Infographics
The Rackspace Weekly Digest is the place to get brought up to speed on recent and upcoming happenings at Rackspace and news that you may have missed.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jul. 23, 2012 by Andrew Hickey
Today, OpenStack celebrates its second birthday. Since its launch on July 19, 2010, the open source cloud operating system, which Rackspace co-founded, has grown by leaps and bounds. It’s been called the Linux of the cloud and has created an open cloud alternative to proprietary systems. As we wish OpenStack a happy birthday, here’s a look at some of the major milestones and accomplishments OpenStack has seen in its first two years.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jul. 19, 2012 by Melissa Smolensky
Rackspace moves at a swift pace. There’s always so much going on that you may have missed something. To fill you in on what you may have missed and to highlight some things that are coming soon, here’s a breakdown of notable news and happenings at Rackspace.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jul. 16, 2012 by Andrew Hickey
You probably use application programming interfaces (APIs) multiple times a day and aren’t even aware of it. They make it easier to share photos with friends, access massive data stores and drive new app development. With the rise of APIs, including our own Open Cloud API, we’ve compiled an overview to help you understand how APIs work, how you’re already using them, and how businesses are finding big successes with APIs.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jul. 10, 2012 by Angela Bartels
From Rogue IT to cloud lock-in, the 2012 Rackspace Cloud Adoption Survey has uncovered top cloud concerns of IT decision makers.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 25, 2012 by Christina Weaver
A few months ago we sent out a survey to IT pros to better understand the challenges around SharePoint. We were surprised at the findings, reported in the accompanying infographic alongside some interesting numbers on SharePoint’s market domination and usage flexibility.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 14, 2012 by Lizetta Staplefoote
This new interactive piece details how eBay’s X.commerce is leveraging the cloud to build a massively scalable platform for online commerce. Merchants rely on developers to help them take their online businesses to the next level by building applications that allow merchants to take full advantage of ecommerce. The challenge becomes matching merchants with the right developers to implement new technologies for complete, scalable, end-to-end ecommerce experiences.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jun. 13, 2012 by Lizetta Staplefoote
This week, our Anatomy Of An Attack infographic showcased steps hackers may take to crack into your systems. The goal was to show the discovery process that an attacker goes through when looking to do something nasty. We’re not looking to spark fear, but instead to instill some common sense goals to lock down systems before attackers have a chance to penetrate them.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 24, 2012 by Andrew Hickey
How does access to web properties end up in the hands of a hacker? In this interactive piece, we’ll take you through the steps on how an attacker goes about targeting an organization. The primary goal of such an attack could be to gain access to competitive intelligence, to interfere with business by modifying or defacing a web site or to otherwise disrupt normal business activities – which can all affect you.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 23, 2012 by Tam Vu
In April 1973, Marty Cooper made the phone call that sparked the mobile revolution. The mobile phone wasn’t always as smart and as compact as it is today. Take a look back through the various iterations of mobile phones that have brought us from the now-comical brick phone that started it all to the latest iteration that you’re carrying in your pocket right now.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 24, 2012 by Lizetta Staplefoote