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Today Rackspace announced it is open sourcing its cloud platform and releasing it as a project called OpenStack together with others. The code should be available for download (if not now then in a...

This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack#8217...

From our perspective, it looks like Amazon is winning the cloud race. Amazon and Google pioneered the notion of ‘devops‘, where agile practices are applied to merging the disciplines of...

As cloud computing evolves and interest grows expect to see more side-by-side comparisons and benchmarks across the various flavors of cloud-based services. Tom Henderson and Brendan Allen, both...

Rackspace, looking to drive additional growth via indirect sales, launched a new partner program based on feedback from its existing partners. The new program has two levels and associated volume-...

Rackspace launched the Windows Beta for Cloud Servers, which sees the company extending its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) options beyond its current availability with Linux. Rackspace...

Rackspace announced a partnership with FathomDB, which combines the cloud computing infrastructure services of the former with the relational database as a service (DaaS) of the later, to offer...

A number of leading cloud computing providers descended on the Santa Clara Convention Center last week for the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo. Check out our round up of the most exciting and...

Zend Technologies is, according to InfoWorld, leading the charge to solve the issue of vendor lock-in through application portability across public clouds. The Simple API for Cloud Application...

InformationWeek issued a new report comparing 12 cloud computing providers of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) across a range of criteria, including services, pricing, contract rules and platform...