Marketers are concerned with two things when it comes to digital campaigns: ease and performance. They need simple solutions that work and can withstand traffic spikes due to campaign efforts and seasonality. Here are some of the things marketers are creating on the open cloud.
In the latest installment of the Enterprise Cloud Forum we discussed how enterprises are leveraging a cloud business model to maximize ROI. Check out the presentation and mp3 recording here.
The cloud is a utility service and you pay for it based on your hourly usage. Let’s use an analogy of hosting a dinner party to better understand the power of utility pricing.
Taxi for two, a Rackspace Startup Program member, is building a service that lets users share taxis to save on cab fares and reduce their carbon footprint.
This infographic details the cloud-powered mobile ecommerce boom and some advice to help you win the click.
At EMC World 2013 in Las Vegas next week, you’ll hear how joint solutions from Rackspace and EMC help helping enterprise IT leaders meet challenges head on through a hybrid mix of cloud and dedicated infrastructure.
Rackspace has built tools that help developers bring web or application development to the Rackspace Cloud. The Rackspace Cloud SDK for Microsoft.NET and Rackspace’s PowerClient help you utilize common cloud features for development.
Within the startup movement, there are plenty of events happening globally in May 2013. The Rackspace Startup Program is here to keep you up to date with valuable information on events and happenings inside the global startup community. Here is a partial list of global startup events complied by the contributors of StartupDigest:
Each Thursday we’ll host an ‘Office Hours Hangout’ on Google Plus. Office Hours Hangouts are informal conversations between Rackers and customers on a variety of cloud topics. Join us May 2 at 1 p.m. when we’ll talk about building a scalable WordPress configuration in the cloud.
We will soon add an autoscaling service, Rackspace Autoscale, that allows you to automatically add or remove resources in response to server load. We invite you to complete an autoscaling survey to tell us your needs, wants and abilities to integrate with this new product.