Rackspace News & Articles

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.

Ten weeks after launching the OpenStack "Bexar" release, the OpenStack Cloud Operating System is now ready for commercial deployment with the "Cactus" release. Rackspace Hosting (news, site) has announced major updates to the OpenStack code, which includes three core applications: OpenStack Compute, Object Storage, and the newly added Image Service. The Cactus release is meant as a commercial-grade software intended for large-scale cloud deployment, as it highlights stability and reliability updates.

Last year, Rackspace (news, site) announced that it will be involved in starting an open-source, open-standards cloud initiative called OpenStack (news, site), along with major industry players such as NASA. OpenStack has since launched release "Austin" in October, with OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Object Storage. Now, OpenStack launched its "Bexar" release, with new features and official documentation, making the software deployment-ready.

What do you get when a major cloud hosting service and a cloud optimization service team up? This partnership can probably be considered a match made in cloud heaven.

The recent release of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Web Hosting has underlined the disruptive effects the evolution of cloud computing is having on the Web hosting market.

Cloud hosting and cloud computing service provider Rackspace (news, site) has recently announced its newest acquisition and a move to enhance its cloud infrastructure worldwide starting 2011.

In the latest move to make itself one of the players in the cloud, Rackspace (news, site) has just launched the equivalent of an app dating site where its new service AppMatcher will match businesses with whatever applications they need from a list of more than 1000 SaaS apps.

 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?

Even with falling euro values, times are still tough in the SMB space. But this week there are a number of hosted options, including one for SharePoint 2010, that might help. Confirming the in-roads hosted and cloud computing is making, Rackspace is taking its services to Europe.

Welcome to the May installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

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Announcements were flying fast and furious at Drupalcon this week. Yet another involved Acquia (news, site), Rackspace and hosting.

Are your skies a little too cloudy? Cloudkick is here to help. The application visually unifies the deployment of seven different providers, including EC2 and Rackspace.

Rackspace, the widely-used Web hosting provider, has announced two major acquisitions that will add value to its cloud computing offerings. In a tandem move, the hosting company has purchased JungleDisk and Slicehost.

JungleDisk is a popular client that gives Windows, Mac and Linux users easy access to Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) by providing the cloud storage offering as a drive letter on their computer. Additionally, by acquiring SliceHost, Rackspace picks up a hosting competitor and will integrate Slicehost’s storage capabilities with JungleDisk as an additional storage facility within the JungleDisk client.