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Articles about Rackspace
Rackspace refuses to enlist in cloud's latest price cutting war
Cloud provider Rackspace will stand on the sidelines as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft slash prices in an attempt to destroy each other's profit margins.
The web hoster's chief technology officer, John Engates, told El Reg's cloud bureau by email that "Rackspace is not a commodity cloud provider," when we asked if it would match …
Rackspace patches Windows Updater vuln
Rackspace has patched an arbitrary code execution bug in its Windows environment, following an advisory from CloudPassage.
CloudPassage discovered that the Rackspace Windows Agent and Updater allowed unauthenticated users to upload a modified version of the agent binary to Rackspace Cloud Server instances. The modified code …
Rackspace shares pummelled by CEO retirement shock
Hosting provider Rackspace delivered good results on Monday along with the shock news that its chief executive Lanham Napier would be stepping down.
The Texan hoster-turned-cloud-seller reported a solid set of results for its fourth quarter of 2013 with net revenue of $408m, up 16 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2012 and …
Rackspace roadmap preps new cloud tools to take on big-bucks giants
Rackspace has a raft of upgrades planned that could make life easier for sysadmins who work with the company's public cloud and hosted managed servers, we're told.
This is according to roadmap slides, shown to The Register by a source, that were presented during Rackspace's webcast with customers earlier today.
To confront the …
Rackspace seals new UK data center in frosty air-cooled TOMB
Cloud and hosting provider Rackspace will put the chilly air of England to work cooling servers in a new facility – though its approach differs from other energy-saving techniques used by Google and Facebook.
The company announced on Wednesday that it had broken ground on a new data center site in Crawley, West Sussex, with …
Rackspace catches up to Amazon... four years later: Say hi again to auto-scale
Rackspace has announced the general availability of "Auto Scaling" technology for its public cloud, catching up with Amazon which implemented the tech in 2009.
Auto Scaling is a crucial component of any cloud, as it allows new resources to be allocated to live virtualized servers in real-time in response to demand, and without …
Rackspace to fire up VMware hybrid cloud
VMware's world has just become a little more complicated, after Rackspace announced it now offers “Dedicated VMware vCenter Servers”.
Rackspace's new service will allow VMware users to “migrate existing VMware workloads out of their on-premise data center into a Rackspace data center” in an arrangement that “will look and feel …
Rackspace cracks wallet on cloud 'developer discount'
Rackspace has is seasoning new developer accounts with cloud credits as the Texan company tries to lure punters into its bit barns.
The "Developer Discount" program was announced by the company on Tuesday, and will see it give developers new to the service $50 of account credit per month.
"Developers, hackers, devops people and …
Go East! Rackspace expands public cloud to Asia
Rackspace Hosting announced the launch of its first public cloud service in Asia in Hong Kong today, allowing businesses in the region to tap the firm’s Hybrid Cloud offering for a more flexible mix-and-match approach to IT infrastructure.
Rackspace Hybrid Cloud gives customers the option to choose any combination of public and …
HDS and Verizon pair up to take on Rackspace, Amazon in the clouds
Verizon’s public cloud, which we've already heard is to use Oracle's Database, is going to offer a storage service based on HDS’s Content Platform.
The two suppliers have announced an agreement to develop a software-defined storage solution using HCP and HCP Anywhere.
Verizon is huge, with, for example, 100 million retail …
FLASH, AH-AAAH! Saviour of the universe Rackspace cloud?
The "fanatical service" acolytes of Rackspace have added a hefty flash-backed range of servers to their cloud as part of a strategic revamp.
The upgrade of the company's cloud platform was announced on Tuesday and sees the Texan data wrangler press some high-memory "performance cloud servers" into duty for its battle with Amazon …
Rackspace shares crater in drab results aftermath
Rackspace's shares have fallen off a cliff after the Texas cloud company reported less than glowing revenues.
In a sign of the fractious affections of the financial market, the company's shares were down almost 25 per cent in trading on Thursday, following Wednesday's lackluster results.
Though Rackspace grew revenue 20.2 per …
Rackspace fluffs .NET cloud support
Rackspace is making overtures to Microsoft users by broadening .NET support for its cloud and managed hosting, though these devs may be increasingly swayed by Azure.
