Posts Tagged ‘ Rackspace ’

Interview with Rackspace CTO at HITEC

Last week I had the opportunity to interview John Engates, CTO of Rackspace after his appearance on the Cloud Supersession at HITEC in Austin, TX. In the interview we cover a topics such as: Compare and contrast Cloud v. Virtualization strategies Advice for customers struggling with how to justify ROI for the cloud when they have existing [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 2-7-11

Lots of mobile platform announcements this week and that’s even before the Mobile World Congress kicked off. But some big travel industry news too, leading off with… ITA Software renewed its agreement with Orbitz thorugh 2015. This is the first contract that was renewed since the announced acquisition by Google.  This should definitely help clear [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 12-13-10

Sorry for the late post, just trying to get things done before the end of the year like everyone else Google is starting to do what every company has feared…biasing results based on the promotion of their own content, not the “authority” and quality of the results. TripAdvisor is the first to feel their [ READ MORE ]

Time to Call BS on Cloud Vendor Lock-In

The only issue more overblown than Cloud Security may be this one. I was reading yet another post on the topic today and felt compelled to write this. The premise the Lock-In Boogeymen are selling is that because of the proprietary APIs and mechanisms that are used in many of the large cloud computing (e.g. IaaS [ READ MORE ]

10 Things that Caught My Eye: Week of 7-19-10

Hot industry stats, debates on legislation, an Open Source cloud stack and other news of note: Since Congress has started to take up the question of whether airlines need to be transparent about ancillary fees across channels, in order to allow travelers adequately compare real costs of their choices, Timothy O’Neill-Dunne puts forward the definitive answer. [ READ MORE ]

Red Hat Dreams of Single Cloud API is Simply That

Last week Red Hat’s CTO Brian Stevens introduced a new initiative called Deltacloud that has a very lofty goal of simplifying the process of invoking cloud services via a new unified standard.  It address interoperability which can be an important challenge in cloud computing for ISVs.  Out of the box they have some pretty good [ READ MORE ]

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