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

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 >

Networking and Cloud Servers – Shared IP Groups

// March 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Cloud Servers

By Nicolas Keller, Cloud Architect

In my previous post,  I indicated that one could allocate more than one address on the Public interface and could then use this to create virtual IP’s. Let me explain what this means by providing an example:

Let’s say I am building a large web farm, putting a load balancer in front of a few web heads to serve my web site. Eliminating single point of failures within the web head layer is easy; I just need … Read More >

Revinate Launches Hotel Social Media Platform on the Cloud

// March 2nd, 2010 // No Comments » // Customer Stories

By Dominic Smith, Technical Writer

In an era of exploding content, companies are scrambling to work out how to gather and understand customer feedback. In a perfect world, everyone fills out their satisfaction survey card at the hotel front desk or at the restaurant table, but the truth is that most reviews are posted on third-party websites. How does a luxury hotel, for example, track what their recent guests are saying online about the hotel’s service? Rackspace Cloud customer Revinate … Read More >