Angela Bartels on July 27, 2010 |
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GameTable Online (GTO) is an online game site featuring web versions of popular, real-world tabletop games, based in Northampton, Mass. GTO’s specialty is turn-based strategy games—and the site makes them look and feel like the real thing.
While users enjoy getting to play both free and premium games, game creators and manufacturers benefit from exposing a new generation to classic offline games, like Axis and Allies. And the audience for these games is big—more than 11,000 games of Axis and Allies have been played so far this month. GTO’s audience is highly motivated, and it turns out that their online behavior affects their offline purchases—a survey ...
Angela Bartels on July 26, 2010 |
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Lew Moorman did a keynote, Toward an Open Cloud, at OSCON 2010 in Portland, Oregon last week. It was a big week for Rackspace as we announced OpenStack which Lew discusses further in his presentation. He highlights how Rackspace got started and has succeeded through the years which is by taking standard based technologies and making them into great services. We have progressed with our cloud computing development, serving over 100,000 customers, and we're now committed to opening our cloud technologies to the world. We think this is the best way to bring services to our customers. He talks about our OpenStack commitment in 4 ...
Angela Bartels on July 23, 2010 |
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We've talked about Standing Cloud, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner, and you may have heard about them on TechCrunch. Standing Cloud allows you to easily deploy and manage open source applications on Rackspace Cloud Servers in minutes! Most IT professionals use cloud computing to get their configuration online quickly - Standing Cloud takes it to the next level. They are taking the headaches out of learning how to configure a series of open source applications and have turned it into a simple 3 click process for you.
Standing Cloud currently supports over 50 open source applications, including all the usual favorites such as Wordpress, Drupal, and ...
Blake Yeager on July 22, 2010 |
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Blake Yeager is the Product Manager for Rackspace Cloud Servers.
It’s been a few months since we announced the Beta release of our Cloud Servers for Windows offering and we’d like to provide you with an update on the progress we’ve made. With the feedback received from our customers using Cloud Servers for Windows Beta, we’ve been hard at work completing some of the most requested functionality that was not initially released with the Beta and have been carefully monitoring performance and stability.
Rescue Mode
We launched the Rescue Mode feature two weeks ago, which you may have noticed. Rescue Mode allows you to mount the drive ...
Lew Moorman on July 19, 2010 |
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Imagine a world where code used by the biggest clouds is freely available to any developer, anywhere. A world where that code was a standard used to build private clouds as well as a variety of new service offers. In this world, workloads could be moved around these clouds easily - you could fire your cloud provider for bad service or lack of features, but not have to rewrite the software to do it. Imagine an open source cloud operating system that lifts IT to the next level of innovation, just as Linux drove the web to new heights.
Today, we at Rackspace launched an ambitious ...
