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Domino's Pizza finishes last piece of cloud computing move

Posted February 19, 2012 - 8:45 am

Domino's Pizza has completed a major move to cloud computing, aimed at freeing up internal resources.
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Rackspace buys Sharepoint consultancy

Posted February 16, 2012 - 1:31 pm

Cloud services company Rackspace has purchased SharePoint911, a consulting firm for SharePoint users.
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Rackspace to offer support for clouds in other data centers

Posted November 7, 2011 - 6:04 pm

Rackspace for the first time plans to extend its support services to OpenStack cloud implementations that reside within the walls of an enterprise or third-party commercial data centers, the company announced Monday.
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Why Mixpanel moved off the public cloud

Posted October 31, 2011 - 11:42 am

Mixpanel is a company based in San Francisco that provides sophisticated analytics for online companies. They are a cloud service, in that they host the software. But their cloud history has been anything but soft and fluffy.
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What CIOs don't know about cloud

Posted October 19, 2011 - 2:28 pm

John Engates was having dinner with IT executives from the celebrity news and gossip site TMZ.com when the news of Steve Jobs' passing hit the wires. At that point one might imagine the group issuing an all-hands-on-deck in anticipation of the traffic tsumami that was about to wash over their site. What actually happened was something quite different.
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Domino's Pizza delivers its systems into the cloud

Posted July 8, 2011 - 4:10 am

Domino’s Pizza UK is moving its e-commerce site, online payment gateway, corporate e-mail and back-office systems into the cloud, with the aim of increasing scalability and saving money.
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Rackspace offers hosted virtual desktops from Citrix

Posted May 23, 2011 - 2:52 pm

Rackspace hopes to make using virtual desktops easier by hosting Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp, it announced on Monday.
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Cloud CIO: Lessons from the OpenStack Design Summit

Posted May 4, 2011 - 11:37 am

The recent OpenStack Design Summit delivered some interesting insight on cost and infrastructure -- whether you're working with this open source technology, or other cloud platforms. Here are two lessons learned from eBay and Dell.
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Rackspace to wind down Slicehost

Posted May 3, 2011 - 6:56 pm

Some Slicehost users were dismayed to hear that Rackspace, which acquired the company in 2008, plans to wind down the service.
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Rackspace adds load balancing to cloud-based servers

Posted April 19, 2011 - 9:40 am

Rackspace's cloud computing division is offering load-balancing tools to help customers distribute workloads across multiple servers, providing applications with higher availability.
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Rackspace, Dell push OpenStack cloud OS

Posted March 8, 2011 - 1:14 pm

Rackspace will help enterprises build private clouds using the OpenStack cloud operating system, the company announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, Dell is seeking enterprises and service providers for proof-of-concept OpenStack trials with its Dell PowerEdge C family of servers.
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Rackspace to buy Anso Labs, advance Cloud project

Posted February 10, 2011 - 9:42 pm

Web-hosting provider Rackspace has acquired software developer Anso Labs to help build up the OpenStack cloud computing project, a company official said.
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Akamai, Rackspace announce something interesting only to them

Posted January 14, 2011 - 5:30 pm

Rackspace and Akamai are high-quality providers of complex services; what do you get when they combine forces? A press release that gets too much coverage.
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Rackspace buys cloud-server management start-up Cloudkick

Posted December 16, 2010 - 11:10 am

Cloud computing and IT hosting company Rackspace on Thursday announced the acquisition of cloud-server management applications start-up Cloudkick for an undisclosed sum.
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Rackspace combines cloud with managed hosting

Posted December 8, 2010 - 3:06 pm

Rackspace has launched a hybrid service combining cloud with managed hosting
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Cloud Computing Still Too Exciting; Feds, Rackspace Try to Dull It Up a Little

Posted October 21, 2010 - 5:36 pm

That may be less true of gaming tech or flashy Web sites or cool new information services.
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The stratospheric rise of cloud computing valuations

Posted September 27, 2010 - 3:11 pm

Whether it's from venture capitalists or Wall Street, the money keeps flowing to cloud computing companies.
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Rackspace and NASA team up on cloud launch

Posted July 19, 2010 - 10:32 am

Rackspace and NASA have donated code to OpenStack, a new open cloud initiative.
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Rackspace cloud chief predicts enterprise caution

Posted June 29, 2010 - 4:19 pm

Most large enterprises won't move their established applications on to cloud services for years but are embracing the technology for new projects, the head of Rackspace's cloud business said on Thursday at the Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco.
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Rackspace hires to align with MySQL offshoot

Posted March 9, 2010 - 2:26 pm

A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday.
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IT not convinced about cloud computing's green credentials

Posted September 28, 2009 - 11:21 am

IT bosses are not yet convinced over the green benefits from cloud computing, after Rackspace Hosting's third annual 'Green Survey' found that cost savings and consolidation are driving the green IT agenda at the moment.
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Rackspace to issue as much as $3.5M in customer credits after outage

Posted July 6, 2009 - 5:09 pm

Rackspace is being forced to pay out between $2.5 million and $3.5 million in service credits to customers in the wake of a power outage that hit its Dallas data center last week.
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Microsoft's Razorfish taps Rackspace for cloud hosting

Posted February 19, 2009 - 1:48 pm

Microsoft's Razorfish has chosen Rackspace as its cloud-hosting platform rather than wait for Microsoft to release Azure.
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Rackspace eyes Amazon with 'cloud' expansion

Posted October 23, 2008 - 10:36 am

Rackspace said Wednesday that it had agreed to acquire two companies that will expand and improve its cloud computing services.
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Rackspace IPO needed to cope with fast growth

Posted August 8, 2008 - 3:15 pm

Fifteen million shares of hosting provider Rackspace Hosting began trading under the symbol "RAX" on the New York Stock Exchange Friday for US$12.50 a share.
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