Emil Sayegh, General Manager, The Rackspace Cloud You may have read from Silicon Angle yesterday that former CTO of Threadless, Harper Reed is joining the Rackspace Cloud as our very own Nepholologist – What is a Nepholologist? Feel free to look it up. 
He’ll be working on cool technology for our customers, evangelizing The [...]
You may have heard about the Cassandra distributed database in recent articles or conferences. I’d like to explain what advantages Cassandra offers over traditional relational databases like MySQL or Oracle and why Rackspace has committed resources to the Cassandra project. The Cassandra project was started by Facebook in 2007 to scale their internal applications, particularly [...]
When you need a service done – maybe house painting, landscaping, or even plumbing– it can be time consuming to go out and find the best candidate for your job. You may go through your Yellow Pages, send an email to friends and family asking for a referral or even just Google it. Even then, [...]
By Adrian Otto This continues my series on Rules for Coding in the Cloud. These are rules I’ve developed after watching applications encounter problems at scale when deployed on Cloud Sites. Rule 6: Never use HTTP include. Let me explain. How does a HTTP include work? You tell your PHP application, “I want to include [...]
I just returned from Philadelphia where the DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator group had a three-day face-to-face meeting on cloud computing standardization. In addition to Rackspace, other companies present included: CA, Cisco, Citrix, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sungard, and VMware. The purpose of the incubator group is essentially to get the ball rolling – [...]
