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Cloud Growth Slows at Rackspace, Which Cites OpenStack Transition
May 9th, 2013 : Rich Miller
Rackspace Hosting (RAX) said yesterday that its sales slowed in the first quarter, as customers are taking their time in adopting its new OpenStack cloud offering. Rackspace also faced headwinds in the face of pricing cuts from Amazon Web Services, and a sluggish environment for enterprise IT spending. Read More
Rackspace Acquires ObjectRocket for MongoDB Service
February 27th, 2013 : Jason Verge
Rackspace Hosting (RAX) is acquiring ObjectRocket, a MongoDB database as a service (DBaaS) provider. The acquisition expands Rackspace’s big data play, allowing them to provide Open Cloud customers with demanding applications with a NoSQL DBaaS. Read More
Rackspace Shares Slide as Cloud Revenue Moderates
February 13th, 2013 : Rich Miller
Shares of Rackspace Hosting are down nearly 20 percent in afternoon trading after the company's earnings raised concerns that the rate of adoption for cloud computing services may be moderating. The slide reflects Wall Street's high expectations for Rackspace, which saw its shares rise 72 percent in 2012 amid investor enthusiasm for cloud computing. Read More
Rackspace Hosting Partners with Alamo Colleges for $2.5 Million Job-Training Grant
February 8th, 2013 : Colleen Miller
Rackspace (RAX) and Alamo Colleges have partnered to provide job training to 1,000 workers, through the use of a $2.5 million Skills Development Fund grant from the Texas Workforce Commission. Read More
Rackspace Accelerates OpenStack Enterprise Push
January 30th, 2013 : Jason Verge
Rackspace Hosting (RAX) continues the OpenStack push with three new reference architectures, and some heavy-hitters get private cloud certified. Read More
Rackspace Plans Major Cloud Expansion in UK
January 21st, 2013 : Rich Miller
Rackspace Hosting plans a major expansion of its cloud computing infrastructure in the United Kingdom, and has hired Digital Realty Trust to build a new data center that will add 10 megawatts of capacity. Read More
Rackspace: We’ll Fill Data Centers With Open Compute Gear
January 17th, 2013 : Rich Miller
ll new servers added to the Rackspace Cloud will run on Open Compute hardware, the company said yesterday. The announcement at yesterday's Open Compute Summit marked one of the largest commitments to hardware designs based on the Open Compute Project. Read More
Cloud News: Savvis, Rackspace, Piston Cloud
December 4th, 2012 : John Rath
Savvis launches Cloud Storage, Rackspace enhances Open Cloud Platform, Piston Cloud names Jim Morrisroe as CEO.as Joshua McKenty shifts to CTO. Read More
Report: Wal-Mart’s Big Data Moves Will Boost Rackspace
October 22nd, 2012 : John Rath
Reports indicate that Rackspace (RAX) will likely win more business from retail giant Wal-Mart (WMT), which is hiring engineers for the OpenStack platform. Read More