they now support the Rackspace Cloud, Amazon EC2, Linode, GoGrid, Slicehost, RimuHosting, and VPS.NET. The CloudKick offering enables users to control cloud infrastructure from multiple different vendors, all from one dashboard which allows both monitoring and management of an infrastructure [...]
MySQL, Oracle And Cloud Computing
Image via CrunchBase Ever since Oracle announced the acquisition of Sun Microsystems along with MySQL, all hell broke loose in the open source community. With EU questioning the deal, there is a war (of words) erupting inside the community with one side asking EU to block the deal or, at the very least, change the [...]
GDrive, Rackspace Cloud Drive, Syncplicity Drive – It’s a Veritable Driving Range up in the Clouds
Anyone who contends that we’re not reaching some kind of critical mass with complete solutions from cloud services should really look at what’s going on behind the scenes. Initially used for just point solutions by way of SaaS, and then infrastructure plays (Gmail replacing exchange, Amazon Web Services for hardware), we’re now rapidly getting to [...]
Amazon Should Be More Transparent
Late last week, Technology Review carried a news article about a research paper by a group of scientists in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and their collaborators from the University of California at San Diego. These researchers conducted their studies on the Amazon EC2 ecosystem and concluded that it is vulnerable to eavesdropping [...]
Lew Moorman, President of Rackspace Cloud, talks about customers, interoperability and more
Rackspace has been in the mainstream hosting business for over a decade, and was amongst early entrants into the utility computing market with the launch of Mosso back in 2006. Now rebranded as The Rackspace Cloud, the company’s Cloud Computing offering is one of the most widely used in the industry, probably sitting in second [...]
Rackspace Getting Ready To Take On Amazon
Rackspace, the erstwhile managed hosting provider who is pushing hard to be an open alternative to Amazon, Microsoft, etc., took a step towards putting some order in their ecosystem with the release of a new portal called Cloud Tools. Rackspace jumped into the Cloud game with an acquisition of a tool for their future ecosystem. [...]
One Swallow Doth Not a Summer Make
Before any wit comes up with any other suggestions for the meaning of the title of this post, the “swallow” in the above refers to the bird, Stelgidopteryx serripennis, and not the physiological movement, phagia. For one swallow does not make the summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short [...]
Kepes in the Clouds (Sans Diamonds)
My fellow Editor, Ben is to modest to post it, so I will do it: Due to the volume of listener response – including much Twitter discussion #Follow Friday, and #journchat and more — to its first panel on SaaS (Software as a Service) VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network has asked ‘Cloud Evangelist’ Ben Kepes to [...]
Rackspace shakes up hosted email
Image via CrunchBase I’ve just caught up with the Rackspace launch of their latest version of Rackspace Email the other day. Rackspace Email is an email hosting service that is firmly trying to provide an alternative to Microsoft exchange – and brings with it some inherent advantages of cloud computingIt can be thought of as [...]
Another Radio Show…
Actually talking to people makes a nice change from written correspondence. A month or so ago I took part in a really fun live radio show with a bunch of SaaS accounting vendors – following on from that show (and totally due to the good things the participants had to say rather than anything I [...]
Cloud-Bashing Keeps Us On Our Toes
I have a web-friend who’s of-late taken an interest in Cloud Computing and sent me a couple of posts questioning the those of us who herald Cloud Computing as a paradigm shift. First comes the Financial Times where Fabio Banducci wrote using the example of YouTube to refute the claims of Lew Moorman, CSO of [...]
Rackspace Survey And Its Implications
Image via CrunchBase Rackspace’s recently published survey on Cloud Hosting tells us that Small Businesses are unaware of the term compared to mid sized businesses. Before I offer my take on this survey, I want to point out something else. When I read the Read Write Web’s post on the topic, I felt that the [...]
Rackspace Acquires Jungledisk and Slicehost
Image via CrunchBase Rackspace had an event today at Austin, TX where they announced the acquisition of Jungledisk and Slicehost. In fact, they made it a big event with live streaming through the web. I watched the event with an anticipation for some big cloud related announcements. To be frank, I was a little disappointed. [...]
