Cloud Industry Topics
With all of the recent buzz around hybrid cloud, I sat down recently with Rackspace CTO John Engates and James Staten, vice president and principal analyst with Forrester, for a recorded webinar discussing public, private and hybrid cloud – the definitions, how to get started and what both of these industry leaders are hearing from CIOs.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 10, 2013 by Larry Meyer
In this edition of the Rackspace Weekly Digest, we’re taking a closer look at cloud-powered wearable technology and celebrating another victory in our fight against abusive patent trolls. We’re also taking our tech talks to New York City next week, where we’ll have a slew of Rackers presenting at Cloud Expo from June 10-13. Here’s a handy guide in case you missed anything:
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 7, 2013 by Leezia Dhalla
There are many solutions to consider as you migrate to the cloud. Here are a few key points that are invaluable when integrating Rackspace services into your application. Our goal is to ensure your move to the Rackspace Cloud is a smooth and successful transition.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 6, 2013 by The Rackspace Cloud Solutions Engineering Team
Bucketfeet is artist designed footwear. The company’s mission is to find a different artist to design every shoe produced. Talented artists from around the world get the global exposure they deserve, and you get the artist’s vision in an awesome, original shoe. The shoe is the platform to tell the artists’ stories and showcase their art. Bucketfeet collaborations range from working with street artists from Bogota to graphic designers from New York City, resulting in super comfortable, unique canvas shoes that stand out in a crowd.
Filed in Partner & Customer Updates on Jun. 6, 2013 by John McKenna
Today we are pleased to introduce a new and improved SLA for our Next Generation Cloud Servers service, powered by OpenStack.
Filed in Product & Development on Jun. 6, 2013 by Erik Carlin
For months, we’ve written about our opposition of patent trolls and their attempts to extort hundreds of thousands—or even millions—of dollars from companies that actually create value. These patent-powered parasites kill innovation, drain the economy and strip away capital from businesses both large and small.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 6, 2013 by Alan Schoenbaum
Whether you have one or several Drupal applications hosted on shared or dedicated hardware, or multiple configurations and applications sharing or straining server resources, it may be time to consider a cloud hosting option. In this tutorial I will show you how to get that Drupal application from running on that old hardware and also give you some automation tools to get it flyin’ in the cloud.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 5, 2013 by David Porter
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