Articles about Rackspace
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 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 …
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 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 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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 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 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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 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 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 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 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 …
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 …
Rackspace wolfs down own OpenStack dog food
Rackspace Hosting, the service provider that helped launch the open source OpenStack cloud controller along with NASA's Ames Research Center two years ago, has finally become its own OpenStack Fanatic. Rackspace has now gone live with the Nova compute cloud controller and other elements of OpenStack behind its production Cloud …
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 hints at big Oz investment
Rackspace has hinted strongly at the announcement of a local data centre, with Australia/New Zealand Country Manager Mark Randall promising the company's "most significant investment" in Australia will be revealed on August 22nd.
While the cloudy company is not saying exactly what it plans to launch, the wonderfully-named Andrew …
Rackspace breaks billion buck barrier in 2011
It took twelve years, but Rackspace Hosting has chalked up its first billion-dollar year – and it's hoping to get to $2bn in a lot less time, planning some new cloudy services to help make that happen.
In the quarter ended in December, Rackspace brought in $283.3m in revenues, up 32 per cent year-on-year, with net income of just …
Rackspace eats own OpenStack heavenly dog food
Rackspace Hosting, one of the contenders in the fight to take on Amazon's eponymous Web Services division as the dominant public cloud, is finally confident enough in the OpenStack wares to start its internal rollout of the software underpinning its Cloud Servers, Cloud Files, and other services.
By doing so, Rackspace is …
Shift to clouds pumps up Rackspace Hosting
The customers and money keep rolling in for OpenStack cloud fabric co-sponsor Rackspace Hosting.
In the third quarter ended in September, revenues at Rackspace grew by 32.5 per cent to $264.6m. Managed hosting, the traditional unvirtualized hosting business that the company was founded to do, still represents the largest piece …
Morphlabs to cloud builders: Osmium is kryptonite to Amazon, Rackspace
Cloudy infrastructure provider Morphlabs is revving up its private cloud iron while at the same time wooing service providers with add-on software that makes it easier to run the OpenStack cloud control freak to create public clouds.
No one who can do math and configure and run systems well would argue that compute and storage …
Rackspace: 'We want to be your OpenStack maniac'
Rackspace Hosting, one of the cofounders with NASA of the open source OpenStack cloud fabric, is moving one step closer to running the OpenStack private cloud that you may be contemplating building.
After reporting its financial results for the third quarter, the company – which is known for its "maniacal technical support" – …
