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Optimize your WordPress Site with W3 Total Cache on Rackspace Cloud Files

— This post was written and contributed by Frederick Townes, CTO of Mashable and Developer for the W3 Total Cache plug-in, a Rackspace Cloud Tools partner. WordPress is among the most popular open source publishing platforms on the planet. Out-of-the-box it performs in any hosting environment, but with W3 Total Cache, ...

Sep 02 12:44:54 pm PDT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

Private Network Interfaces: The Forgotten Security Hole

— This post was written and contributed by Major Hayden, Linux Systems Engineer for the Rackspace Cloud. He’s also known as “Racker Hacker.” Regardless of the type of hosting you’re using – dedicated or cloud – it’s important to take network interface security seriously. Most often, threats from...

Aug 31 07:43:50 am PDT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

The Rackspace Cloud on the Road – September 2010

— We’ll be on the road in September evangelizing the Rackspace Cloud and would love to meet you. If you’re in one of the cities where we’ll be, drop us a line and we’ll schedule a time to meet up. TechCrunch Disrupt Sep 27-29th, San Francisco, CA TechCrunch Disrupt is a three-day, single-track con...

Aug 30 10:56:59 am PDT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

Chef meets the iPad with OpenStack

— Mike Mayo is the mobile apps developer for the Rackspace Cloud and OpenStack. Since OpenStack was announced, we’ve seen a flurry of activity in the developer community. Hundreds of people have made over a thousand contributions and we couldn’t be more excited. Today I’d like to share one of the more unconventio...

Aug 30 07:39:02 am PDT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

Virtualization Backup Round-up

— With VMworld around the corner, it is interesting to note the new an old players within the Virtualization Backup space. The virtualization backup space often includes: * VM Backup * VM Replication * Continuous Data Protection (CDP) * Storage Hardware Replication Pretty much anything that will ...

Aug 27 05:15:48 am PDT / The Virtualization Practice»

Getting the most out of your CRM

— This post written and contributed by, Bill Harrison, President of Epicom, a Rackspace Cloud customer. Epicom builds and supports high-performance web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems and through our partnership with the Rackspace Cloud, we also host CRM systems for a wide variety of industries. A...

Aug 26 09:32:06 am PDT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

Interacting with your Swift install

— Once you have swift services running, you are going to want to interact with them. (You can have them running in minutes if you want: swift-solo) Most of the currently available tools that interact with Rackspace’s Cloudfiles are hardcoded to that API endpoint, so even though the APIs are virtually identical, ...

Aug 23 10:00:32 am PDT / Cloudscaling»

Want to see Rackspace at SXSW 2011? You Can Pick Us!

— Every year, Rackspace gets heavily involved in SXSW and this year will be no different. It’s an event that brings some of the brightest minds in the tech industry into one vibrant city, right up the road from our headquarters. With SXSW 2011 being right around the corner, now is the time to pick the SXSW [...]

Aug 19 11:03:57 am PDT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

We Want to Hear from You!

— Customer feedback is what drives the decisions made here at Rackspace. We’re always listening to customers whether over email, on the phone, or in person and it’s the feedback received that drives our development efforts. We just launched a new way for you to offer your feedback as well as see what others are sugge...

Aug 19 09:54:08 am PDT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

SureElements Relies on the Rackspace Cloud to Handle 8000% Increase in Traffic

— Every company wants their website to attract as many visitors as possible and ultimately convert those visitors into customers. But how do you prepare for one huge traffic spike, all on the same day…and you have no idea how many visitors to expect? Enter SureElements, a creative web agency based in New York and Washi...

Aug 18 07:08:57 am PDT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

APC intros high-density overhead data center cooling system

— InRow technology can be used for retrofits, without taking up valuable floor space.

Aug 17 11:36:41 am PDT / data center Resources | ZDNet »

Zendesk Makes Great Customer Support Easy

— This post was written and contributed by Matthew Latkiewicz, Online Editor for Zendesk, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. Zendesk is a leading provider of web-based customer support software with elegant ticket management and a self-service customer community platform. Built upon the idea that help desk software doesn�...

Aug 12 06:15:45 am PDT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

Postmark: Email Delivery in the Cloud

— This post was written and contributed by Chris Nagele, Management & Strategy for Wildbit, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. Wildbit has created web products like Beanstalk, Postmark and Newsberry. I’ll start this off with a simple question. If your application or site sends email, how many of those emails are...

Aug 11 08:01:19 am PDT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

Does OpenStack Change the Cloud Game?

— 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 hav...

Jul 20 12:01:46 pm PDT / Cloudscaling»

Interview with Tim Mangan about his new book about App-V

— Blogger , speaker, consultant, and friend of the site Tim Mangan just released a book (today!) about App-V. Tim's been in this space a long time (and is one of five people who have spoken at all eight BriForums), but this is his first book. I interviewed...(read more)

Jul 18 09:00:00 pm PDT / Brian Madden»

Site Selection,Data Center Clustering and their Interaction

— I have written many times on the importance of the site selection for data centers and its growing importance when one considers the regulatory and legislative efforts underway globally. Those who make their living in this space know that this is going to have a significant impact on the future landscape of...

