Rackspace

Networking Start-Up Nicira Wants to Mess Up Cisco and Juniper’s Business

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 5 at 8:59 pm PT

Watch out Cisco, Juniper and other networking vendors. Your business model is about to get disrupted by Nicira, which is coming out of stealth mode today.

Sound Bites From the SOPA Strike

Arik Hesseldahl in Media on January 18 at 5:22 pm PT

A roundup of some of the interesting comments made about SOPA and PIPA during today’s Web-wide protest against the bills.

Seven Questions for Rackspace CTO John Engates

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on June 15, 2011 at 7:32 am PT

The CTO of the Web host turned cloud computing player talks about open source cloud computing, noisy and nosey neighbors, and why the heck his company hasn’t been acquired yet.

Amazon's Cloud Crash Is Over, But the Talking About It Isn't

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 25, 2011 at 3:45 pm PT

The big crash of Amazon’s cloud that brought down hundreds of other Internet companies that rely upon it is over. Now everyone who was affected in one way or another is comparing notes on how they coped or didn’t. And for cloud providers not named Amazon, there’s going to be an obvious business opportunity.

Big-Data Start-Up Cloudera Kicks Hadoop Up a Notch

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 12, 2011 at 4:31 am PT

If you know anything about the open source data processing engine Hadoop, then you probably know a thing or two about Cloudera, the company that wants to make money helping big companies use Hadoop. Today, Cloudera is launching its own version of Hadoop with eight open-source tools bundled with it to make it useful to companies right out of the box.

Rackspace Turns Anso Labs Into a Cloud Services Business Unit

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 8, 2011 at 4:15 pm PT

Want to build a private cloud? Like OpenStack? Rackspace has a new business unit aimed at helping you.

Rackspace Is Not for Sale, but Thanks for Asking

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 14, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Rackspace is one of several companies thought to be likely acquisition targets following the buyouts of Terremark and NaviSite. Ask CEO Lanham Napier about it, and he insists the company is not for sale, but he clearly enjoys being asked.

Exclusive: Rackspace to Acquire Anso Labs

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 9, 2011 at 4:05 pm PT

Rackspace acquires a team best known for its work building a computing cloud for NASA.

Rackspace Q2 Revs Top Ests Despite Outage Credits

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on August 10, 2009 at 2:30 pm PT

Rackspace posted Q2 revenue of $152 million, above the Street consensus of $149 million. Results for the quarter reflect $2.4 million in credits related to service interruption at the Web hosting company, offset by $2.7 million currency benefits. Fully diluted profits of five cents a share missed the Street by a penny.