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Business Email 101 – Steps 6 & 7: Shopping Providers
Over the last month, we’ve covered the ins and outs of figuring out how to evaluate and choose business email as laid out in the Business Email 101 Guide. At this point, we’re ready to go shopping for email. With the plethora of email providers in the market, it can be difficult to distill provider language, pricing and features. Steps Six and Seven offer guidance about what to look for in a business email provider. Step Six outlines a list of 10 questions to ask a prospective email provider. The top five questions to consider are:
Over the last month, we’ve covered the ins and outs of figuring out how to evaluate and choose business email as laid out in the Business Email 101 Guide. At this point, we’re ready to go shopping for email. With the plethora of email providers in the market, it can be difficult to distill provi…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on June 19th, 2013 by Lizetta Staplefoote
Webinar Recap: Understanding Cloud Block Storage: Performance, Options And Use Cases
We recently launched Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, a reliable storage solution for even the most demanding I/O-intensive applications.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on June 18th, 2013 by Leezia Dhalla
FLO Cycling Stops By To Chat About Scalable Websites: Google+ Hangout Recap
We were excited to welcome Rackspace customer FLO Cycling to our San Antonio HQ last week and have the team join our weekly Google+ Hangout.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on June 18th, 2013 by Alan Bush
Red Hat Summit 2013 Recap
The 2013 Red Hat Summit was my second one and I enjoyed it more than last year. Quite a few people asked for a recap and some takeaways from the Summit and that’s what I hope to do in this post.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on June 18th, 2013 by Major Hayden
We’re One Of Computerworld’s Best Places To Work In IT
For the sixth consecutive year, our unique culture, training opportunities and dynamic work environments have earned us a spot among IDG’s Computerworld 100 Best Places To Work in IT.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on June 18th, 2013 by Andrew Hickey
Using Content Search In SharePoint 2013
The Content Search Web Part (CSWP) is a new feature in SharePoint 2013. It can be most accurately compared to the Content Query Web Part that we have in previous SharePoint versions. The one striking difference between Content Search and Content Query is that Content Search allows you to query and show information from any site collection. As long as your search is configured to crawl the information it can be pulled into your CSWP!
The Content Search Web Part (CSWP) is a new feature in SharePoint 2013. It can be most accurately compared to the Content Query Web Part that we have in previous SharePoint versions. The one striking difference between Content Search and Content Query is that Content Search allows you to query and s…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on June 17th, 2013 by Joelle Farley
Hacking For Change: My Experience At National Day Of Civic Hacking
Improving society is one of our core missions at Rackspace. We want to make our communities and the world a better place.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on June 17th, 2013 by Eric McGregor
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Rackspace Weekly Digest: June 14
Is there a difference between performance and site load times? How can you minimize your financial loss and downtime after a disaster? What’s the role of the hybrid cloud within enterprises?
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on June 14th, 2013 by Leezia Dhalla
Webinar Recap: Building Bridges With Hybrid Cloud
Recently, we told you that we’ve been hearing a lot from customers who are frustrated by the limitations of one-size-fits-all clouds. These customers wanted a computing approach where their workloads can run best and most cost-effectively. That’s why we at Rackspace are working to provide you with our hybrid cloud.
Recently, we told you that we’ve been hearing a lot from customers who are frustrated by the limitations of one-size-fits-all clouds. These customers wanted a computing approach where their workloads can run best and most cost-effectively. That’s why we at Rackspace are working to provide you wi…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on June 13th, 2013 by Leezia Dhalla
Is There A Difference Between Performance And Site Load Times?
This week kicks off a new series called “Cloud Questions You Didn’t Even Know You Had.” I want to discuss some topics that folks might not even consider as they look toward taking advantage of the cloud.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on June 13th, 2013 by Joseph Palumbo