Product Discussion
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
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
This is a guest post written and contributed by Chris Thornham, Co-Founder of FLO Cycling, a Rackspace customer that makes awesome, high-performance carbon fiber bicycle wheels.
Filed in Partner & Customer Updates on Apr. 8, 2013 by Alan Bush
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
Today, I would like to introduce you to a guest blogger, Dave Fowler, founder of Chartio. Chartio provides data analytics and visualization tools for business intelligence applications, and allows you to bring data from Cloud Databases and other data sources together into beautiful visualizations. Here is Dave:
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 3, 2013 by J.R. Arredondo
Technology is dramatically changing the way that information is delivered in schools.
Filed in Partner & Customer Updates on Apr. 3, 2013 by Jerry Schwartz
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
When you host your app in the cloud, you want to make sure that the infrastructure that runs it is up and available. Cloud Monitoring is an easy way to monitor your servers to ensure they are performing properly. In particular, there are two methods of monitoring my app’s servers that I always set up: ping checks and HTTP checks.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 1, 2013 by Bret McGowen