Cloud Server Performance Monitoring – It’s Not Just About Raw Data Any More

// March 10th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Cloud Servers, Cloud Tools

by Paul Ford, Rackspace Corporate Development

There are a number of different tools that are essential for monitoring your server infrastructure. These include services like Pingdom, an external tool that alerts you when your website or service is down, and internal tools like Scout that monitor resource usage – covered previously here on the Rackspace Cloud Blog.

These tools are excellent at providing you with the essential data you need when you have server problems, and triggering alerts based on it.  … Read More >

Introducing ProServe In The Cloud

// March 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Announcements

Robert Collazo, Professional Services

Many businesses, small and large, are testing out our suite of cloud computing products. We see clients moving their entire environment or part of it to the Cloud from dedicated hardware or even from other Cloud environments. As businesses make the decision to move to our Cloud, they are tasked with migrating their data, optimizing their applications for our Cloud or simply figure out how to marry their classic hosting architecture with a Cloud environment, creating hybrid … Read More >

The Rackspace Cloud On The Road – March

// March 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Events

Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven

We’re in full swing for 2010, building the Cloud and making it better for the masses. We’ll be on the road evangelizing the Cloud and would love to meet you. We’ll be at NoSQL in Boston this week and at SXSW and Cloud Connect next week. From the East Coast to the West Coast and Central Texas, there’s bound to be an opportunity to meet a Cloud Racker! Here’s a list of events. Hope to see … Read More >

Tech Cloud Cast, Episode 2

// March 5th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Community, Podcasts/Videocasts

Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven

We recorded Tech Cloud Cast, Episode 2, last week with Major Hayden and Robert Collazo. In addition to the audio, we did a video, embedded below.

In this episode, we cover:

1- How is data stored for Cloud Servers?
2- How can you secure your private interface?
3 -What is Deploy-itron? (http://deploy.collazo.ws/)
4- Intro to Professional Services

Thanks to all that submitted your questions. We hope that you find this information useful. We’ll be recording Tech Cloud Cast, Episode 3,  in a … Read More >

iPad App Development – Behind The Scenes

// March 4th, 2010 // 7 Comments » // Cloud Tools, Development

By Mike Mayo, Cloud Developer

Since January 27, I’ve been hard at work building the Rackspace Cloud iPad App.  In a sense, it’s a port of the iPhone App, but I don’t like to call it a port because it will ultimately offer much more than what was reasonable to offer on the iPhone.  I’m extremely excited about the eventual final product and about the ultimate user interface potential of the iPad.  I’d say more, but Joe Hewitt sums up … Read More >