Rackspace: In search of really huge accounts

Rackspace: In search of really huge accounts GigaOM With its OpenStack-based cloud coming online, Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier says the company can take on Amazon Web Services for the biggest of big accounts, provided those accounts want the sort of value-add service Rackspace provides. See all stories on this topic » GigaOM

Singapore claims highest understanding of cloud in APAC ZDNet Companies in Singapore are the most confident of their knowledge about cloud computing across the Asia-Pacific region, thanks to the strong push and lead by the government for enterprise cloud adoption and national efforts to attract service providers ... See all stories on this topic »

Joyent has a new product and new CEO GigaOM The moves are in preparation for a big play in the coming months as the company looks to build the right computing platform for data and cloud applications. Structure Europe 2012 Jason Hoffman of Joyent photo: JULIADEBOER PHOTOGRAPHY. Joyent, the ... See all stories on this topic » GigaOM

The Opportunities And Losses Caused By Cloud Computing In Disaster Recovery CloudTweaks News For those who integrated cloud computing to back up data and streamline operations during Superstorm Sandy, disaster recovery and continuity were guaranteed for a while. In fact, for businesses whose operations were purely cloud-based, continuity and ... See all stories on this topic »

The Safest Way to Invest in "the Cloud" and Earn 5% Yields StreetAuthority And nowhere is it more apparent than in the high-growth cloud-computing sector. Companies that specialize in cloud services and infrastructure have seen big gains in sales and earnings in the past few years as the trend of outsourcing technology ... See all stories on this topic »

Datacentrix unveils cloud offering for local market ITWeb Datacentrix, a provider of high performing and secure ICT solutions, has officially introduced its cloud computing offering, aimed at assisting enterprise-level customers in meeting their off-premise outsourcing needs. Says Jan Dry, CTO and head of ... See all stories on this topic »

Crypto keys can be stolen from neighbours in the cloud New Scientist (blog) Cloud servers let users run simulations of an ordinary computer, called virtual machines (VMs), on remote hardware. A VM performs exactly as an ordinarycomputer would, but because it is entirely software-based, many of them can run on a single ... See all stories on this topic » New Scientist (blog)

Cloud Channel Summit: Business Models Emerge For Partners CRN Channel partners looking for a way to build a cloud practice found several possible paths Monday at the Cloud Channel Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Partners heard from a series of cloud deployment veterans who outlined a ... See all stories on this topic »

Netflix open sources dynamic query goodness for Amazon cloud GigaOM Video streaming giant Netflix, which has become something of an Amazon Web Services whisperer, is open sourcing code for a dynamic querying tool that can help engineers “learn the stories” of their AWS cloud deployments, according to a Netflix blog post. See all stories on this topic » GigaOM

GreenButton Cloud Fabric Platform Helps MSPs Move Compute Intensive ... The Complete Managed Services Resource GreenButton, an IT automation and utility computing software provider, has launched its GreenButton Cloud Fabric. The server solution enables users that are running compute intensive applications to deploy, manage and run multiple applications in ... See all stories on this topic »