Business Tips and Tricks
This is a guest post written and contributed by Ravi Chandran, Founder & CTO at XtremeData, Inc., a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. XtremeData provides a scalable, full-featured SQL data warehouse solution for Big Data analytics.
Filed in Partner & Customer Updates on Jun. 5, 2013 by Stephen Salas
Over the last few weeks, we’ve covered the individual chapters of the Business Email 101 guide. This week, we tackle Step Three: creating your email system requirements list. Your email wish list should start off very high-level and include everything you want even if at first blush certain features or capabilities seem cost or time prohibitive. Begin indentifying requirements by:
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 5, 2013 by Lizetta Staplefoote
This is a guest post written by David Anderson, the main developer of UpdraftPlus, a WordPress backup plugin. He lives in the UK and loves Jesus, WordPress, technology, sports, good books and his family.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 5, 2013 by Jerry Schwartz
Heading to Cloud Expo in NYC from June 10 to June 13? We hope to see you at our booth (#300) and invite you to check out some of our featured educational sessions hosted by Rackers, including a keynote by Rackspace Vice President of Enterprise Cloud Solutions Lisa Larson that examines the innovation behind the hybrid cloud.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 4, 2013 by Andrea Michnik
The Cloud Launch Team tackled different backup strategies and ways to protect your data in last week’s Google+ Hangout. If you’ve got more questions about data security and the cloud, be sure to catch the next Cloud Launch Team office hours in Google+ this Thursday at 1:00 p.m. CST.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 4, 2013 by Alan Bush
What can safe crackers and hamburgers teach us about preventing password security breaches? And what’s the difference between encryption and hashing anyway? Salting? Bcrypt? We all know that password security is very important; the fear of a password security breach keeps developers up at night, and if it happens at the wrong time it can shatter users’ confidence in your software or stunt your application’s growth. There are a lot of different ways to protect passwords, so how do we know which one to choose?
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 4, 2013 by Bret McGowen
In Simon & Garfunkel’s 1968 cross-country anthem “America,” Paul Simon cautioned: “be careful, his bowtie is really a camera.”
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 4, 2013 by Nigel Beighton
Finding, hiring and managing freelancers and contractors is a juggling act, especially if you’re a startup or small business. From waking up at 2 a.m. to jump on Skype, to coordinating an idea from start to finish, project outrourcing takes up a lot of time. This week’s Must Have App, Ziptask, offers a cloud-based web app designed specifically for outsourcing projects, so businesses don’t have to manage it.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 3, 2013 by Andrea Michnik
Want to install Drupal and Joomla quickly and with fewer headaches? Well, you’re in luck. We have a new Drupal and Joomla installer that gives you a fast and simple way to launch new pages using Rackspace Cloud Sites.
Filed in Product & Development on May. 31, 2013 by Tarun Bhatti
I was in a customer briefing recently discussing OpenStack and Rackspace Private Cloud. This particular customer was incredibly keen on cloud and had been keeping an eye on OpenStack since its inception in 2010. The customer was also very transparent, which made for a good bi-directional exchange of useful information that will undoubtedly help us to prioritize features for Rackspace Private Cloud.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 30, 2013 by Niki Acosta