Category: Rackspace
Rackspace, Equinix and Dell form partnership to deploy OpenStack cloud platform
Rackspace, Equinix, and Dell on Wednesday announced a partnership to offer an OpenStack demonstration and test environment to customers. This test environment will enable the customers move cloud assets between data centers in different regions, and will be the first implementation of geographically dispersed data centers running OpenStack. In making the announcement, Vince DiMemmo, Equinix [...]
Rackspace brings the cloud to the UK
Rackspace today officially announced the extension of its cloud computing infrastructure into the UK, with several services provided from datacentres in the country designed to reassure organisations with strict data protection and service level requirements. The hosting firm, which is Amazon Web Services’ main rival in the cloud computing space, will be offering its cloud-based [...]
Rackspace Announces new Open Source Cloud Platform
Rackspace is sponsoring an open source cloud computing project, OpenStack, and contributing its own code to it in order to generate more uniform cloud environments in which customers can move around at will. The move will likely generate new competitors for the Rackspace Cloud. One small provider, cloud.com, is already committed to adopt the project’s [...]
