Rackspace Private Cloud: Repackaging Fanatical Support Around OpenStack
Yesterday Rackspace announced Rackspace Cloud Private Edition, a repackaging of their Cloud Builder services around the OpenStack product. If you want to hear a purely open source perspective on this move, I recommend you to read Christian Reilly’s article on the topic. However, I am going to approach the topic from the business strategy point [...]
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 [...]
