Rackspace

Rackspace woos developers with Exceptional acquisition

Rackspace hopes its second acquisition in as many months will increase its appeal to application developers. The new buy, announced Thursday, will see the employees and assets of Exceptional Cloud Services, based in San Francisco, Calif., join Rackspace as a wholly owned subsidiary. This deal...

Rackspace puts Object Rocket in its pocket

Rackspace is jockeying for position aboard the advanced infrastructure services bandwagon with its acquisition today of Object Rocket, a MongoDB Database as a Service provider. Rackspace is hardly the first to offer a Database as a Service (DBaaS) or even MongoDB as a service -- other vendors...

Poor man’s VCE? Rackspace Cloud Builders wants to sell you OpenStack

Has hosting and cloud leader Rackspace found a way into the private cloud fray? A new service offering by Rackspace Cloud Builders will come to you,...

Food fight! Rackspace ditched for AWS

Web company Mixpanel delivered an informative tirade on why they are leaving Rackspace Cloud for Amazon Web Services (AWS) today. The story basically boils down to "AWS is better potting soil for Web apps," although there...

Rackspace opens cloud APIs to the masses

Speaking at the open-source hippie lovefest OSCON today, Rackspace made good today on last week's report that it would open-source its APIs. Rackspace released the API specification under the Creative Commons license....

Big Week In The Clouds

Most weeks are pretty cloudy for me these days. However, this one was chock-filled with exciting stuff. In case you missed any, here goes...

Rackspace Cloud API

Rackspace falls over in Dallas, tweets the whole thing

More than 24 hours after users began reporting Rackspace hosted services were unresponsive, and the main site went dark, Rackspace has possibly set a new record for transparency and accountability, if not customer satisfaction, by tirelessly tweeting the...

Light and dark in the Cloud: Amazon fails, Rackspace punts

In a succint one-day recap of the mouth-watering prospects of using cloud computing and the legless terror it can engender, website gdgt.com autoscaled gigantic traffic, and Amazon's flagshp EC2 service went dark for hours in the night after an electrical...

Cloud draws crowds as Interop winds down

It's great fun watching a big trade show wind down. Day one is all vigor and pizazz and manic tweets. By the third day, attendees are sprawled in the halls, their listless fingers struggling to update mere blogs. At any rate, Wednesday (day three) brought a telling scene. An event photographer...

The Tale of Three Cloud SLA’s

Wikpedia says...

The SLA records a common understanding about services, priorities, responsibilities, guarantees and warranties. Each area of service scope should have the 'level of service' defined. The SLA may specify the levels of availability, serviceability,...