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Published by Virtual Strategy Magazine on August 26th, 2010 |
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Podcast: Introduction – Jim Battenberg, Cloud Evangelist, & Bryan McGrath, Director of Finance, Rackspace
Published by Data Center Knowledge on August 25th, 2010 |
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It’s no secret that Rackspace Hosting is interested in international growth for its managed hosting and cloud computing business. The company has opened data centers in the UK and Hong Kong to provide an infrastructure footprint in the European and Asian markets.
Published by Giga Om on August 25th, 2010 |
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For a long time, Eucalytpus Systems’ flagship customer was NASA, which was using the company’s open-core cloud software as the foundation its Nebula project. When the OpenStack project launched last month, we learned that co-leader (along with Rackspace) NASA had abandoned Eucalyptus to roll its own malleable, vastly scalable cloud code.
Published by CRN on August 24th, 2010 |
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While the typical small business has at least implemented basic technology such as tape or optical storage to back up its data, solution providers looking to help these companies find better ways to protect their data in case of a disaster can now explore low-cost storage clouds.
Published by Sys-Con on August 24th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting has gone GA with its beta Cloud Servers for Windows. The new service is supposed to deliver a highly scalable environment ideal for Windows-based hosting, testing and developing applications or "supporting the high levels of traffic required for launching online gaming platforms or the next social networking phenomenon."
Published by The Register on August 23rd, 2010 |
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OpenStack – the open source cloud computing fabric launched by NASA and Rackspace Hosting at the end of July – has added support for additional hypervisors.
Published by ComputerWorld on August 23rd, 2010 |
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Rackspace uses a container storage method where applications talk via an API. In turn, the API supports Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, C#/.Net, which run over an HTTPS REST transport. It's all coded, but it's not complex to do.
Published by ComputerWorld on August 23rd, 2010 |
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The services that we tested were Amazon S3, Rackspace's CloudFiles, Egnyte's On Demand File Server, Nasuni Cloud Storage, and Nirvanix's Storage Delivery Network.
Amazon, Rackspace and Nirvanix represent the containerized/object-oriented model.
Published by Bloomberg Business Week on August 23rd, 2010 |
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Amazon, while not quite as fast as Rackspace, is accessed in a similar way. We could use a Web-based upload or download, or Amazon's API.
Published by Forbes.com on August 13th, 2010 |
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Augustine has thrown her company deep into "the cloud." She does not have a server. She does not have a local area network. All of her software, databases and files are hosted by a company called Rackspace Hosting. Why? "I'm not a technology person," she says. "I'm an accounting person. I'll let someone else worry about the technology."
Published by It ProPortal on August 12th, 2010 |
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Cloud service provider Rackspace Hosting has rolled out its new cloud servers for Microsoft Windows, targeted at SMBs, .NET developers and system administrators.
Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/8/12/rackspace-unveils-cloud-servers-windows/#ixzz0wny0QzMV
Published by IT Business Edge on August 12th, 2010 |
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Traditional hosting providers are getting a lot more serious about competing for every cloud computing dollar. This week, for example, Rackspace announced the general availability of its cloud computing services based on a Windows server.
Published by HPC in the Cloud on August 12th, 2010 |
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This morning cloud services vendor Rackpace announced that it was opening cloud servers for Microsoft Windows, with distinct focus on system administrators and .NET developers as well as, of course, the SMB market—which seems to be the focal point of attack for Microsoft’s current cloud initiatives as of late.
Published by E Week Europe on August 11th, 2010 |
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Though the majority of servers offered in public clouds are Linux-based, hosting company Rackspace has launched Windows cloud servers, while announcing a big boost in its revenue from the cloud.
Published by CBR on August 11th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting has introduced Cloud Servers for Windows offering, which delivers a scalable environment for Windows-based hosting, testing and developing applications.
Published by SiliconANGLE on August 11th, 2010 |
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Rackspace may have a lot going on right now—it’s recently launched a massive cloud initiative called OpenStack, for one. To say that Rackspace is growing out its verticals is an understatement, especially as cloud tools for the enterprise gain in usability, security and budgeting appeal.
Published by SearchCloudComputing on August 11th, 2010 |
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Rackspace's Cloud Servers offering is now available on Windows, so businesses that use Microsoft Windows and Microsoft .NET (and for some reason have neglected both Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2) will have access to Rackspace's scalable cloud computing environment.
Published by Data Knowledge Center on August 10th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting added 8,510 customers in its cloud computing business in the second quarter of 2010, while boosting the revenue from each cloud customer, the San Antonio provider reported Monday.
Published by San Antonio Express News on August 10th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting Inc. reported sharply higher profit for its second quarter on Monday, with improvements in its key service segments and higher customer counts contributing to the improved results.
Published by Trading Markets.com on August 10th, 2010 |
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Last year, the cloud cognoscenti set out to clarify definitions. What is cloud? What isn't cloud? What does it mean for the present and the future? This year, the focus is on adoption patterns and entry points -- where enterprises are making use of cloud, finding value and gaining traction with their initiatives.
Published by Tech Republic on August 10th, 2010 |
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Store files in this simple and elegant file server that connects to the cloud. Store your company's files with cloud storage providers Amazon, Iron Mountain, Rackspace or Nirvanix using Nasuni's virtual file server.
Published by Market News Video on August 10th, 2010 |
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And Morgan Stanley raised its EPS estimates on shares of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) through 2012 as increased contract volume and pricing should boost earnings at the company.
Published by 4 Traders on August 10th, 2010 |
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Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the world's leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing, today announced the general availability of its Cloud Servers? for Windows offering
Published by SmarTrend on August 10th, 2010 |
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Shares of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) traded 0.9% higher yesterday, closing at $19.48. The stock has been drifting higher over the past nine trading days and is currently trading in a technical uptrend.
Published by The Street Insider on August 10th, 2010 |
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After opening today's trading session down more than 6% from yesterday's close, shares of Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) have now crept into positive territory.
Published by SearchCloudComputing on August 10th, 2010 |
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Rackspace's latest 10-Q shows the company sitting pretty in the cloud. Maybe not as pretty as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its reported $500 million in cloud bucks, but Rackspace may actually be growing faster than the online bookstore when it comes to cloud computing.
Published by SmarTrend on August 10th, 2010 |
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Morgan Stanley analysts are raising their price target for Rackspace Holdings (NYSE:RAX) to $27, from $26, rolling their DCF forward, and slighting lowering their capex estimates.
Published by San Antonio Business Journal on August 10th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting has released its Cloud Servers for Windows offering.
The company’s Cloud Servers for Windows is now available for businesses that use Microsoft Windows and Microsoft.NET technologies.
Published by The Whir on August 10th, 2010 |
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Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting (www.rackspace.com) announced on Tuesday it has begun general availability of its Cloud Servers for Windows offering.
Published by CNBC on August 10th, 2010 |
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Video: Harnessing the hottest growth story in tech, with Lanham Napier, Rackspace CEO.
Published by IT News on August 9th, 2010 |
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Canberra-based Cloud Central has struck a deal with global software firm enStratus to form part of an aggregated network of cloud computing providers that includes Amazon.com's AWS, Microsoft's Azure, Rackspace and Google.
Published by ZDNet on August 9th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting’s second quarter results topped estimates as revenue surged from the year ago quarter. The hosting and cloud computing company said revenue was $187.3 million, up 23.2 percent from a year ago (statement). Of that sum, managed hosting revenue was $164.1 million. Cloud computing revenue was $23.2 million.
Published by Bank Systems & Technology on August 9th, 2010 |
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the U.S. arm of Dutch banking giant ING (US$1.7 trillion in total assets), first became interested in cloud computing when it began estimating the current and future cost and time required to run certain applications, according to Alan Boehme, SVP, IT strategy and enterprise architecture, at ING Americas.
Published by Learing Markets on August 9th, 2010 |
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Analysts were expecting Rackspace Hosting, Inc (RAX) [Chart - Analysis - News] earnings to come in at $0.08 per share for last quarter, and RAX met expectations with actual earnings of $0.08---in line with the consensus estimate.
Published by RTT News on August 9th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting Inc. (RAX: News ) reported second quarter net income of $0.06 per share after the close Monday, down from $0.08 per share last year. The stock is now down 0.99 on 29K shares.
Published by The Street Insider on August 9th, 2010 |
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Hosting and cloud computing company Rackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE: RAX) is seeing shares slide in extended trade Monday after the company reported in line with market expectations for the second quarter.
Published by Kens 5 on August 8th, 2010 |
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Rackspace employees took over Ed White Middle School Saturday. They were packing backpacks with school supplies, painting rooms, and doing a little landscaping to improve the school's curb appeal.
Published by GigaOm on August 8th, 2010 |
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Guy Rosen, who does a quarterly calculation of the top 500,000 web sites hosted on cloud platforms, also has tracked impressive growth. As of Aug. 2010, his research shows 3,011 sites hosted on Amazon EC2, and 2,825 hosted on Rackspace Cloud Servers.
