GigaOm's Barb Darrow posts on IBM's acquisition of SoftLayer. Who would have thought 7 years ago when AWS launched that they would be a threat to IBM's business model. IBM’s acquisition of SoftLayer is a bid to make the IT giant relevant in a world where Amazon Web Services has come in from left field to snarf up workloads that IBM would very much like to own. That’s a big problem for Big Blue. Increasingly, IBM is not just competing with age-old hardware and software rivals like Oracle and HP, but also with Amazon. Going forward, IBM will butt heads more with Google and Microsoft, which have staked big claims in public cloud infrastructure. It is interesting to think of this as a battle between IBM's software developers and Amazon Web Service's software developers.
Rackspace US, Inc. (dba Rackspace) is a IT hosting company based in San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in the United Kingdom as well as data centers operating in Texas, Virginia,the United Kingdom and Hong Kong in late 2008. A subsidiary of Rackspace, MailTrust™, operates in Blacksburg, VA.
Rackspace's support ideology - termed Fanatical Support™ - and team structures involve all "Rackers" (employees).
Rackspace's data center expansion in the Chicago-area is confirmation of the trusted partnership we share, As Rackspace grows, we will continue to provide highly efficient data center design coupled with operational excellence so that Rackspace can continue serving their customers with an unmatched service experience.Hossein Fateh in Rackspace Expands Chicago Data Center
We are witnessing a revolution in how businesses choose to buy and consume IT. Where in the past, organizations ran their own entire IT operation; increasingly they are choosing to buy IT as a service from firms like Rackspace.In Web Host Rackspace Launches Critical Sites Service in Europe
This simple and straightforward pricing approach is a key part of how we help customers take advantage of the real value of the Rackspace Open Cloud, particularly for the next generation of bandwidth and content-centric web applications, which must deliver quality user experiences on a mobile and global basis.In Rackspace Hosting Drops Price of Cloud Bandwidth and CDN by 33 Percent
