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Rackspace challenges Amazon with cloud services
News Rackspace has launched the final component of its cloud strategy, bringing it into competition with cloud service providers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The other two components of Rackspace's cloud strategy are Cloud Files, an online...
[March 16, 2009, 14:59]
Rackspace opens wood-powered datacentre
News Hosting company Rackspace's latest datacentre — its first in Europe — draws its energy from a wood-burning power station, a strategy which the company says is cleaner than many of the alternatives. In line with the feeling among many companies that...
[June 10, 2008, 17:47]
Rackspace Leverages Red Hat Solutions to Provide Fanatical Support to Its Customers
White Papers Rackspace Managed Hosting, the leading managed service provider, entrusts thousands of its customers' Web servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network. Founded in 1998 on the premise that Web hosting requires great service in addition to...
[May 15, 2007, 1:00]
Indymedia server seizure 'may have breached RIPA'
News Around 20 Indymedia Web sites were taken down when two of its servers were removed from hosting provider Rackspace's Heathrow offices in London last week. To date, all Rackspace has said is it handed over the servers after being served a court...
[October 22, 2004, 9:57]
FBI seizes media network servers
News The group said in a statement on its Web site that federal authorities issued a court order requesting the computer equipment on Thursday morning to United States-based Web hosting provider Rackspace.
[October 11, 2004, 9:00]
IBM and Microsoft back Zend's cloud API plan
News In addition to IBM and Microsoft, other co-founders of the Simple Cloud API project are Rackspace, Nirvanix and GoGrid. The initial goals for the project are to create interfaces for file storage, document database and simple queue services from...
[September 23, 2009, 17:02]
Red Hat builds one API for many clouds
News In addition to EC2, the project currently supports Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation and VMware's ESX for virtualised private clouds, and will soon include Rackspace's cloud infrastructure. Deltacloud is just one more of a number of open-source...
[September 4, 2009, 13:06]
Cut-costs and feed the children, or save a rain forest...
Talkback The merchandiser ultimately signed a three year contract with RackSpace, Ltd.of San Antonio, TX. Now, because the original referral came through the affinity program, SplinterRock will be giving several hundreds of dollars to that local non-profit...
[April 5, 2007, 21:50]
Virtualised Web Hosting featuring the Quad Core AMD Opteron Processor
White Papers This short video profiles the role that AMD plays within Rackspace's 40,000 servers across the globe, with virtualised web hosting that delivers energy savings and flexible, scalable ease-of-use.
[November 20, 2008, 23:00]
Look2Me Remover
Downloads On each boot, the Trojan contacts a server at Rackspace.com. Look2me is a Trojan that is used to deliver other trojans and adware/spyware components. It then downloads potentially hundreds of other spyware components AND applications (that it...
[February 13, 2006, 7:00]
Xen.org to build open-standards cloud platform
News The Xen.org statement said it wanted to bridge internal enterprise clouds with "external cloud platforms like Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud Server and GoGrid". While Rackspace and GoGrid are both quoted as supporters of the XCP initiative, Amazon is...
[September 1, 2009, 13:27]
Webcast: Managed Hosting Delivers Reliable, Scalable Infrastructure
White Papers Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast, now available on demand, to hear John Engates, CTO of Rackspace Managed hosting, and Felipe Payet, Worldwide Channel Market Development Manager for AMD, discuss how a hosted environment that's powered by AMD...
[November 28, 2006, 12:51]
Pixar switches from Sun to Intel
News Pixar installed the Rackspace system over the previous six months and will use it to develop its next film, The Incredibles, which is likely to hit cinemas in 2004. Pixar Animation Studios, which brought the world Monsters and Toy Story, is...
[February 10, 2003, 8:56]
SWsoft turns in Virtuozzo 64-bit performance
News Customers include GoDaddy and RackSpace. SWsoft has updated Virtuozzo to support 64-bit x86 processors. Virtuozzo makes a single operating system, either Linux or Windows, appear to be several independent instances of the OS, instances the company...
[September 27, 2005, 9:30]
Google moves into business apps
Talkback Some will prefer the mixture of control and touchless ease that comes with dedicated hosting from providers like Rackspace. We at Ipswitch are great admirers of Google and customers of theirs, too. Gmail is an elegant and useful service, and it's...
[August 29, 2006, 14:08]
VMware enters the cloud-computing fray
News In this effort, it has enlisted partners ranging from BT and Rackspace to Verizon Business. Virtualisation specialist VMware on Monday opened up its VMworld 2008 conference with a flurry of announcements.
[September 16, 2008, 11:16]
Google tops list of UK's best workplaces
News Other IT companies in the rest of the list include search-engine optimisation business BigMouthMedia, tech support company IT Lab and server hosting company Rackspace. At its Silicon Valley complex, it's famed for pampering staff with free food and...
[May 29, 2008, 8:28]
Microsoft throws its weight behind the cloud
News Amazon is pushing its elastic computer cloud, and Rackspace, EMC, IBM and many other companies are trying to get a piece of the action. This week Microsoft gave evidence that it will continue to be a major force for at least the next decade.
[November 4, 2008, 10:37]
Rackable announces low-power rack system
News Rackable is not alone in its quest to improve heat and power use in datacentres — other companies, such as Rackspace, Dell, HP and IBM, are looking at similar ways, including lower power input, to find efficiency.
[March 27, 2009, 14:47]
Introducing Linux for technophobes
News The storage for that environment is hosted in data centres using rackspace, bought by Dawes, around the world. A new Linux distribution designed to be as user friendly as possible went into beta testing on Tuesday.
[April 18, 2007, 15:25]
