Rackspace News & Articles

Start off the New Year with a new gig -- we've got a shopping list of hot jobs for you to browse. Our featured jobs list is a great collection of opportunities spanning specialties and continents. Here's who's hiring this week (and if you're hiring, post your open jobs here).

There have been numerous reports over the years on how cloud computing has developed, how businesses are taking to it, and how it is being used in the home. However, little enough research has been done to assess what vendors think about it. A new report aims to remedy that.

Could the key to better government lie in its mountains of already free and available data? 

Rackspace might have just helped SharePoint along in its journey to being used by every business on earth. The Texas-based cloud services provider has announced its new end-to-end SharePoint offering that provides hosting, design, development, training and support.

Installing Liferay on Amazon Web Services (AWS) just became a little easier thanks to a new partnership between Liferay and BitNami.

As promised, Adobe has announced that its CQ Cloud Manager now supports Rackspace in addition to the already in-place support for Amazon EC2.

Start off Fall with a new gig -- we've got a shopping list of hot jobs for you to browse. Our featured jobs list is a great collection of opportunities spanning specialties and continents. Here's who's hiring this week (and if you're hiring, post your open jobs here).

Rackspace has rebranded its Critical Sites service to Critical Application Services. With the rebranding it has extended the service to the open cloud and to its Adobe CQ web content management customers.

Rackspace has finally gone live with its OpenStack-based cloud. The company began stress testing the services back in April. Now, Rackspace has taken it live.

OpenStack is opening up opportunities for a whole new array of cloud platforms. This week, several OpenStack community members have announced the launch of the first ARM-powered cloud platform, which is currently being tested through the TryStack sandbox implementation.

OpenStack is gaining momentum. This week, OpenStack turns two, and with the "terrible twos" stage comes growing pains. Rackspace, which has partnered with NASA and a few other cloud computing industry players in developing the open-source project, is switching its codebase to OpenStack. But with this second-year anniversary, the open-source cloud computing platform faces new challenges altogether.

A new content management and e-commerce hosted platform has been released by a United Kingdom-based company. Label Media’s Yetti platform, announced last week, is intended to provide agencies with a flexible set of tools for fast building and easy maintenance of websites for their clients.

There are few ways better to dispel rumors that your baby might be ugly than taking your carefully incubated bundle of joy out for the entire world to see. That’s precisely what Rackspace has done with its open source progeny, OpenStack.

The G-Cloud framework is a procurement initiative projected to save the UK government £ 120 million by 2014. Developed in only four weeks, the CloudStore offers more than 1,700 cloud-based products and services from more than 250 vendors.

Rackspace is capitalizing on the trend for organizations to mingle with the masses while working in its own cozy little cloud. The company announced that it is making enhancements to RackConnect, the hybrid cloud solution it introduced late last year.