Published by Redmond Developer News on September 8th, 2010 |
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Evans Data Corp. released the results of a Cloud Development Survey over the summer, which indicated that many developers view Windows Azure as a viable alternative for applications running on servers in a public cloud.
Published by The WHIR on September 8th, 2010 |
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Web hosting and cloud computing provider Rackspace Hosting (www.rackspace.com) has launched the Rackspace Cloud Plug-In for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, enabling .NET developers to easily build on Rackspace Cloud Servers for Windows.
Published by Cloud Computing Journal on September 8th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting on Wednesday announced the Rackspace Cloud Plug-In for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, a Visual Studio toolkit that enables the 6 million .NET developers worldwide to seamlessly extend development and deployment to Rackspace Cloud Servers for Windows.
Published by SearchCloudComputing on September 8th, 2010 |
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Rackspace has taken a stab at the Windows developer crowd with a new add-on for the popular Visual Studio (VS) development platform. The Rackspace Plug-In for Visual Studio 2010 links user sessions with an existing Rackspace Cloud account, so Windows servers can be spun up, down and configured right from the console.
Published by ZDNET on September 8th, 2010 |
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Cloud hosting provider Rackspace rolled out on September 8 a new toolkit for customers who want to develop and deploy to its Cloud Servers for Windows service.
The new tookit, known as the Rackspace Cloud Plug-In for Visual Studio 2010, was developed by Microsoft Gold partner Neudesic.
Published by CloudTweaks.com on September 7th, 2010 |
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Rackspace is a cloud based web hosting application. You can host your blogs on Rackspace using WordPress, the most used and popular CMS blogging application tool on the market.
Published by SD Times on September 1st, 2010 |
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Rackspace has offered up an intriguing new open-source project. While everyone else was preparing feverishly for the release of StarCraft II, Rackspace was quietly showing off its own data center operating system.
Published by CNET on September 1st, 2010 |
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While much of the global economy struggles with creating jobs, the high-tech industry has had a better record than most. Yes, there are conflicting reports about IT job growth overall. But in general, the market remains quite strong for technologists.
Published by National UnderWriter on August 30th, 2010 |
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Cloud computing has become a vitally important part of the information technology landscape.
A recent survey by London-based independent research firm Loudhouse found that approximately 51 percent of organizations are now utilizing cloud services as part of their IT infrastructure. There is growing concern, however, that cloud computing poses a security risk, and that risk is being debated throughout the technology community.
Published by My SA Business Journal on August 30th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting Inc. has a new competitor in the cloud computing market, on which the San Antonio company is trying to put its stamp.
There will be some overlap between Rackspace's offering and the new software, and an analyst said it means Rackspace has a potential competitor or a potential partner in cloud computing, depending on how the companies choose to go forward.
Published by Boris Asides on August 29th, 2010 |
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I imagine what Rackspace gets out of this is, that if successful, they will at least have some sort of leverage with Amazon. Amazon is a machine. Amazon executes to perfection and they release new features at a relentless pace with no signs of slowing down. They don't leave much of a door open for others to get into the game.
Published by Cloud Computing Journal on August 28th, 2010 |
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OpenStack, the new open source kid on the cloud block, has spawned an adjacent front-end project, an OpenStack iPad app based on the Rackspace Cloud Pro iPad app currently in the App Store.
Published by iClarified on August 27th, 2010 |
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Files, a popular file management app for the iPhone and iPad, has been updated with support for Rackspace Cloud Files, numerous bug fixes and more.
Published by ReadWriteWeb on August 27th, 2010 |
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In the past few days we have seen two new initiatives that involve companies known for their open-source roots.
Red Hat announced it is open-sourcing its Deltacloud API. Eucalyptus is teaming with New Scale, rPath and MomentumSI to provide a self-serve cloud deployment service.
Published by CloudAve on August 26th, 2010 |
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After Openstack was launched with much fanfare during OSCON, there has been a flurry of activity on the development community with thousands of contribution from hundreds of developers. Even though the main contribution is towards compute and storage, there are many smaller projects underway in the Openstack ecosystem. One such project is the iPad app for Openstack
Published by Giga Om on August 25th, 2010 |
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For a long time, Eucalytpus Systems’ flagship customer was NASA, which was using the company’s open-core cloud software as the foundation its Nebula project. When the OpenStack project launched last month, we learned that co-leader (along with Rackspace) NASA had abandoned Eucalyptus to roll its own malleable, vastly scalable cloud code.
