The Rackspace Cloud 2.0 Now Available on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch for Free SAN ANTONIO, TX – March 11, 2011 –Rackspace®, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, today formalized a new program, the Rackspace Startup Program, where Rackspace provides cloud computing resources to startups participating in programs with 500 Startups, TechStars, Y Combinator and General Assembly. In addition to the program, Rackspace also announced the availability of the version 2.0 application, Rackspace Cloud 2.0, now available on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Rackspace Startup Program Rackspace has partnered with premiere startup accelerators and
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IBM Ties Up With Music Company On The Cloud Last week I wrote about the lack of development of cloud computing solutions geared towards the entertainment industry, and how mainstream developers can learn from that one industry that has still remained on the sidelines and yet driven advances in technology – pornography (See: Unlikely Lessons For The Cloud Computing Industry) Now, IBM seems to be addressing this gap in its product and service portfolio, as per its announcement at IBM PartnerWorld 2011 in Florida. IBM announced that Music Mastermind, a mid-sized independent entertainment and technology company founded by Grammy Award-winning
Gelb’s Expertise and Success With NetApp MultiStore Educates the Market and Drives New Cloud-Based Solutions ORANGE, CA–(Source: Marketwire – January 5, 2011) – Insight Integrated Systems (IIS), a division of Insight Investments LLC, the industry expert in technology solutions and financial engineering, today announced that Scott Gelb, senior consulting systems engineer, Insight Integrated Systems, was formally recognized by NetApp for his contribution and giving back to the NetApp community through his work with cloud-based MultiStore® storage technology. This award was presented recently in Las Vegas, NV, at the NetApp Insight Tech Conference*, a three-day networking and technical training event. Together,
The 2010 cloud computing winner Who was the 2010 cloud computing winner? It’s a subjective topic. And you’re really comparing apples to oranges. There are SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings, all serving different customer needs. Some vendors are established, while others are only just getting started. And of-course, people tend to declare a technology they are familiar with as a winner. To identify a winning technology it’s usually best to go straight to the market and see what people are actually using. Winning technologies get adopted, new jobs get created and specialized skills get requested for. Below is the job
Platform as a Service: Read the fine print I’m surprised at the number of startups that are now going directly to the cloud, bypassing traditional web hosting solutions and avoiding the need to own a server in-house. That’s great news, and at a minimum it shows that the big players — Google, Amazon and Microsoft — are marketing well to the startup crowd. But I am even more surprised at the number of startups that make critical cloud platform selections without reading the fine print. The little details with Platform as a Service (PaaS) are the ones that cause the most
Here is a partial list of semi-finalists for the AWS Start-Up Challange. From the group of semi-finalists, seven finalists will be inivited to Silicon Valley for the finale on December 8th where they will compete for the grand prize of $50,000 in cash. Full Source of this information is from the AWS Blog LabSlice – Australia LabSlice allows you to create demos, evaluations and training environments that are stored in the cloud and can be easily shared. We extend the Amazon EC2 cloud to create a self-service and policy controlled lab, where you can share a machine simply by sending
