The battle of cloud computing platforms continues and OpenStack vendors are celebrating another win for their platform. The National Security Agency (NSA) announced at the Portland OpenStack Summit that it is successfully using OpenStack technology. Surely, if the U.S. intelligence agency puts its data on OpenStack, skeptics can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Even though OpenStack has been lauded as e ...

After Amazon  announced cloud support for .Net users last month, Rackspace has now come up with its cloud proposal that will help Microsoft .Net developers to take advantage of cloud features and services for developing new and different applications. Rackspace is offering a high-quality open cloud service to businesses of different sizes across the world. After its successful acquisition of Exceptional Clo ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) are growing quicker and getting better day by day. After reaching one-trillion objects mark in less than a year, now Amazon is stocking over two trillion objects in its Simple Storage Service (S3) cloud storage. Although Amazon has not revealed the allocation size of its stored objects yet proclaims the object's range from zero to 5TB in size. These objects hold a key, a Version ID ...

  The cloud is getting bigger and better over time in providing quality services to users across the globe; however many people are still worried because of the rising security concerns. Therefore to continue growing, cloud vendors need to change this perception, and take note of the security issues. Amazon, a bigger name in cloud services industry has stepped forward to combat with the rising security ...

Choosing a hosting provider for your company is no easy task. Hosting affects everyone involved with managing and deploying data within your IT infrastructure. This includes everyone from server administrators to web/app developers to designers to webmasters. As you can see, this is no easy decision for any type of company. There are several viable options out there for all sizes and company types, but navi ...

It's common knowledge among web developers and Internet professionals alike that Java is on its way out. Even the federal government is on board with the idea. In fact, recently the Department of Homeland Security recommended that all users disable Java due to its significant security vulnerabilities. The big problem is that while users can disable Java in their browsers, it's impossible for users to disabl ...

Technology is rapidly changing the world around us. One invention that has changed the way people read, perhaps more than any other since the invention of the printing press, is the e-reader. People are able to carry thousands of books in the palms of their hands. It’s revolutionized the book and publishing industry in much the same way that Apple revolutionized the world of music. In fact, many people blam ...

If you’re a business owner or executive, you want to choose website developers, hosting companies and cloud computing providers that will support your business for the long term. Of course, it’s conceivable that in some cases a relationship with a cloud vendor won’t work as you expect. Therefore, no matter what industry you’re in, it’s imperative to the long-term success of your business that you maintain f ...

For a little over a decade, Rackspace has been working with developers and other web professionals to make the web a better place through simplified data management systems and open standards. They have built a reputation around offering what some would call over-the-top customer service. Rackspace has actually labeled it “Fanatical Support.” In recent years, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service (Iaa ...

By Ryan Galloway Ryan Galloway is a freelance writer and editor based in New York City and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. One of the key offerings currently shaking up the cloud space is the Virtual Desktop. Rackspace announced its own mighty entry into the field in 2011 with Rackspace Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD). Using Citrix technology, Virtual Desktop brings together three core services from ...