Published by CRN on August 24th, 2010 |
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While the typical small business has at least implemented basic technology such as tape or optical storage to back up its data, solution providers looking to help these companies find better ways to protect their data in case of a disaster can now explore low-cost storage clouds.
Published by Sys-Con on August 24th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting has gone GA with its beta Cloud Servers for Windows. The new service is supposed to deliver a highly scalable environment ideal for Windows-based hosting, testing and developing applications or "supporting the high levels of traffic required for launching online gaming platforms or the next social networking phenomenon."
Published by The Register on August 23rd, 2010 |
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OpenStack – the open source cloud computing fabric launched by NASA and Rackspace Hosting at the end of July – has added support for additional hypervisors.
Published by ComputerWorld on August 23rd, 2010 |
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Rackspace uses a container storage method where applications talk via an API. In turn, the API supports Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, C#/.Net, which run over an HTTPS REST transport. It's all coded, but it's not complex to do.
Published by ComputerWorld on August 23rd, 2010 |
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The services that we tested were Amazon S3, Rackspace's CloudFiles, Egnyte's On Demand File Server, Nasuni Cloud Storage, and Nirvanix's Storage Delivery Network.
Amazon, Rackspace and Nirvanix represent the containerized/object-oriented model.
Published by The Web Hosting Hero on August 23rd, 2010 |
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Rackspace was one of the early movers and shakers in the world of cloud computing, with their Cloud Servers offering bringing users the critical advantage of instantly scalable servers. The offering lets you get online within minutes, with access to a control panel that lets you stay in control.
Published by Forbes.com on August 13th, 2010 |
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Augustine has thrown her company deep into "the cloud." She does not have a server. She does not have a local area network. All of her software, databases and files are hosted by a company called Rackspace Hosting. Why? "I'm not a technology person," she says. "I'm an accounting person. I'll let someone else worry about the technology."
Published by It ProPortal on August 12th, 2010 |
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Cloud service provider Rackspace Hosting has rolled out its new cloud servers for Microsoft Windows, targeted at SMBs, .NET developers and system administrators.
Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/8/12/rackspace-unveils-cloud-servers-windows/#ixzz0wny0QzMV
Published by IT Business Edge on August 12th, 2010 |
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Traditional hosting providers are getting a lot more serious about competing for every cloud computing dollar. This week, for example, Rackspace announced the general availability of its cloud computing services based on a Windows server.
Published by HPC in the Cloud on August 12th, 2010 |
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This morning cloud services vendor Rackpace announced that it was opening cloud servers for Microsoft Windows, with distinct focus on system administrators and .NET developers as well as, of course, the SMB market—which seems to be the focal point of attack for Microsoft’s current cloud initiatives as of late.
Published by E Week Europe on August 11th, 2010 |
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Though the majority of servers offered in public clouds are Linux-based, hosting company Rackspace has launched Windows cloud servers, while announcing a big boost in its revenue from the cloud.
Published by CBR on August 11th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting has introduced Cloud Servers for Windows offering, which delivers a scalable environment for Windows-based hosting, testing and developing applications.
Published by SearchCloudComputing on August 11th, 2010 |
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Rackspace's Cloud Servers offering is now available on Windows, so businesses that use Microsoft Windows and Microsoft .NET (and for some reason have neglected both Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2) will have access to Rackspace's scalable cloud computing environment.
Published by Trading Markets.com on August 10th, 2010 |
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Last year, the cloud cognoscenti set out to clarify definitions. What is cloud? What isn't cloud? What does it mean for the present and the future? This year, the focus is on adoption patterns and entry points -- where enterprises are making use of cloud, finding value and gaining traction with their initiatives.
Published by Tech Republic on August 10th, 2010 |
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Store files in this simple and elegant file server that connects to the cloud. Store your company's files with cloud storage providers Amazon, Iron Mountain, Rackspace or Nirvanix using Nasuni's virtual file server.
Published by 4 Traders on August 10th, 2010 |
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Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the world's leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing, today announced the general availability of its Cloud Servers? for Windows offering
Published by SearchCloudComputing on August 10th, 2010 |
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Rackspace's latest 10-Q shows the company sitting pretty in the cloud. Maybe not as pretty as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its reported $500 million in cloud bucks, but Rackspace may actually be growing faster than the online bookstore when it comes to cloud computing.
Published by San Antonio Business Journal on August 10th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting has released its Cloud Servers for Windows offering.
The company’s Cloud Servers for Windows is now available for businesses that use Microsoft Windows and Microsoft.NET technologies.
