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By: Rackspace Shares its CDN Love with Akamai: Cloud Computing News «

Rackspace Shares its CDN Love with Akamai: Cloud Computing News « — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:51:20 +0000

[...] 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 «

How Heroku-Salesforce Deal Impacts Amazon Web Services: Cloud « — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:28:18 +0000

[...] 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

Will Rackspace Partnership Save FathomDB? – GigaOM — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:25:03 +0000

[...] 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 |

Rackspace opens its cloud | — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:28:19 +0000

[...] 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

Rackspace Opens Up Its Cloud for All | Tech Newz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00:18 +0000

By: Rackspace Opens Up Its Cloud for All

Rackspace Opens Up Its Cloud for All — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:52:20 +0000

By: Rackspace Offers Cloud Computing for Cautious Customers

Rackspace Offers Cloud Computing for Cautious Customers — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:01:12 +0000

[...] 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

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:21:24 +0000

[...] 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

Cloud News from Amazon and Rackspace « SmoothSpan Blog — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:07:44 +0000

[...] 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

RaiyaRaj — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:35:50 +0000

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.