Comments on: Rackspace Buys Two Startups to Beat Amazon's Cloud http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:01:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rackspace Shares its CDN Love with Akamai: Cloud Computing News « http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-574205 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:51:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-574205 [...] already has a CDN partnership in place with Akamai competitor Limelight Networks, but Akamai is the CDN market leader. Extending Rackspace support to Akamai services will make [...]

]]> By: How Heroku-Salesforce Deal Impacts Amazon Web Services: Cloud « http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-543697 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:28:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-543697 [...] the looks of it, Salesforce is in competition with Amazon. It has known to happen — when Rackspace bought Jungledisk, it kept AWS but expanded the storage service on its own platform. As I looked for answers, the [...]

]]> By: Will Rackspace Partnership Save FathomDB? – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150767 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:25:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150767 [...] that company’s rival service. Signing up with Rackspace gives it a protector (and one that likes to buy innovative startups), and also adds some competition to the emerging database-in-the-cloud market. Microsoft has one [...]

]]> By: Rackspace opens its cloud | http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150766 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:28:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150766 [...] its control panel to manually allocate the necessary servers. This helps bring Cloud Servers, which Rackspace acquired through its purchase of Slicehost last year, into the same league as Amazon’s EC2, which already allows developers to build [...]

]]> By: Rackspace Opens Up Its Cloud for All | Tech Newz http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150765 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150765 [...] its control panel to manually allocate the necessary servers. This helps bring Cloud Servers, which Rackspace acquired through its purchase of Slicehost last year, into the same league as Amazon’s EC2, which already allows developers to build [...]

]]> By: Rackspace Opens Up Its Cloud for All http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150764 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:52:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150764 [...] its control panel to manually allocate the necessary servers. This helps bring Cloud Servers, which Rackspace acquired through its purchase of Slicehost last year, into the same league as Amazon’s EC2, which already allows developers to build [...]

]]> By: Rackspace Offers Cloud Computing for Cautious Customers http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150763 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:01:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150763 [...] is expected to announce its own on-demand computing product, CloudServers. The service is built on the company’s acqusition of Slicehost last year and will offer the same services as Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud. It’s [...]

]]> By: Cloud - Web and Service Cloud » Microsoft Launches Cloud Platform Azure at PDC - Another creation from the legion of the drawcode - drawk http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150762 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:21:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150762 [...] at Amazon and now Microsoft.  Google also recently announced the support of Java.  Another set of aquisitions at Rackspace in the buying of Slicehost and JungleDisk also seem to show the space heating up and the companies all believing in the cloud platform [...]

]]> By: Cloud News from Amazon and Rackspace « SmoothSpan Blog http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150761 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:07:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150761 [...] also point to what I think we’ll see as a major trend and that Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm has picked up on:  hosting vendors need to start thinking about how they can transition to being cloud vendors as [...]

]]> By: RaiyaRaj http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150760 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:35:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150760 Now Amazon got good competitor. This will improve server hosting market. People was not much aware with cloud computing. Only big players were thinking for cloud computing, small sites with less traffic & less technical capability has not thought about it. I think this kind of competition will bring market to next level.

]]> By: TrueCloud http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150759 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:55:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150759 I’ve been using Jungle Disk for over a year (after multiple updates) it has been really, really stable. What is strange about this news is that Jungle Disk has been using Amazon’s Web services (excess capacity) to deliver. Selfishly, will my files continue to be located on Amazon’s iron, or will they be transfered to RackSpace?

Either way, this kind of news bodes well for Cloud Computing in general. We believe that Cloud Computing will be the lubricant to get companies through this tough economic period. In our case, we are a NetSuite provider. Our career experiences were in the Fortune 500 IT arena. We were collectively blown away by the power of NetSuite compared to the systems our former company had spent millions on. The fact that Software as a Service (SaaS) makes access to amazing applications extremely affordable is critically necessary for companies to make progress when things are tight.

After you finish watching the Rackspace CEO talk about Cloud Computing, you might watch ours (35 year Fortune 500 CIO whose mantra has become “less IT”) do the same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgdjrLDLxuo

]]> By: Search SMB Asia http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150758 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:36:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150758 I love their service.
Below is a video from Rackspace CEO, who shares his thought on cloud computing and hosting trends.
http://www.searchsmbasia.com/content/cloud-computing-hosting-trends-smbs

]]> By: Rackspace buys two startups to boost cloud based services « Phil Derksen http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150757 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:55:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150757 [...] details at TechCrunch and GigaOM. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Jungledisk – Online storage application £Cloud [...]

]]> By: Amazon Opens Windows For All, and EC2 Graduates - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150756 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:38:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150756 [...] agreement. Yesterday, Rackspace ran hard to keep up with Amazon’s cloud offerings — acquiring two startups — but, with a full production computing cloud out of beta, it looks like Amazon is still in [...]

]]> By: Roundup: Moore’s Law extended, AT&T pays Apple $900M, Bill Gates’ new venture and more » VentureBeat http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-150755 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:36:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-150755 [...] buys two cloud companies — In a bid to compete with Amazon’s cloud services, hosting company Rackspace has bought Slicehost and Jungle [...]

]]> By: Roundup: Moore’s Law extended, AT&T pays Apple $900M, Bill Gates’ new venture and more » VentureBeat http://gigaom.com/2008/10/22/rackspace-buys-two-startups-to-beat-amazons-cloud/#comment-208740 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:36:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=25963#comment-208740 [...] buys two cloud companies — In a bid to compete with Amazon’s cloud services, hosting company Rackspace has bought Slicehost and Jungle [...]

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