The company announced a Cloud SDK for Microsoft.NET, and a PowerShell-based API client "PowerClient" for Rackspace public cloud services on Wednesday. The two tools …
Rackspace hurries out 'Solum', a half-formed platform cloud project
Second-tier cloud operator Rackspace has launched yet another OpenStack project, this time seeking to tear up the nascent platform-as-a-service market.
"Project Solum" was announced by Rackspace architect Adrian Otto on Wednesday and sees his company - along with partners eBay, RedHat, Ubuntu, dotCloud, and Cloudsoft and …
Rackspace claws fistful of bucks from Amazon-ruled cutthroat cloud bearpit
Rackspace is making less money than before on higher revenues as a vicious cloud market takes a cleaver to what was previously a steady business.
The Texan web-hoster-turned-cloud-provider reported a net income of $16m on revenues of $389m on Monday for its third quarter of 2013, missing analyst expectations on profit but just …
2013 data centre rental: Rackspace? Microsoft? No. Twitter nom-nommed through most megawatts
Twitter leased the single largest data centre of any tech, cloud or media company during 2013, beating the usual suspects in the size-really-does-matter race.
The micro-blogging site topped a tech league table of the industy’s largest hitters, according to a survey of who rented and built what during 2013.
One single data …
Rackspace does tech support for popular languages on its cloud
Rackspace Hosting has spent the past six months putting together a set of officially sanctioned software development kits and runtime environments for popular programming languages to run on its eponymous infrastructure cloud, and now it is ready to offer tech support for those SDKs when companies deploy applications on the …
Rackspace won't match Amazon on prices
Amazon's relentless campaign of price cutting has forced a response from one of its rivals, with Rackspace arguing that price is not the sole factor that should matter when choosing a dedicated cloud instance.
In a blog post published on Tuesday, Rackspace's chief technology officer John Engates indulged in a few paragraphs of …
Amazon's cloud cash pile dwarfs Microsoft and Rackspace's best efforts
Amazon reported record revenues from the "other" category of its earnings on Thursday, showing strong growth in its cloud division and highlighting the stranglehold it has on the virtualized compute and storage market.
The $1.011bn in cash that flowed through "other" in the third quarter of 2013 towers above the previous quarter …
Google joins Amazon, HP, Rackspace in easing HDD data importing
Google has followed in the footsteps of Amazon by making it easier for businesses to load in masses of data to the company's cloud platform.
On Tuesday Google announced it is letting companies ship their encrypted data in on HDDs, which Google will then load into Google Cloud Storage on their behalf. Other cloud providers that …
Rackspace, CERN partner on OpenStack projects
Sure, hyperscale data center operators may cope with hellacious big data problems as they spy on everything we do on the intertubes, but what about the poor men and women who have to drink from the data firehose that CERN's Large Hadron Collider spews as it works to rip apart the fabric of space and time? Well, thankfully, they' …
Rackspace gobbles Exceptional Cloud Services for Redis smarts
Just a month after chowing down on MongoDB provider ObjectRocket Rackspace is announcing plans to devour another company, this time gobbling up a Redis hoster Exceptional Cloud Services.
The folks at the Texan cloud company just can't get enough NoSQL, and Thursday's acquisition sees them absorb a team familiar with both Redis …
Rackspace cosies up to mobile developers
Texan cloud prospector Rackspace hopes to strike gold by partnering up with mobile-focused companies to mine a rich vein of developer services.
The company announced on Tuesday a scheme that sees it offer free "mobile cloud stacks" service to developers, while partnering with mobile-specialist companies for additional services …
Cloud Foundry laps up attention in EMC, IBM, HP, Rackspace, SAP, VMware love-in
The Cloud Foundry open-source project looks set to become a standard piece of technology in the thriving distributed systems ecosystem: its main backer, Pivotal, has persuaded IBM, HP, SAP and Rackspace to join a new foundation dedicated to the tech.
Today's announcement of the launch of a formal open governance model and …
Rackspace plugs event monitoring into its servers
Rackspace has broadened the capabilities of its cloud monitoring technology by letting admins put an agent on their servers to get a clearer idea of how apps are using hardware resources.
