Cloud Computing with WebLogic Suite at Rackspace

// November 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // Community, Events

Interview with Lew Moorman, President of Cloud, Jim Curry, VP of Corporate Development and Mark Collier, VP of Business Development at the recent Oracle OpenWorld 2009. They talk about Cloud Computing, Hybrid Hosting and WebLogic Suite.

How Cloud Computing is Driving the Next Wave of Productivity

// November 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // In the news

Lew Moorman, President of Cloud, recently wrote an article that appeared in News Week Japan, “How Cloud Computing is Driving the Next Wave of Productivity.”

He discusses how cloud computing is certainly a trend that is gaining traction but there is some concrete reasoning behind it.

“The movement of IT hardware and software out of offices and factories and onto the web promises to deliver huge cost savings, create new business models, and threaten incumbent technologies and the global corporations that deliver … Read More >

Cybernautic Launches High Traffic Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Site on the Cloud

// October 29th, 2009 // No Comments » // Community, In the news

Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven

In a previous post, we announced that Rackspace Cloud Customer, Cybernautic was selected to lead the Brady Homes web project for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition which aired this past Sunday, October 25th on ABC. Senior Producers of the show told Chad Parker, CEO and President of Cybernautic, it was inevitable the website will go down once the show aired.

The show aired and ExtremeBradyHomes.com performed flawlessly, serving millions of visitors continuously throughout the life of the project … Read More >

How do you put a Database in the Cloud?

// October 28th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Development

By Jonathan Bryce, Founder

There’s a lot of buzz in the cloud world around Amazon’s new Relational Database Service. With this move, Amazon inches up one level from pure infrastructure to also owning the operating system and base server software (you can’t SSH into an RDS EC2 instance). More interesting than the announcement itself is the discussion it’s generated, a frequent question being, “Is it really cloud?”

  Techcrunch provides coverage and an intelligent discussion in the comments.

Rightscale makes the point that … Read More >

Halloween brings a 300% Web Traffic Increase for Costumes4Less.com

// October 27th, 2009 // No Comments » // Community

Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven

It’s that time of the year again - jack o lanterns, haunted houses and gooey candy.  It’s Halloween! And what’s the most important part of Halloween? Costumes of course. It’s the only time of the year when you get to put your favorite Star Wars or Star Trek outfit on…well, maybe not the only time of the year.

If you do a search for “Halloween Costumes” right now, Costumes4less.com will show up on your first search engine … Read More >