Published by eChannelLine on August 8th, 2010 |
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Rackspace in December 2009, Chris spent 12 years in the IT industry including time with 3Com and most recently with Extreme Networks working on its North American channel business and worldwide strategic alliances. Rackspace has recently signed a distribution contract with Ingram Micro and have become a leading Vendor in Ingram's newly established Cloud Conduit.
Published by Forbes on August 5th, 2010 |
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Rackspace is one of the premier providers of data center capacity, whether on dedicated servers or its newer cloud offerings, and is a favorite of Web startups. The Rackspace Cloud allows customers to activate new servers on demand and scale computing resources up or down "at a moment's notice."
Published by HealthStip on August 5th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Managed hosting, the UK’s fastest growing hosting specialist (http://www.rackspace.co.uk), is celebrating the fact that it has been ranked the 6th in the “Sunday Times Best Small/Medium Enterprise Companies to Work For” annual survey.
Published by Smartrend on August 4th, 2010 |
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Below are the top five companies in the Internet Software & Services industry as measured by relative performance. This analysis was compiled based on yesterday's trading activity as we search for stocks that have the potential to outperform.
Published by Information Management on August 4th, 2010 |
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Like any new tool, cloud computing promises vast utility and savings-and casts almost as much uncertainty.BTN polled a group of technology, analysts and financial pros on what they think banks should ask themselves and cloud providers before taking the plunge. The following checklist is based on their answers:
Is it safe?
Published by Market Intellisearch on August 3rd, 2010 |
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Shares of Rackspace Hosting gained $0.63 (+3.30%) to $19.70. The stock closed at $19.07 in the last trading session and today the shares of RAX opened at $19.03. So far today, the stock has hit a low of $18.77 and high of $19.85.
Published by ZDNet on August 3rd, 2010 |
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However, outside the report, there is competition: if OpenStack succeeds, RackSpace could be a leader in an expanding market, claiming the same kind of benefits that Amazon has been able to by being an early provider of cloud computing (EC2 launched in 2006) and at this year's I/O conference Google announced plans for their own online data storage service.
Published by Datamation on July 28th, 2010 |
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Practically every cloud computing provider – from Google to Rackspace, Amazon to Salesforce.com – has suffered through an outage at some point. When outages happen, skeptics question the viability of cloud computing.
Published by Information Week on July 28th, 2010 |
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Deltacloud APIs work with the NASA Nebula cloud engine and converts it into an alternative open source project.
Published by WebProNews on July 26th, 2010 |
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Elecronista reports that a new court ruling could set a legal precedent to allow the bypassing of DRM for fair use purposes. "The decision could impact the media industry as it may allow breaking DRM for music, movies and other formats as long as the material isn't pirated," says Electronista.
Published by EE Times on July 26th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting has announced the launch of OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability.
Published by San Antonio Express News on July 25th, 2010 |
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A collaboration between Gemini Ink, Rackspace and the Northeast Independent School District, the poetry tour is an attempt "to look at neighborhoods with fresh eyes," says Anisa Onofre, director of Gemini Ink's writers-in-communities program.
Published by DataCenter Knowledge on July 25th, 2010 |
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Here’s another example of a fast-growing online service moving into its own data center to gain more control over its infrastructure. 37signals, which makes web-based business apps, said this week that it has moved into colocation space in a Chicago-area data center. The company had previously housed its infrastructure with Rackspace Hosting.
Published by ChannelWeb on July 24th, 2010 |
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Fears about proprietary technology and interoperability have been holding back adoption of cloud computing, but Rackspace and NASA are tackling the issue head on.
Published by DataCenter Knowledge on July 24th, 2010 |
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Rackspace said late Sunday that it was donating the code for its Cloud Files and Cloud Servers offerings to OpenStack, a new open source cloud platform that will also incorporate code from the NASA Nebula Cloud Platform.
Published by ReadWrite Cloud on July 23rd, 2010 |
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Red Italian CloudsEarlier this week, Opsource announced a partner program. The news came on Monday, the first day developers could download code from OpenStack, a separate initiative that has had considerable attention this week.
Published by LinuxGram on July 23rd, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting wants to be the one that defines the public and private commodity cloud, denying bigger competitors the chance to do it.
Published by CMS Wire on July 23rd, 2010 |
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Rackspace (news, site) may have raised more than a few eyebrows this week when it announced that was open sourcing its hosting platform, but will the move bring more customers on board?
Published by CIOZone on July 22nd, 2010 |
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That the hosting company doesn't view its software as a major asset is obvious from its Web site, where the "Why Rackspace?" page cites support, uptime and expertise as the reasons to turn to its public cloud. But with the announcement this week that it plans to open-source its cloud platform, Rackspace's strategy has become more openly apparent.
