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Swedenby David Mitzenmacher on October 28, 2008
Robert Scoble just posted two new video interviews on FastCompany.tv that were filmed right before the Rackspace Cloud Event.
John Engates, CTO of Rackspace, and Dave Wright, CEO of Jungle Disk talk about Jungle Disk joining Rackspace
Matt Tanase and Jason Seats, co-founders of SliceHost talk about joining Rackspace
This is not the first time that we’ve been featured on FastCompany.tv. Here are three of our previous appearances:
A Real Business Leader
Rackspace Tears into New Headquarters
Radio Rackspace
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by David Mitzenmacher on October 22, 2008
As I mentioned in a previous post, today we unveiled some big news about our cloud hosting offering. You can watch the rebroadcast at RackspaceCloudEvent.com, but the big news is that we have acquired two companies that are doing great things in the cloud: Slicehost and Jungle Disk.
Slicehost is a leader in Xen-based virtual machine hosting with more than 15,000 “slices” online today. Jungle Disk offers reliable cloud storage solutions that allow users to easily share an unlimited amount of cloud storage between multiple users through a secure, mountable network drive and automatic backup.
With these two companies joining the Rackspace family, Rackspace now offers a comprehensive portfolio of Cloud offerings to go alongside with our Managed and Platform hosting services.
Rackspace’s cloud strategy is supported by three core offerings, all part of Mosso (Rackspace’s cloud hosting division). The three core offerings are:
- Cloud Sites — Rackspace’s flagship cloud offering, The Hosting Cloud, is now Cloud Sites. Cloud Sites offers a scalable platform for handling huge traffic spikes and a pay-as-you-grow pricing model. Cloud Sites is a heterogeneous environment, supporting both Windows and Linux.
- Cloud Files — Rackspace’s internet-based storage service, CloudFS, is now Cloud Files. Cloud Files gives developers instant access to an enterprise-grade storage infrastructure and reduces overall investment and IT costs while providing infinite scalability. Cloud Files offers an industry leading SLA and a highly competitive pricing model with replicated storage starting at $0.15/GB. Also later this year, Limelight Networks will team with Rackspace to allow developers to easily distribute content to millions of end users around the world and bring scalable content delivery and application acceleration services to the masses. While continuing to support the Amazon S3 platform, Jungle Disk will port to Rackspace’s Cloud Files system in the coming months. Jungle Disk comes in both desktop and workgroup editions across the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.
- Cloud Servers — This new hosting solution, which will deliver on-demand server capacity to businesses of all sizes, will leverage key technology developed by Slicehost, which uses Xen virtualization software. Slicehost will remain as the company’s developer brand, creating innovative new features driven through shared intellectual property in conjunction with development initiatives from Rackspace. As part of the announcement, Slicehost also announced new, larger slices for high performance computing, lower prices as well as IP sharing for high availability computing.
A wide set of cloud tool companies have expressed intent to support the Rackspace cloud. The list of companies includes RightScale, CohesiveFT, rPath, SOASTA and Vertica. In addition, Sonian Networks, the leader in cloud mail archiving solutions, and Mailtrust, the Email Hosting division of Rackspace announced they had reached an agreement to offer low cost archiving to Mailtrust’s 100,000+ business domains. Through this agreement, Sonian Networks will also port their solution to the Rackspace cloud suite.
You can find out more about our Cloud offerings by visiting cloud.rackspace.com
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by David Mitzenmacher on October 17, 2008
If you are interested in the cloud, you’ll want to join us on Wednesday, October 22 @ 12:00 pm CT for the Rackspace Cloud Event.
Rackspace and our cloud hosting division, Mosso, are holding a customer event and live webcast entitled ‘Live and Unplugged: A Conversation with Rackspace about Cloud Hosting and What’s Coming’.
We don’t do events like this often, but we’ve got some great stuff in the works and are excited to share the news with our friends. The webcast and event will offer listeners the opportunity to hear strategic and product announcements from our managed and cloud hosting businesses about the future of the hosting cloud.
Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier and Chief Strategy Officer Lew Moorman, along with our partners and customers, will be on-hand to discuss emerging hosting trends.
Please join us for this exciting event via Webcast or in person from the historic KLRU studios on the Austin City Limits stage
Visit http://www.rackspacecloudevent.com for more information!
by David Mitzenmacher on October 16, 2008
Have you registered yet for the Rackspace Customer Conference?
This year’s conference promises to be the best yet. Our keynote speaker will be Paul Bell, President of Dell Americas, who will be discussing the future direction of the IT industry. We also have a ton of interesting, informative sessions lined up – with both a technical and a business track. Here are just a few of the sessions that are on the agenda:
- Hurricanes, Typhoons and Tornados – Disaster Recovery Options
- Live Launch of MyRackspace Version 6.0
- Rackspace Managed Hosting Product Roadmap
- Cloud Computing
- Fanatical By Design- How Rackspace Uses Net Promoter to Build Customer Loyalty
- Technical Strategies for IT Professionals to Improve Email Deliverability, Reliability & Performance
- PCI Compliance- Where is the Value?
- Uptime 101: Availability Strategies for Web Applications
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Best Practices
- What Great Managers Know
- Increasing Profitability and Employee Productivity in a Carbon Constrained World
In addition to all of this, we will also be running data center tours (always an attendee favorite), tours of our new headquarters, a golf tournament, and a guided tour of “haunted” San Antonio. We will also be holding a special murder mystery dinner!
When: Monday, October 27th through Thursday, October 30th
Where: Westin Riverwalk Hotel (on the San Antonio Riverwalk)
Visit www.rackspace.com/conference for full conference details and to register
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