http://gigaom.com/2010/12/16/did-rackspace-buy-cloudkick-to-keep-up-with-aws/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:33:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2010/12/16/did-rackspace-buy-cloudkick-to-keep-up-with-aws/#comment-591052 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:31:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=276703#comment-591052 [...] trademarked “Fanatical Support.” Another option he suggested might be selling Cloudkick’s monitoring and management software to OpenStack users. Rackspace will be “much more explicit” about its OpenStack support [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/12/16/did-rackspace-buy-cloudkick-to-keep-up-with-aws/#comment-590096 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:03:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=276703#comment-590096 [...] Perhaps everyone just sees the writing on the wall. At the current pace, it will take almost 10 years for cloud revenue to eclipse hosting revenue for Rackspace, but I don’t think it will take that long. For one, total net revenue increased only 7.5 percent quarter over quarter compared with 17.1 percent for cloud revenue. And then there’s OpenStack. Its open source foundation aside, the project presents a prime opportunity to offer services and premium versions of the software that could end up making Rackspace a lot of money — and that’s on top of the increased sales that undoubtedly will come when Rackspace replaces its current cloud platform with the supposedly superior OpenStack software. We also don’t know exactly how Rackspace will monetize the Cloudkick management and monitoring technology it acquired in December. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/12/16/did-rackspace-buy-cloudkick-to-keep-up-with-aws/#comment-577071 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:30:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=276703#comment-577071 [...] November. Bryce added that OpenStack is evaluating how to integrate the Cloudkick technology that Rackspace acquired last month — a difficult proposition because much of Cloudkick’s value comes from being a hosted [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/12/16/did-rackspace-buy-cloudkick-to-keep-up-with-aws/#comment-574204 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:51:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=276703#comment-574204 [...] Rackspace’s dedicated hosting and cloud computing businesses. Coming just a month after Rackspace bought cloud monitoring startup Cloudkick, the Akamai partnership appears to be another indicator that Rackspace is doing everything it can [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/12/16/did-rackspace-buy-cloudkick-to-keep-up-with-aws/#comment-565663 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:37:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=276703#comment-565663 [...] we’ve seen AWS seriously upgrade its CloudWatch service in the past few months, and why Rackspace bought Cloudkick last month. Customers want to know what’s going on with their cloud servers so they can take [...]

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