An Aberdeen Group survey in 2012 found that the industry average cost of downtime is $181,770 per hour [1]. It’s an issue we’ll talk about in depth at EMC World.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 3rd, 2013 by Brent Scotten
It’s only the first week of May, and we’ve already hit the ground running here at the Rack. Over the past few days we’ve seen policymakers show leadership in the fight against patent trolls and launched ObjectRocket in our Chicago data center. Check out all of that and more in this week’s digest.
It’s only the first week of May, and we’ve already hit the ground running here at the Rack. Over the past few days we’ve seen policymakers show leadership in the fight against patent trolls and launched ObjectRocket in our Chicago data center. Check out all of that and more in this week’s di…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 3rd, 2013 by Leezia Dhalla
When you host at Rackspace, you are not just getting our cloud infrastructure, you are also getting
our world class Fanatical Support. We love our customers and want to do everything possible to help, and if you have a question or concern we’re here 24x7x365.
When you host at Rackspace, you are not just getting our cloud infrastructure, you are also getting our world class Fanatical Support. We love our customers and want to do everything possible to help, and if you have a question or concern we’re here 24x7x365.…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 3rd, 2013 by Garrett Heath
For years Senator Charles Schumer of New York has been a driving force in the battle to abolish low quality business method patents, the type that patent trolls regularly use to attack businesses with vexatious lawsuits. He authored Section 18 of the
America Invents Act, which is known as the transitional program for covered business method patents. The purpose of the program is to create an effective and fair post grant review for business method patents used in the “practice, administration, or management” of a financial product or service.
For years Senator Charles Schumer of New York has been a driving force in the battle to abolish low quality business method patents, the type that patent trolls regularly use to attack businesses with vexatious lawsuits. He authored Section 18 of the America Invents Act, which is known as the transi…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 2nd, 2013 by Alan Schoenbaum
Marketers are concerned with two things when it comes to digital campaigns: ease and performance. They need simple solutions that work with their timeline demands and can withstand traffic spikes due to campaign efforts and seasonality.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 2nd, 2013 by Ali Lastrapes
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 2nd, 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.
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 wast…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 2nd, 2013 by Joseph Palumbo
Mobile isn’t just revolutionizing how we communicate, but also how we shop. Mobile transactions from the ever-increasing number of smartphones and tablets now account for one out of every 10 ecommerce dollars spent. This shift from ecommerce to mobile commerce, or m-commerce, means online and offline merchants need to take note and adjust their IT strategies to compete.
Cloud-based services can help. The
infographic below details the mobile ecommerce trend with some advice to help you win the click (and the sales).
Mobile isn’t just revolutionizing how we communicate, but also how we shop. Mobile transactions from the ever-increasing number of smartphones and tablets now account for one out of every 10 ecommerce dollars spent. This shift from ecommerce to mobile commerce, or m-commerce, means online and offl…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 1st, 2013 by Lizetta Staplefoote
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.
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, inform…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on April 30th, 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 April 29th, 2013 by Dave Sims
