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Published by Datamation on July 28th, 2010 |
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Cloud
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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Partner Network
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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Cloud
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 San Antonio Express News on July 25th, 2010 |
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Community Affairs
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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Product Releases
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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Cloud
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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Cloud
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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Cloud
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 CIOZone on July 22nd, 2010 |
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Cloud
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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Cloud
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 Channel Insider on July 21st, 2010 |
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Cloud
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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Cloud
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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Cloud
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 The Wall Street Journal on July 20th, 2010 |
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Cloud
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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Cloud
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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Cloud
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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Cloud
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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Cloud
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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Cloud
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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Cloud
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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Cloud
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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Cloud
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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Cloud
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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Cloud
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.
Published by The Next Web on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
Today, Rackspace introduces what they are calling OpenStack: an entirely open-source cloud platform, licensed under Apache 2. The same code that has powered Rackspace’s Cloud Files and Cloud Servers program is now going out to the world.
Published by EWeek Europe on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
Rackspace Hosting this morning has officially launched OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform that it hopes will drive the uptake of cloud apps, prevent vendor lock-in and encourage cloud interoperability.
Published by San Antonio Business Journal on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
Rackspace Hosting on Monday released OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform that’s designed to increase the availability of cloud computing technology.
Published by DataCenter Knowledge on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
Rackspace has unveiled OpenStack, a new open source cloud platform that will incorporate code from Rackspace’s cloud services as well as the NASA Nebula Cloud Platform. The announcement has triggered tons of reaction around the web.
Published by The Atlantic on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
Sometimes, you mix two trendy topics, and all you get is a mess. For instance, combine Mel Gibson and the Old Spice Guy, and you'd have one nasty set of viral videos. But other times, two buzzworthy themes combine perfectly, like the bacon craze and artisan ice cream. OpenStack, a new open source cloud computing initiative, is like the porcine ice cream.
Published by SD Times on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
Rackspace is collaborating with NASA to build an open-source cloud infrastructure that it said will help developers avoid provider lock-in with a Linux type model.
Published by Channel Insider on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
Rackspace and NASA partner on open-source cloud platform OpenStack, with Rackspace noting more than 25 companies, including Citrix and Dell, support open-source cloud platform to accelerate industry standards.
Published by Ars Technica on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
A group of cloud computing stakeholders have announced a new project called OpenStack, which aims to produce a standard open source cloud computing software stack. It will allow adopters to host their own elastic computing clouds and scalable storage grids. Key participants include hosting company Rackspace and NASA.
Published by BNET on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
Rackspace (RAX) announced a partnership with NASA and an open-source cloud platform called OpenStack. The concept is to give away a platform for private clouds, like a infrastructure-oriented Google (GOOG) Android. It’s a smart move and one that will continue to twist arms of the enterprise-business-as-usual gang.
Published by The Data Center Journal on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
An initiative led by NASA and Rackspace has resulted in the first-of-its-kind open-source solution for cloud computing.
Published by The New York Times on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
Rackspace, one of the largest Web site hosting companies and a cloud computing service provider, has bet that big customers will prefer an open, free roaming cloud to one with a proprietary wrapper. On Monday, the company heralded the start of OpenStack, an open-source take on the underlying technology behind cloud computing services.
Published by ZDNet on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
A consortium of cloud companies have announced OpenStack, a scheme designed to ease platform lock-in within the cloud through the use of open source and open standards.
Published by ZDNet on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
Rackspace, looking for credibility in the open source cloud stack arena, found it by drawing in NASA as an active collaborator.
Published by http://www.fastcompany.com/1671572/rackspace-cloud-server-custom-open-source on July 19th, 2010 |
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Cloud
Published by Austin American Statesman on July 8th, 2010 |
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Cloud
A Texas-bred leader in cloud computing warned Wednesday that the state's business tax is pushing its expansion and perhaps the whole industry elsewhere.
Published by Folio on July 7th, 2010 |
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Cloud
If the term “open source” has defined many online publishing efforts in recent years, “cloud computing” may dominate the next several years. Observers continue to argue over what “cloud” means but broadly it refers to virtual servers that can be set up quickly and in many cases, used on-demand (many publishers already use services that could be considered cloud-based, like Salesforce.com). Short-term, that means big time cost savings for building Web sites. Long-term, the cloud could dramatically alter traditional publishing services such as newsstand reports and fulfillment.
Published by IT Business on July 7th, 2010 |
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Cloud
Last year's economic downturn did more than produce awful balance sheets for vendors and resellers. What it also did was force IT buyers to behave differently than before, according to IDC analyst Rick Villars.
Published by Tech World on July 2nd, 2010 |
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Leadership
The recession may have had one good knock-on effect: it made enterprises more efficient when it comes to IT. According to a survey from Rackspace, 62 percent of organisations believe that the recession forced their organisation to make some tough decisions that were beneficial, but they would not have made under normal market conditions.
Published by ChannelPro on July 1st, 2010 |
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Cloud
Providers of cloud computing services are turning to the channel to help manage historic customer demand. Here’s a taste of what the top providers’ partner programs are offering.
Published by New York Times on June 27th, 2010 |
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Product Releases
There's a new wave of highly specialized technology — both software and hardware — built by and for Web titans like Facebook, Yahoo and Google to help them break data into bite-size chunks and present their Web pages as quickly and cheaply as possible.
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