Jul 14 06:05:26 pm PDT / LooseBolts»

San Jose approves development agreement with Cisco Systems to add office space

— The San Jose City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to approve a development agreement between Cisco Systems and the city to that would allow the giant tech company to build up to 2.5 million square feet of additional office and industrial space on its main campus in North San Jose.

Jun 23 08:39:38 am PDT / Cisco»

In Cloud Market, Arming David May Be the Way to Take Down Goliath

— When all is said and done, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com might be battling it out for PaaS (and SaaS) dollars against a whole slew of smaller providers operating within the infrastructural confines of AWS, Rackspace, Terremark and Savvis.

Jun 06 07:00:44 am PDT / GigaOM � iaas»

How Much Integration Is Too Much in the Cloud?

— If you’ve been following the data center hardware space for the past year, you might be under the impression that integrated stacks are the future of IT. But it doesn’t look like customers are buying into the promise of having just one throat to choke.

May 30 08:00:10 am PDT / GigaOM � Cisco»

Using a Market Economy

— Every so often, I come across a paper that just nails it and this one is pretty good.. Using a market Economy to Provision Resources across a Planet-wide Clusters doesn’t fully investigate the space but it’s great to progress on this important area and the paper is a strong step in the right direction. ...

Mar 23 07:13:22 am PDT / Perspectives»

Bursting CPU's and Distributed Applications

— I wanted to call out a specific post I just read. The reason is the because it highlights a very specific area of cloud computing that often seems little understood. That is, CPU Burst-ability. http://www.thebitsource.com/2010/01/11/rackspace-cloud-servers-versus-amazon-ec2-performance-analysis/ I'll say that I've h...

Jan 13 02:20:25 pm PST / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

Using Curl to Access the Rackspace Cloud API

— I've been playing around w/ the Rackspace Cloud API quite a bit. Then, today I got an email from a reader of this blog asking me how it works more or less. So, I thought I'd post a couple of the examples I've been using. In the absense of a fancy GUI to control cloud servers I've simply been using Curl and writing litt...

Aug 02 12:10:26 pm PDT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

Sphinx Install: Ubuntu 9.04 Rackspace Cloud Server

— Today, for a project, I needed to install Sphinx on an Ubuntu 9.04 Rackspace Cloud server. This will get it done and might come in handy for folks. Launch a shiny new cloud server w/ the ubuntu 9.04 server template provided by Rackspace. apt-get updateapt-get install libmysql++-dev make gcc+ g++ Go to a director...

Jul 30 09:05:28 pm PDT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

Qualcomm manages more than 285 servers per administrator with VMware and the HP BladeSystem

— Qualcomm increases data center scalability despite power, space, and cooling constraints with HP BladeSystem

Dec 04 12:10:15 pm PST / HP Server News & Podcasts»

RES Software Delivers Upgrades to Industry Leading User Workspace Management Solution

— RES Software announced the availability of a service release for its flagship offering, RES PowerFuse. In this second service release, RES Software has added support for Microsoft Office 2010, a critical feature as more organizations make the move to the latest version of the Microsoft Office platform. The upgrade also...

Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / All DABCC Virtualization & Cloud Computing: Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft Resources - RSS»

Cloud: Over Subscription vs. Over Capacity – Two Different Things

— There’s been a very interesting set of discussions lately regarding performance anomalies across Cloud infrastructure providers. The most recent involves Amazon Web Services and RackSpace Cloud. Let’s focus on the former because it’s the one that has a good deal of analysis and data attached to it. ...

Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Rational Survivability»

Hoff’s 5 Rules Of Cloud Security…

— Mike Dahn pinged me via Twitter with an interesting and challenging question: I took this as a challenge in 5 minutes or less to articulate this in succinct, bulleted form. I timed it. 4 minutes & 48 seconds. Loaded with snark and Hoffacino-fueled dogma. Here goes: Get an Amazon Web Services [or Rackspace or Terr...

Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Rational Survivability»

Why Is NASA Re-Inventing IT vs. Putting Men On the Moon? Simple.

— Image via Wikipedia I was struck with a sense of disappointment as I read Bob Wardspan’s (Smoothspan) blog today “NASA Fiddles While Rome Is Burning.” So as Bob was rubbed the wrong way by Alex Howard’s post (below,) so too was I by Bob’s perspective. All’s fair in love and space...

Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Rational Survivability»

Dear Verizon Business: I Have Some Questions About Your PCI-Compliant Cloud…

— You’ll forgive my impertinence, but the last time I saw a similar claim of a PCI compliant Cloud offering, it turned out rather anti-climatically for RackSpace/Mosso, so I just want to make sure I understand what is really being said. I may be mixing things up in asking my questions, so hopefully someone can sh...

Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Rational Survivability»

High Density PDU Maximizes Rack Space

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Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / ServerTech Blog - Information for the Data Center Equipment Manager»

Rackspace Kicks-Ass in 2009

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Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Thinking Out Cloud»

Rackspace: The Avis of Cloud Computing?

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Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Thinking Out Cloud»

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