Data Center Knowledge

Rackspace and Virtualization

Posted By Rich Miller On March 9, 2008 @ 8:33 pm In Virtualization | Comments Disabled

The use of virtualization at Rackspace has been a topic of interest since the company released a customer survey [1] last August which highlighted the challenges of virtualization, including customer resistance to sharing virtualized resources. When Rackspace launched dedicated virtualized servers [2] in January, some media reports said the company had backtracked [3] on its previous stance.

Tarry Singh [4] at Virtualization for Everyone has posted an interview with Rackspace CTO John Engates [5] exploring the companies’ virtualization strategy, as well as its “data centers as a service” and cloud computing.

About Rich Miller [6]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

Article printed from Data Center Knowledge: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com

URL to article: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/03/09/rackspace-and-virtualization/

URLs in this post:

[1] customer survey: http://www.rackspace.com/downloads/surveys/VirtualizationSurvey.pdf

[2] dedicated virtualized servers: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Jan/22/rackspace_rebrands_to_emphasize_it.html

[3] backtracked: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9060639

[4] Tarry Singh: http://tarrysingh.blogspot.com

[5] interview with Rackspace CTO John Engates: http://tarrysingh.blogspot.com/2008/03/rackspace-cto-interviewed.html

[6] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

Copyright © 2011 Data Center Knowledge. All rights reserved.