Tag: rackspace
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NASA’s chief cloud architect talks OpenStack
At the inaugural design summit for OpenStack, an open source set of technologies for building clouds, Nebula’s chief architect Josh McKenty played a prominent role in leading the assembled folks. I caught Josh during a break and chatted with him about Nebula and NASA’s role in the newly announced OpenStack project. Here’s what he had…
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Talking to the Co-Founder of Rackspace Cloud
Earlier this month at Cloud World/Open World I bumped into Jonathan Bryce one of the two founders of the cloud platform formerly known as “Mosso” (now known as Rackspace Cloud). Last year when I interviewed Jonathan, I did an audio podcast. This time around I was armed with my Flip Mino and caught it all on…
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Rackspace goes down (2X), their President steps up
If you’ve been following the cloud space at all you’ll know that hosting provider Rackspace recently lost power twice within a span of 10 days. As NetworkWorld explained: Power outages on June 29 and July 7 hit Rackspace’s 144,000-square-foot data center in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine. Rackspace operates nine data centers worldwide for about…
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RightScale Part 2: Why the cloud? Apple Fanboys and Server Suffrage
Tuesday I listened in on the RighScale webinar: How to Build Scalable Websites in the Cloud. This is part two of my thoughts and notes from the event. (Note: it doesn’t look like it’s been posted yet but it should be available here soon). As I discussed last time, RightScale acts as a management platform…
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Talkin’ to Mosso Co-founder, Todd Morey
Last year I did a podcast with Mosso (“The Rackspace Cloud”) co-founder Jonathan Bryce. Last Saturday at Cloud Camp Austin I caught up with the other co-counder of Mosso, Todd Morey to get his side of the story. Some of the topics Todd tackles: How Todd and Jonathan formed a good partnership, Todd on UI…
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Lew Moorman and Robert Scoble of Rackspace
Last week Rackspace announced the appointment of Lew Moorman as president of Rackspace’s Cloud Computing Efforts. As luck would have it, Lew was attending Web 2.0 and I was able to grab a few minutes of his time to shoot a video. Not only that but as added bonus, recent Rackspace conscript Robert Scoble joined…
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The Cloud — Looking back at ’08 and forward to ’09: Taking with Rackspace’s Head of Strategy
I first met Lew Moorman, Rackspace’s Chief strategy officer, at Rackspace’s big Cloud Event back in October. It was at this event that Rackspace, through acquisitions as well their friendly annexation of Mosso, positioned itself as a major cloud player. I caught up with Lew during the slow time over the holidays and we chatted…
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Rackspace’s CTO John Engates and his “Cloudy” thoughts
Last but not least in the three podcasts I taped at the Rackspace Customer Event is my conversation with John Engates, Rackspace CTO. Like Lanham and Jonathan, John was a very approachable and likable guy. I checked out John’s presentation earlier in the day and then caught up with him in the afternoon to chat.…
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Chattin’ with Mosso co-founder, Jonathan Bryce
At the Rackspace Customer Event the week before last, I caught up with Mosso co-founder Jonathan Bryce. Jonathan walked me through how Mosso, now officially a Rackspace division, got started and where he sees it going. Take a listen: >> My chat with Jonathan (10:52): Listen (mp3) Listen (ogg) Jonathan chillin’ in the Baroque Westin…
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Talkin’ with Rackspace’s CEO Lanham Napier about the Cloud and Hosting
Last week I attended the Rackspace customer event down in San Antonio. On the first day of the event I was able to grab sometime with Rackspace’s CEO, Lanham Napier. We chatted about going public, the company’s recent acquisitions and its foray into the cloud via Mosso. Take a listen: >> My Interview with Lanham…
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Splitting the Cloud in Three
Last week I attended the Rackspace Customer Event (Lombardi Blueprint is hosted at Rackspace) down on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. It was a great event and I sat in on some cool talks as well as grabbed some time with several of the Rackspace execs. Later this week and/or early next week I will…
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Pics and Notes from Rackspace’s Cloud Event
Yesterday a little before noon I jumped in my car and headed to UT to attend the Rackspace Cloud Event. It was held on campus in the same building that “hosts” (bad pun intended) the local NPR station as well as the studio that Austin City Limits is filmed in. It was this studio that…