Published by The Whir on August 10th, 2010 |
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Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting (www.rackspace.com) announced on Tuesday it has begun general availability of its Cloud Servers for Windows offering.
Published by IT News on August 9th, 2010 |
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Canberra-based Cloud Central has struck a deal with global software firm enStratus to form part of an aggregated network of cloud computing providers that includes Amazon.com's AWS, Microsoft's Azure, Rackspace and Google.
Published by ZDNet on August 9th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting’s second quarter results topped estimates as revenue surged from the year ago quarter. The hosting and cloud computing company said revenue was $187.3 million, up 23.2 percent from a year ago (statement). Of that sum, managed hosting revenue was $164.1 million. Cloud computing revenue was $23.2 million.
Published by Bank Systems & Technology on August 9th, 2010 |
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the U.S. arm of Dutch banking giant ING (US$1.7 trillion in total assets), first became interested in cloud computing when it began estimating the current and future cost and time required to run certain applications, according to Alan Boehme, SVP, IT strategy and enterprise architecture, at ING Americas.
Published by eChannelLine on August 8th, 2010 |
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Rackspace in December 2009, Chris spent 12 years in the IT industry including time with 3Com and most recently with Extreme Networks working on its North American channel business and worldwide strategic alliances. Rackspace has recently signed a distribution contract with Ingram Micro and have become a leading Vendor in Ingram's newly established Cloud Conduit.
Published by Forbes on August 5th, 2010 |
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Rackspace is one of the premier providers of data center capacity, whether on dedicated servers or its newer cloud offerings, and is a favorite of Web startups. The Rackspace Cloud allows customers to activate new servers on demand and scale computing resources up or down "at a moment's notice."
Published by Information Management on August 4th, 2010 |
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Like any new tool, cloud computing promises vast utility and savings-and casts almost as much uncertainty.BTN polled a group of technology, analysts and financial pros on what they think banks should ask themselves and cloud providers before taking the plunge. The following checklist is based on their answers:
Is it safe?
Published by ZDNet on August 3rd, 2010 |
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However, outside the report, there is competition: if OpenStack succeeds, RackSpace could be a leader in an expanding market, claiming the same kind of benefits that Amazon has been able to by being an early provider of cloud computing (EC2 launched in 2006) and at this year's I/O conference Google announced plans for their own online data storage service.
Published by Datamation on July 28th, 2010 |
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Practically every cloud computing provider – from Google to Rackspace, Amazon to Salesforce.com – has suffered through an outage at some point. When outages happen, skeptics question the viability of cloud computing.
Published by WebProNews on July 26th, 2010 |
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Elecronista reports that a new court ruling could set a legal precedent to allow the bypassing of DRM for fair use purposes. "The decision could impact the media industry as it may allow breaking DRM for music, movies and other formats as long as the material isn't pirated," says Electronista.
Published by EE Times on July 26th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting has announced the launch of OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability.
Published by ChannelWeb on July 24th, 2010 |
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Fears about proprietary technology and interoperability have been holding back adoption of cloud computing, but Rackspace and NASA are tackling the issue head on.
Published by DataCenter Knowledge on July 24th, 2010 |
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Rackspace said late Sunday that it was donating the code for its Cloud Files and Cloud Servers offerings to OpenStack, a new open source cloud platform that will also incorporate code from the NASA Nebula Cloud Platform.
Published by ReadWrite Cloud on July 23rd, 2010 |
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Red Italian CloudsEarlier this week, Opsource announced a partner program. The news came on Monday, the first day developers could download code from OpenStack, a separate initiative that has had considerable attention this week.
Published by CMS Wire on July 23rd, 2010 |
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Rackspace (news, site) may have raised more than a few eyebrows this week when it announced that was open sourcing its hosting platform, but will the move bring more customers on board?
Published by CIOZone on July 22nd, 2010 |
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That the hosting company doesn't view its software as a major asset is obvious from its Web site, where the "Why Rackspace?" page cites support, uptime and expertise as the reasons to turn to its public cloud. But with the announcement this week that it plans to open-source its cloud platform, Rackspace's strategy has become more openly apparent.
Published by ZDnet on July 22nd, 2010 |
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Rackspace, of course, garnered the most credibility at the open source convention. Earlier this week, the hosting giant announced it had released its OpenStack cloud platform under an Apache 2 license and officially launched of the Openstack.org open source project.
Published by Nasuni.com on July 22nd, 2010 |
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In case you missed it, there was pretty big news this week coming out of Rackspace - one of our supported cloud storage partners - and NASA. They announced the release and open-sourcing of their cloud backend, now named “OpenStack”.
