Product Announcements and Updates
Last fall Rackspace announced the unlimited availability of Cloud Monitoring, our highly available API-driven monitoring system that is changing how we deliver Fanatical Support. Since then, we have been quietly adding features; and today we’re making those features available through unlimited availability, and we’re unveiling even more.
Filed in Product & Development on Apr. 24, 2013 by Russell Haering
Data is at the heart of your business. As your business grows, your data grows. And with increasing amounts of data, you need a scalable, secure and efficient platform to store it. You also need reliability and performance in a storage platform that will grow with you. Today, we add a new solution to our Dedicated Storage portfolio that will not only scale-out easily, but will also do it simply and seamlessly – EMC Isilon.
Filed in Product & Development on Apr. 22, 2013 by Decoa Parker
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
Your web applications need to scale, especially during demanding traffic events. Nginx is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy that can help you do that. Today, we are extending our Managed Cloud Fanatical Support to include the installation, troubleshooting, patching and performance tuning of Nginx.
Filed in Product & Development on Apr. 12, 2013 by Chris Johnson
Cloud Databases helps you provision and manage high performance MySQL instances on Rackspace’s open cloud. Our service helps with the installation, configuration, deployment and on-going management of MySQL, and more importantly it helps you deliver fast apps through an architecture that is purpose-built with performance in mind using container-based virtualization.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 3, 2013 by J.R. Arredondo
With Rackspace Private Cloud, one of our missions is to arm you and your business with the ability to run like Rackspace. We give you the OpenStack-powered software we built and tested using our experience and expertise running the world’s largest OpenStack-powered cloud along with many OpenStack-powered private clouds. You then choose whether to run it yourself, for free with no lock in, or have us help you. And we do it in your data center or ours.
Filed in Product & Development on Mar. 6, 2013 by Jim Curry
Get the most out of SharePoint without having to deal with the management headaches with our new fully managed SharePoint solutions in the Rackspace Open Cloud. Cloud Servers for SharePoint offer the flexibility and cost savings of the cloud, delivered with our award-winning Fanatical Support, plus the SharePoint support, management and expertise that only Rackspace offers.
Filed in Product & Development on Mar. 4, 2013 by Jeff DeVerter
This morning, we announced the acquisition of ObjectRocket.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Feb. 27, 2013 by Lew Moorman
Why did Rackspace acquire ObjectRocket?
We are committed to providing customers with the tools they need to build their businesses on top of the Rackspace Open Cloud. Databases are the core of almost any application and MongoDB is quickly becoming the de facto choice for NoSQL applications. See the blog post from Rackspace president, Lew Moorman on the rationale for investing in MongoDB here.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Feb. 27, 2013 by Pat Matthews
The demand for Big Data solutions continues to grow, and to help you tackle Big Data workloads, we have partnered with Hortonworks, the premiere open-sourced Apache HadoopTM enterprise distribution, to provide application support and best-in-breed architecture design.
Filed in Product & Development on Feb. 26, 2013 by Sean Anderson