Bret Piatt held a session on Cassandra at the O’Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference last week. He was interviewed by Matt Slocum while there and addresses the following questions: How does Cassandra differ from traditional relational databases? What types of sites and services work best with Cassandra? Is there a tipping point for [...]
Rackspace was recently listed as a “Champion” in Info-Tech Research Group’s Cloud Infrastructure vendor landscape. Info Tech Research Group’s vendor landscape report provides a detailed, head-to-head, analytical comparison of products in a given market. Rackspace was one of nine vendors assessed in the recent vendor landscape report assessment entitled “Select the Right Cloud Infrastructure Service [...]
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This post was written and contributed by John Willis, VP of Training & Services for Opscode, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. This is a special blog article for me today. Nearly three years ago I started hosting my blog on what was then called Mosso (now called Cloud Sites). At that time Lew Moorman–now President, [...]
When I mention to developers that I work at Rackspace and we are supporters of Cassandra, a common response I get is “Oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to look into that as well as CouchDB and MongoDB. I should know more about those.” I agree. At South by Southwest Interactive, Rackspace sponsored the InfoChimps Data [...]