The upgrades to Cloud Monitoring include server monitoring, a graphing feature for viewing old data, PagerDuty integration, and multi-data …
Rackspace goes to Israel, picks up slick new weapon for cloud wars
Cloud operator Rackspace has hopped over to Israel and returned with a secret weapon that could give it capabilities hard to find in Amazon and Microsoft clouds.
The weapon? ZeroVM, an open-source lightweight hypervisor that presents a single-threaded environment and can be spun up in as little as 5 milliseconds. It is based on …
Rackspace spends big bucks to peddle its cloud vision
Rackspace Hosting may be growing its cloud business much faster than its overall business, but the company's rate of sales growth is declining and its profits are also getting pinched.
It is tough not to root for Rackspace, one of the founders of the OpenStack cloud controller project and a big hoster that is transforming itself …
AppFog PaaS drops Rackspace IaaS
Platform-as-a-service provider AppFog is evaporating its cloudy bridge to Rackspace due to poor customer demand, in yet another case of the fluffy industry coming to terms with hard business realities.
AppFog provides an application infrastructure automation service – otherwise known as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) – that lets …
Price cuts, OpenStack transition make Rackspace miss in Q1
Rackspace Hosting did not turn in the kind of first quarter it wanted for the period ending in March, so expect knee-jerk reactions and hyperventilating from investors who think it can't stay in the cloud game against the likes of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
Its results did not meet Wall Street's expectations, with only 20.2 …
Rackspace floats virty router and firewall into its clouds
Moving to clouds should mean breaking free of all kinds of specific hardware devices and running as much software as possible on generic virtual machines – which is why Rackspace Hosting is partnering with Brocade Communications to bring its Vyatta vRouter software to its public and private clouds.
Brocade has been gradually …
Rackspace elastic cloud goes live in Australia
Rackspace has commenced offering its elastic cloud products in Australia.
The company splashed down down under last year, offering only traditional hosting from the Digital Realty bit barn its rented in western suburbs of Sydney.
The cloud contender has now switched on its full array of Open-Stack-powered elastic cloud goodness …
Rackspace sues 'the most notorious patent troll in America'
Texan hosting firm Rackspace is going on the offensive with a legal challenge to non-producing entity (or patent troll, as they are more commonly known) Parallel Iron – a firm Rackspace describes as "the most notorious patent troll in America."
Rackspace is still feeling cocky after its victory last week in the Eastern District …
Rackspace cuts network bandwidth prices on its cloud
Rackspace, which bills itself as "the open cloud company", is cutting prices in its ongoing effort to tear a chunk or three of business away from closed source Amazon Web Services, the public-cloud leader.
Amazon didn't just build the first viable public cloud, it keeps cutting the price on its various compute, storage, and …
Rackspace swallows ObjectRocket for MongoDB smarts
If you are going to take on Amazon Web Services, like Rackspace Hosting is doing with its eponymous cloud, then you'll need a lot more than raw infrastructure services. Rackspace requires various platform services, and it also needs the expertise to run them.
Pat Matthews, vice president of development at Rackspace, tells El Reg …
Rackspace attacks Amazon with new cloudy clones
Look out, Amazon Web Services. Rackspace is cloning its own cloudy service – and to quote Jimi Hendrix's Foxy Lady, it's "comin' to getcha."
Way back when, Rackspace Hosting teamed up with NASA to create the OpenStack community precisely to leverage the smarts and excitement of the open source community to take on the closed and …
Rackspace rides OpenStack, lassos chubby, cloudy cash cow
Rackspace Hosting is doing something right – many things, actually – as proven by its latest financial report that revealed hefty increases in customers, revenues, and profits.
The company started out small, and has only recently entered the ranks of large enterprises with its dedicated hosting and now cloud computing services …
Do you need to command an OpenStack cloud? Hello, Rackspace
Once you get a complex piece of software like OpenStack built, the next thing you have to do is make it easier for system administrators to use.
Then you have to integrate it with the various management tools they already have deployed in their data centers.