Published by Channel Insider on July 21st, 2010 |
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Several major IT vendors, including Dell, HP, Citrix and Rackspace Hosting gathered at OSCON this week to deliver a host of open source-related announcements to the ever growing open-source market.
Published by Read Write Web on July 21st, 2010 |
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Since the announcement of OpenStack crossed the wire on Monday, much of the emphasis has been on Rackspace's decision to open source their code and what this might mean in terms of the other major (proprietary) cloud players. But there are 25 companies who've signed on to the OpenStack organization and the benefit of the open source project will be far-reaching beyond just the cloud service providers.
Published by AOL Daily Finance on July 21st, 2010 |
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Rackspace has already contributed its Cloud Files system to OpenStack. As the name implies, this allows for high-end storage services (which can scale to millions of virtual servers).
Published by ReadWriteWeb on July 21st, 2010 |
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Since the announcement of OpenStack crossed the wire on Monday, much of the emphasis has been on Rackspace's decision to open source their code and what this might mean in terms of the other major (proprietary) cloud players.
Published by The Wall Street Journal on July 20th, 2010 |
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Behind the recovery in business spending is a surge in purchases of the computers that form the backbone of the Internet, as companies scramble to meet growing demand for video and other Web-based services.
Published by Federal Computer Week on July 20th, 2010 |
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NASA has been one of the leading cloud computing lights in the federal government with its homegrown Nebula technology; now it’s making a play for the same reputation in open source cloud circles through an association with a new industry initiative called OpenStack.
Published by Austin Business Journal on July 20th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE: RAX) has partnered with NASA researchers in a joint technology development meant to leverage open-source software development worldwide.
Published by InformationWeek on July 20th, 2010 |
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Rackspace is sponsoring an open source cloud computing project, OpenStack, and contributing its own code to it in order to generate more uniform cloud environments in which customers can move around at will.
Published by The Motley Fool on July 20th, 2010 |
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Online hosting specialist Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is dead set on becoming a powerhouse in cloud computing services. Today, Rackspace took the Nebula code that runs NASA's cloud-computing services and made it open-source. Anyone can use, modify, and profit from using that code, developed in a close partnership between the space agency and the computing expert. Rackspace hopes to make Nebula a de facto standard for running scientific computing services in the cloud.
Published by ZDNet on July 20th, 2010 |
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For an open core company, setting the boundary between free and paid is a crucial decision. You need to make money but you also need to maintain open source credibility.
Published by CloudScaling blog on July 20th, 2010 |
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This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack’, should have a dramatic impact on the current dynamics for building cloud computing infrastructure. Previously there have been two major camps: Amazon API and architecture compatible and VMware’s vCloud. Now there is a third alternative that could not only be a viable alternative to these two approaches, but more importantly, a fantastic option for service providers and telecommunications companies that face unique challenges.
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Data center and cloud infrastructure service provider Rackspace is expected to announce Monday the release of a new open-source offering that will allow users to build and launch their own internal and hosted clouds.
Published by Slashdot on July 19th, 2010 |
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Techcrunch is reporting that Rackspace is open-sourcing their cloud computing technologies, under the name OpenStack. Rackspace has chosen to release under the Apache 2.0 license. The initial release encompasses the cloud object storage and cloud virtual server management suites. Along with this release, NASA is contributing technology from its Nebula Cloud Platform. Early partners include Intel, Dell, and Citrix.
Published by Giga Om on July 19th, 2010 |
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Last evening, I reported on the emergence of OpenStack, an open-source cloud project backed by Rackspace and supported by NASA and two dozen other companies. Since the initial news was released, a lot of folks have been sharing their sentiments about the offering and why they think it is important.
Published by The Next Web on July 19th, 2010 |
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Today, Rackspace introduces what they are calling OpenStack: an entirely open-source cloud platform, licensed under Apache 2. The same code that has powered Rackspace’s Cloud Files and Cloud Servers program is now going out to the world.
Published by EWeek Europe on July 19th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting this morning has officially launched OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform that it hopes will drive the uptake of cloud apps, prevent vendor lock-in and encourage cloud interoperability.
Published by San Antonio Business Journal on July 19th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting on Monday released OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform that’s designed to increase the availability of cloud computing technology.
Published by DataCenter Knowledge on July 19th, 2010 |
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Rackspace has unveiled OpenStack, a new open source cloud platform that will incorporate code from Rackspace’s cloud services as well as the NASA Nebula Cloud Platform. The announcement has triggered tons of reaction around the web.