Published by ZDnet on July 22nd, 2010 |
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Rackspace, of course, garnered the most credibility at the open source convention. Earlier this week, the hosting giant announced it had released its OpenStack cloud platform under an Apache 2 license and officially launched of the Openstack.org open source project.
Published by Nasuni.com on July 22nd, 2010 |
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In case you missed it, there was pretty big news this week coming out of Rackspace - one of our supported cloud storage partners - and NASA. They announced the release and open-sourcing of their cloud backend, now named “OpenStack”.
Published by Channel Insider on July 21st, 2010 |
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Several major IT vendors, including Dell, HP, Citrix and Rackspace Hosting gathered at OSCON this week to deliver a host of open source-related announcements to the ever growing open-source market.
Published by Read Write Web on July 21st, 2010 |
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Since the announcement of OpenStack crossed the wire on Monday, much of the emphasis has been on Rackspace's decision to open source their code and what this might mean in terms of the other major (proprietary) cloud players. But there are 25 companies who've signed on to the OpenStack organization and the benefit of the open source project will be far-reaching beyond just the cloud service providers.
Published by AOL Daily Finance on July 21st, 2010 |
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Rackspace has already contributed its Cloud Files system to OpenStack. As the name implies, this allows for high-end storage services (which can scale to millions of virtual servers).
Published by ReadWriteWeb on July 21st, 2010 |
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Since the announcement of OpenStack crossed the wire on Monday, much of the emphasis has been on Rackspace's decision to open source their code and what this might mean in terms of the other major (proprietary) cloud players.
Published by The Wall Street Journal on July 20th, 2010 |
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Behind the recovery in business spending is a surge in purchases of the computers that form the backbone of the Internet, as companies scramble to meet growing demand for video and other Web-based services.
Published by Federal Computer Week on July 20th, 2010 |
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NASA has been one of the leading cloud computing lights in the federal government with its homegrown Nebula technology; now it’s making a play for the same reputation in open source cloud circles through an association with a new industry initiative called OpenStack.
Published by Austin Business Journal on July 20th, 2010 |
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Rackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE: RAX) has partnered with NASA researchers in a joint technology development meant to leverage open-source software development worldwide.
Published by InformationWeek on July 20th, 2010 |
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Rackspace is sponsoring an open source cloud computing project, OpenStack, and contributing its own code to it in order to generate more uniform cloud environments in which customers can move around at will.
Published by The Motley Fool on July 20th, 2010 |
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Online hosting specialist Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is dead set on becoming a powerhouse in cloud computing services. Today, Rackspace took the Nebula code that runs NASA's cloud-computing services and made it open-source. Anyone can use, modify, and profit from using that code, developed in a close partnership between the space agency and the computing expert. Rackspace hopes to make Nebula a de facto standard for running scientific computing services in the cloud.
Published by ZDNet on July 20th, 2010 |
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For an open core company, setting the boundary between free and paid is a crucial decision. You need to make money but you also need to maintain open source credibility.
Published by CloudScaling blog on July 20th, 2010 |
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This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack’, should have a dramatic impact on the current dynamics for building cloud computing infrastructure. Previously there have been two major camps: Amazon API and architecture compatible and VMware’s vCloud. Now there is a third alternative that could not only be a viable alternative to these two approaches, but more importantly, a fantastic option for service providers and telecommunications companies that face unique challenges.
Published by ChannelWeb on July 19th, 2010 |
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Rackspace on Monday launched an open source cloud computing project the company hopes will make proprietary cloud computing a thing of the past.
Published by Cnet on July 19th, 2010 |
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Data center and cloud infrastructure service provider Rackspace is expected to announce Monday the release of a new open-source offering that will allow users to build and launch their own internal and hosted clouds.
Published by Slashdot on July 19th, 2010 |
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Techcrunch is reporting that Rackspace is open-sourcing their cloud computing technologies, under the name OpenStack. Rackspace has chosen to release under the Apache 2.0 license. The initial release encompasses the cloud object storage and cloud virtual server management suites. Along with this release, NASA is contributing technology from its Nebula Cloud Platform. Early partners include Intel, Dell, and Citrix.
Published by Giga Om on July 19th, 2010 |
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Last evening, I reported on the emergence of OpenStack, an open-source cloud project backed by Rackspace and supported by NASA and two dozen other companies. Since the initial news was released, a lot of folks have been sharing their sentiments about the offering and why they think it is important.
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