Podcasts, Videos, Webinars
Traditional ROI models only focus on simple cost benefits and overlook the real value of cloud. So how are we supposed to calculate and maximize ROI in this new cloud world?
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 2, 2013 by Rafat Shaheen
The cloud is a utility service and, similar to a utility like electricity, you pay for it based on your hourly usage. The major advantage of the cloud’s utility pricing is that costs scale up and down along with your configuration, allowing you to plan for the traffic of your visitors without waste or excess. But rather than talking directly about dollars and cents, let’s use an analogy of hosting a dinner party to understand the power of utility pricing.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May. 2, 2013 by Joseph Palumbo
I’ve been lucky to have been a part of a really cool project, and I wanted to use the Rackspace blog to get the word out a bit more. For the past few weeks, I’ve hosted a Google Plus hangout that includes me, a few of my Racker friends and some of our customers. It has been a fun, informal way to have a conversation. We’ve answered questions on a number of topics, including Cloud Load Balancers, Active Directory in the cloud, transferring video files to our CDN and many more.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 30, 2013 by Alan Bush
What really drives tech entrepreneurs? What makes them tick? What drew the great disruptors to technology? Rackspace On Startups is a video series that explores insights from tech evangelists and founders – from Woz to Graham Weston.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 29, 2013 by Dave Sims
When you’re working in your cloud app, the cloud enables you to easily spin up and down different servers and services with a click of a button. The drawback to this model, however, is that cost can be difficult to track. It’s easy to forget to shut down an instance, or a bug in app code could spin instances up without ever taking them down. Monitoring your costs is the third metric that developers should monitor, and Rackspace Cloud Tools partner Cloudability is a third-party tool that can be a big help.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 22, 2013 by Bret McGowen
What really drives tech entrepreneurs? What makes them tick? What drew the great disruptors to technology? Rackspace On Startups is a video series that explores insights from tech evangelists and founders – from Woz to Graham Weston.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 22, 2013 by Dave Sims
Technology is often a lopsided business. Studies show that just 12 percent of the professionals in engineering are women.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 19, 2013 by Andrew Hickey
At OpenStack Summit Portland, the team that authored OpenStack Operations Guide during a five-day book sprint earlier this year held a panel discussion to answer questions and receive feedback from the community.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 19, 2013 by Andrew Hickey
Where will OpenStack be in 2023? While we’re only three years into the OpenStack revolution, the record crowd at OpenStack Summit Portland cements that the community-driven open source cloud operating system is here to stay.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 18, 2013 by Andrew Hickey
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