Published by The Atlantic on July 19th, 2010 |
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Sometimes, you mix two trendy topics, and all you get is a mess. For instance, combine Mel Gibson and the Old Spice Guy, and you'd have one nasty set of viral videos. But other times, two buzzworthy themes combine perfectly, like the bacon craze and artisan ice cream. OpenStack, a new open source cloud computing initiative, is like the porcine ice cream.
Published by SD Times on July 19th, 2010 |
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Rackspace is collaborating with NASA to build an open-source cloud infrastructure that it said will help developers avoid provider lock-in with a Linux type model.
Published by Channel Insider on July 19th, 2010 |
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Rackspace and NASA partner on open-source cloud platform OpenStack, with Rackspace noting more than 25 companies, including Citrix and Dell, support open-source cloud platform to accelerate industry standards.
Published by Ars Technica on July 19th, 2010 |
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A group of cloud computing stakeholders have announced a new project called OpenStack, which aims to produce a standard open source cloud computing software stack. It will allow adopters to host their own elastic computing clouds and scalable storage grids. Key participants include hosting company Rackspace and NASA.
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Rackspace (RAX) announced a partnership with NASA and an open-source cloud platform called OpenStack. The concept is to give away a platform for private clouds, like a infrastructure-oriented Google (GOOG) Android. It’s a smart move and one that will continue to twist arms of the enterprise-business-as-usual gang.
Published by The New York Times on July 19th, 2010 |
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Rackspace, one of the largest Web site hosting companies and a cloud computing service provider, has bet that big customers will prefer an open, free roaming cloud to one with a proprietary wrapper. On Monday, the company heralded the start of OpenStack, an open-source take on the underlying technology behind cloud computing services.
Published by ZDNet on July 19th, 2010 |
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A consortium of cloud companies have announced OpenStack, a scheme designed to ease platform lock-in within the cloud through the use of open source and open standards.
Published by ZDNet on July 19th, 2010 |
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Today, yet another vendor threw its hat into this ring but might just have the more credible story enterprise infrastructure & operations professionals have been waiting on. Rackspace is arguably one of the top five public IaaS clouds in the market and today announced it is open sourcing its cloud platform.
Published by Network World on July 19th, 2010 |
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Rackspace and NASA have teamed up to launch OpenStack, an open source cloud platform aimed at accelerating the adoption of cloud computing by making it easier to develop new applications.
Published by Computer Weekly on July 19th, 2010 |
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Computer Weekly spent five minutes with Fabio Torlini, marketing director, Rackspace EMEA, discussing Openstack, the open-source computing platform it launched today with US space agency Nasa.
Published by Computer Weekly on July 19th, 2010 |
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Hosted cloud computing supplier Rackspace has teamed up with Nasa to launch OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform it hopes will set standards for open cloud technology and interoperability.
"We are founding the OpenStack initiative to help drive industry standards, prevent vendor lock-in and generally increase the velocity of innovation in cloud technologies," said Lew Moorman, chief strategy officer at Rackspace.
Published by Computer Business Review on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud services provider Rackspace Hosting has announced OpenStack, an open source platform that it hopes will drive the adoption of cloud computing while removing perceived barriers such as vendor lock-in.
Published by Computer World UK on July 19th, 2010 |
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If you've not seen it yet, do take a look as it's probably the most significant advance for open source cloud computing that we've seen so far - Rackspace's Robert Scoble has a detailed posting.
Published by Server Watch on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud hosting vendor Rackspace is teaming up with NASA to launch a new open source effort for building large enterprise clouds. Officially called the OpenStack project, the effort will involve both compute and storage elements, enabling users to build large distributed pools of connected resources.
Published by V3.co.uk on July 19th, 2010 |
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A new open-source project has launched today with the aim of developing standards for deploying cloud computing environments.
Cloud services provider Rackspace Hosting is spearheading the OpenStack project by releasing some of the code for its public cloud offerings
Published by Network World on July 19th, 2010 |
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Rackspace and NASA have teamed up to launch OpenStack, an open source cloud platform aimed at accelerating the adoption of cloud computing by making it easier to develop new applications.
Published by http://www.fastcompany.com/1671572/rackspace-cloud-server-custom-open-source on July 19th, 2010 |
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The cloud is coming--and to prove it's no smoke and mirrors trick (like so many Net phenomena) Rackspace, which already plays in the server-side of the cloud game, is due to offer an open-source solution so folks can host their own clouds.