OpenStack
At OpenStack Summit Portland, HubSpot discussed how it uses Rackspace’s open hybrid cloud to power its all-in-one inbound marketing Software-as-a-Service solutions.
Filed in Partner & Customer Updates on Apr. 16, 2013 by Larry Meyer
With 2,400-plus in attendance, OpenStack Summit Portland is the largest Summit in OpenStack’s history – twice the size of the San Diego Summit just six months ago.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 16, 2013 by Andrew Hickey
Work at the OpenStack Summit in Portland this week is helping bridge the gap between what’s been promised and what’s becoming possible. Nowhere is the gap between these two wider than with autoscaling. Everyone expects the cloud to be able to automatically scale right out of the gate, but the truth is that it requires a lot of work and sometimes only happens with the help of a third-party service provider.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 16, 2013 by Ken Wronkiewicz
Day one of OpenStack Summit Portland is in the books. It’s the largest ever Summit – with an estimated 2,400-plus in attendance. By a show of hands, this was the first Summit for many attendees.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 15, 2013 by Niki Acosta
Something Rackspace knows firsthand is that building and operating a successful cloud business is hard. Going from being in the dedicated server business to being a recognized leader in cloud has been a journey for us, and we’ve learned a lot over the past few years to get to the position we are in today.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 15, 2013 by Scott Sanchez
Next week, dozens of cloud evangelists and tech aficionados from Rackspace will touch down at the Portland Convention Center in Oregon for a series of game-changing talks and panels on all things OpenStack. This year’s summit is expected to lure a record crowd seeking insight on how to build and deploy OpenStack software, as well as how to continue to grow the energetic OpenStack community. Attendees can also learn more about OpenStack through content, workshops and design sessions.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 9, 2013 by Leezia Dhalla
Hustling to release a full suite of open cloud products built on OpenStack last year reduced our overall involvement in the OpenStack community. It also created some implementation specifics that were out of sync with common practices in other OpenStack implementations.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 9, 2013 by Troy Toman
Want to beef up your resume and show the world that you’re on top of your OpenStack game? Want to do it for free? At OpenStack Summit Portland this month we’ll offer free Rackspace Certified Technician for OpenStack exams – a $200 value.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 3, 2013 by Tony Campbell
In the cloud era, the legacy model of software updates is broken. Vendors selling five years of support services for a point-in-time release of their cloud platform are doing it wrong. Companies offering to customize a forked version of a cloud software stack for an individual customer are doing it wrong, too. In order to achieve true business acceleration, Run Like Rackspace through constantly updated, rigorously tested cloud software backed by world-class operations and support.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 2, 2013 by Adam Dawson
In 2001, I bought my first cell phone; a Motorola phone from Radio Shack. For $40 per month, I had 400 minutes of analog reception, an extendable antenna and a good game of Snake.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Mar. 26, 2013 by Adam Dawson