This is what Rackspace Hosting, one of the driving forces and probably …
Texas judge sends Uniloc packing in Rackspace patent suit
In a rare move, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has granted early dismissal of a patent lawsuit filed by Uniloc against Rackspace, having found that Uniloc's patent described nothing more than a mathematical formula and was therefore invalid.
"The early dismissal of this case delivers a clear message that …
Rackspace lands in Australia
Rackspace will take possession of one data hall in Digital Realty's new Sydney data centre, and pack it full of kit to serve Australian customers.
The company revealed the new data centre today at a press event at which Jim Fagan, its Managing Director for the Asia Pacific Region, said Australian customers are mad for cloud and …
Rackspace sales and profits pop in Q3
The cloud computing wave and the goodwill and technical expertise that Rackspace Hosting has attained through its founding of the OpenStack cloud control freak, more than two years ago, are helping to puff up the company's finances.
Both revenues were up 27 percent and net income was up 36 per cent in the third quarter, to $336m …
Rackspace stream from the Clouds to you 'will out-flow the Amazon'
Rackspace is using OpenStack to build out its own Cloud Block Storage service, butting up against Amazon's EBS and offering cheaper standard storage and much faster SSD storage.
The Cloud Block Storage (CBS) service offers "consistent and reliable" performance for file systems, databases or other storage intensive applications, …
Rackspace, MacTel snipe in the cloud
Rackspace’s arrival in Australia last week – complete with a swipe at local player Macquarie Telecom – has brought a response back from MacTel.
Rackspace announced that it will take a hall in a Digital Realty facility in the Sydney suburb of Erskine Park.
As noted by The Register at the time of launch, Rackespace’s decision was …
Rackspace to ride Hortonworks elephant into the clouds
Rackspace Hosting has spent the past two years helping craft the OpenStack cloud control freak and getting it running its public and private cloud services. And now, to get more of the IT wallet, Rackspace wants to peddle more services atop OpenStack, whether it is humming in your shop or in its own glass houses. And one of the …
Rackspace rolls up OpenStack for private clouds
Amazon doesn't believe in private clouds, only public clouds and when you get down to it, only its own Amazon Web Services. Rackspace Hosting, which has supported other people's apps for a lot longer than AWS, believes in public clouds just as much as Amazon - enough to start the OpenStack cloud controller project and use the …
Rackspace to build custom servers, storage for cloud biz
Rackspace Hosting is getting into custom server design, and it is working with manufacturing partners with the Open Compute Project to get its tweaked versions of servers, storage arrays, and racks created by Facebook to run the social network manufactured by multiple suppliers.
The hosting giant and cloud contender has made no …
Rackspace snaps up SharePoint911
Managed hosting and cloud computing provider Rackspace Hosting has hired a bunch of techies with expertise in a particular software stack, this time focusing on Microsoft's SharePoint web content and document collaboration tools.
Rackspace today snapped up privately held SharePoint911, a consulting firm based in the hamlet of …
Rackspace touts OpenStack private cloud prowess
The OpenStack Design Summit kicked off today in San Diego, California, and Jim Curry, who had been managing the development effort for the OpenStack cloud control freak for the past two years, tells El Reg that he is enjoying not frantically running around running the show, and instead participating, along with the entire …
Rackspace profits from cloudy transitions
Rackspace Hosting, which co-founded the OpenStack cloud controller effort with NASA two years ago, was bragging last week that it had finally went live with OpenStack on the compute side.
But the funny bit is, as Tuesday's results show, that business has been booming even before it moved to the Essex release of the OpenStack …
Former Insight veep Akkerman rocks up at Rackspace
Former Insight veep of sales Olaf Akkerman is expected to join Rackspace as enterprise sales director, according to sources close to the matter.
He resigned from the reseller last month after less than a year in the role – though he had been at Insight since September 2006 when it acquired Software Spectrum.
Sources have now …
Rackspace: Why we're designing our own cloud servers
Any cloud computing provider that wants to operate at scale and compete against its peers is under pressure to build some kind of custom hardware. It may, in fact, be necessary to compete at all.
That is what Rackspace, which is making the transition from website hosting to cloud systems, believes. And that's why the San Antonio …
