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- the open cloud company. Backed by Fanatical Support®. Questions? Need help? E-mail (help@rackspace.com), call or live chat with us http://t.co/zanf9XITam
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- San Antonio, TX
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Hadoop World Rackspace Hosting has spent the past two years helping craft the OpenStack cloud control freak and getting it running its public and private cloud services. And now, to get more of the IT wallet, Rackspace wants to peddle more services atop OpenStack, whether it is humming in your shop or in its own glass houses. And one of the first services that Rackspace wants to plunk on top of OpenStack with a price tag on it is, not surprisingly, the Hadoop big data muncher.As a proponent of full open source cloud control software, it is not surprise at all that Rackspace has partnered up with Hortonworks rather than Cloudera, MapR Technologies,
Deploying, managing and running a large-scale, enterprise private cloud is not an easy task. One of our goals here at Rackspace is to make it easier for you to deploy and run clouds.To ease the shift to the cloud, we’ve partnered with leading hardware and software providers to create three new Private Cloud Open Reference Architectures built for enterprise-class, highly-scalable clouds. Those reference architectures are:The cloud is a paradigm shift that affects IT operations and introduces an entirely new business model; therefore defining Open Reference Architectures is an essential step towards achieving cloud maturity. Through these reference
Duan van der Westhuizen leads Product Marketing for the Rackspace Private Cloud portfolio. Duan has spent more than 15 years in IT in a wide range of avenues including systems engineering, database development and design, web development, business intelligence and product management. He has worked in various global locations including Africa, North America and the United Kingdom, where he started in 2006 at the Rackspace office in London. Before moving to Product Marketing, Duan was the Product Line Leader for Rackspace Managed Virtualization. Duan currently lives in San Antonio with his wife, his baby daughter and their two dogs.Since the OpenStack-
Rackspace will be present at Cloud Connect in Chicago this week! If you’re a Rackspace customer we would love for you to stop by our booth and talk to us about how your company uses the Open Cloud. We also have several Rackers speaking during the conference:10AM, Keynote: John Engates: Our Cloud is Your Cloud – Embracing Open Cloud Infrastructure StandardsDescription: There are inherent obstacles when you embark on a two-year journey to build one of the largest open source public cloud infrastructures. These include challenges that range from building a community of developers and partners around a brand new open source project to the the massive
Cloud-aware application development now fuels the IT engine. In this new world, it’s imperative that both developers and IT operations understand the complexities of true cloud integration. There’s no way around it… the future of Enterprise IT—the key to successful cloud adoption—is DevOps.Developers embrace change; they get paid to write code. Operations embrace stability; they get paid to keep things running. Different motivations—yet both groups feel that they are doing what is right for the company. So how are enterprises supposed to align human resources that are inherently at odds?In this roundtable discussion, Brian Jawalka, Rackspace
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