Advanced Cloud

Raghavan Srinivas, Technology Evangelist for Intuit, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Is cloud computing hype or reality? Is it mere old wine in new bottles and the advancement of the notion that the “network is the computer?” Attend [...]

Our friends at Slicehost have some BIG news! Hook’em Horns! Gig’em Aggies! How ‘bout them Cowboys! Texas forever! I’ve run out Texas propaganda, but am delighted to announce that slices are live in the Rackspace Dallas datacenter. We’ve been working hard on this since the announcement last October and it’s a big step for us. [...]

Chris Brogan (http://chrisbrogan.com) recently moved his blog to Cloud Sites, and today he blogged about his initial experience. Chris teaches companies how to use Social Media tools to enhance their customer communications, increase sales, visibility, etc.  As Chris says, “I was pretty pleased with the transition from one service to the other, but what really [...]

Nothing gets too dusty around here lately!  As we continue to roll out more Rackspace Cloud Hosting offerings, and combine them all “under one roof”, we are also standardizing some of our “rules and regulations”.  To make things less confusing to those that are using both traditional Rackspace Hosting, and Rackspace Cloud Hosting (as well [...]

I thought that it would be worthwhile to outline the steps needed to purchase an EC2 Reserved Instance. Here’s what you need to do: Choose a Region. Choose an Availability Zone. Locate the Reserved Instance offering. Make the purchase. Enjoy…. &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp      

On Wednesday, May 27th at 8:00 AM PST, the Oracle Technology Network will conduct a Virtual Developer Day. Developers will learn how Cloud Development Environments can help enterprise Java developers create Java and Rich Enterprise Applications without having to download,… &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp      

We’ve put together a Mechanical Turk Resource Center jam-packed with interesting and useful information. You can start by reading about How Mechanical Turk Can Help Your Business. Then you can read about how requesters are using Mechanical Turk on our… &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp