We all wish we could be rock star web designers and developers, but there just isn’t enough time in the day. Wireframing is time-consuming and so is learning HTML5. Instead, you can call on
Drifty, a new software studio based out of Madison, Wis. that makes easy-to-use cloud-based tools for developing mobile apps and websites using web technologies. The two apps,
Codiqa and
Jetstrap, are helping more than 150,000 users combined create apps and sites faster and more efficiently.
We all wish we could be rock star web designers and developers, but there just isn’t enough time in the day. Wireframing is time-consuming and so is learning HTML5. Instead, you can call on Drifty, a new software studio based out of Madison, Wis. that makes easy-to-use cloud-based tools for develo…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 20th, 2013 by Andrea Michnik
Is capacity planning dead? Will one platform satisfy all future IT initiatives? How much does downtime truly cost your company?
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 20th, 2013 by Leezia Dhalla
If
your mobile app ever gets a featured spot in an app store, Oprah endorses your product or you make an appearance on ABC’s
Shark Tank, you are going to experience mind-blowing traffic to your site. Rackspace knows how to keep your app or site online
when experiencing a high traffic event. Our customer gdgt knows this first hand as their site has been one of the few to remain accessible while
live blogging important Apple announcements amid crushing traffic.
If your mobile app ever gets a featured spot in an app store, Oprah endorses your product or you make an appearance on ABC’s Shark Tank, you are going to experience mind-blowing traffic to your site. Rackspace knows how to keep your app or site online when experiencing a high traffic event. Our cu…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 17th, 2013 by Garrett Heath
We’re barreling full steam ahead here at the Rack. We’ve welcomed new allies in our battle against patent trolls; invested in a NoSQL DBaaS provider; and added a new level of support just for developers. Take a look at the digest and see what happened this week.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 17th, 2013 by Andrew Hickey
The IT industry continues to evolve. Cloud startups, innovative technologies and new business models are disrupting traditional IT and business economics alike. At
CA World 2013 in Las Vegas last month, we had the opportunity to share industry insight from our cloud customers and highlight our approach to helping customers with their journeys to the cloud. Our key themes, Hybrid Cloud, DevOps, Service Oriented Architectures and emerging technologies like OpenStack, map directly to
CA Technologies’ global strategy.
The IT industry continues to evolve. Cloud startups, innovative technologies and new business models are disrupting traditional IT and business economics alike. At CA World 2013 in Las Vegas last month, we had the opportunity to share industry insight from our cloud customers and highlight our appro…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 15th, 2013 by Scott Whitright
Alan Perkins recently joined Rackspace as Director of Product and Technology, Asia Pacific. In this two-part series, he discusses why he joined Rackspace.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 15th, 2013 by Alan Perkins
Email is a critical business tool required to do business. It’s on par with the phone system and lights. Email is also a time sink for IT and expensive to run on site.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 15th, 2013 by Lizetta Staplefoote
For the past several months,
we’ve exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they’re being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck – or hundreds of thousands of bucks, if you will – from businesses large and small. It’s a drain on innovation, a plague to all of technology and a
drag on the economy.
For the past several months, we’ve exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they’re being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck – or hundreds of thousands of bucks, if you will – from businesses large and small. It’s a drain on innovation, a plague t…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 14th, 2013 by Alan Schoenbaum
Last week, we published
The Ecommerce Customer Experience to help site operators start thinking about the building blocks of creating an ideal customer experience. Taking the time to focus on the customer experience can mean getting a bigger piece of the pie, as 86 percent of surveyed shoppers say they’d be willing to pay more for an improved site experience. The
infographic below details some stats around the importance of paying attention to your site experience and how
ecommerce hosting on the cloud can help.
Last week, we published The Ecommerce Customer Experience to help site operators start thinking about the building blocks of creating an ideal customer experience. Taking the time to focus on the customer experience can mean getting a bigger piece of the pie, as 86 percent of surveyed shoppers say t…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 14th, 2013 by Lizetta Staplefoote
Waiting 20 minutes to see a doctor when you have a concern, only to have them spend 75 percent of that time reviewing your file, sucks. It’s not an effective use of your time as a patient or for the professional caregiver. Cloud technology has enabled more heath professionals to use electronic health records, or EHRs, and it’s changing the health industry as we know it.
Waiting 20 minutes to see a doctor when you have a concern, only to have them spend 75 percent of that time reviewing your file, sucks. It’s not an effective use of your time as a patient or for the professional caregiver. Cloud technology has enabled more heath professionals to use electronic…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 14th, 2013 by Andrea Michnik
