Comments on: Rackspace Opens Up Its Cloud for All

By: Do Service Providers Forecast the Enterprise Storage Future?

Do Service Providers Forecast the Enterprise Storage Future? — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:02:16 +0000

[...] service providers. In addition to Amazon S3, there are now compelling offerings from Microsoft, Rackspace, EMC, and soon, Google. Even though the public clouds have garnered more than their share of [...]

By: Out of Beta, Cloudkick Launches Cloud Management Service – GigaOM

Out of Beta, Cloudkick Launches Cloud Management Service – GigaOM — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:07:51 +0000

[...] the workings of a panoply of cloud services – whether they buy them from Amazon’s EC2, Rackspace or other providers. The service currently works with EC2, Rackspace, Linode, GoGrid, Slicehost, Rimuhosting [...]

By: Venkat

Venkat — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:32:22 +0000

HI,

What is Rackspace Cloud Server API? and How can I use that with ASP.NET application?

Can you please tell me?

By: Digital Media Buzz - Rackspace Opens Up Its Cloud for All | Digital Media Buzz

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:23:34 +0000

[...] 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 platforms and management products on Amazon’s cloud through its own APIs………[read entire story] [...]

By: Join Us at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2009 | The Rackspace Cloud

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:52:38 +0000

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By: DF

DF — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:52:21 +0000

Typo: “plants to add more features”
Should be: “plans to add more features”

By: Rackspace opens its cloud |

Rackspace opens its cloud | — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:28:23 +0000

[...] Rackspace, the web hosting company that is trying to morph itself into a utlity computing provider has just taken a step in the right direction to make it happen. By opening its API’s, Rackspace will make it’s cloud offering useful to the developer community. You you, it’s kind of hard to imagine being successful the in the utility business without the support and involvement of developers. Rackspace said today that it will release the APIs for its Cloud Servers product, which provides on-demand, per-instance-based computing. Releasing the APIs means a variety of companies — such as RightScale — will be able to build products and development platforms using Rackspace’s cloud without going through 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 platforms and management products on Amazon’s cloud through its own APIs. (GigaOM) [...]

By: David Robins

David Robins — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:42:13 +0000

This is indeed good news. The price of cloud storage will come down in near future.

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:11:10 +0000

Sounds like a good deal people!