Amazon CloudFront vs. Rackspace CloudFiles CDN Performance

// October 23rd, 2009 // 9 Comments » // Community, Development

Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven

It’s not enough for us to tell you why you should use our services. We believe that it is more powerful when you hear real stories from customers on how they are utilizing our cloud computing platform. It’s even better when customers are not only using us but also trying out another provider so they can do a comparable analysis. This is the cool stuff.

Chris Meller, an Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Servers customer, chose Amazon … Read More >

Store your SharePoint Data to Cloud Files

// October 22nd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Community

Rackspace partner, AvePoint, announced that its DocAve software platform will fully support the delivery of its SharePoint backup and archiving files directly to our Cloud Files platform.

Once you download their software and setup a Cloud Files account – all you have to do is configure Cloud Files as a data repository in the DocAve Manager.  After that, data is seamlessly transferred to the Rackspace Cloud but still managed and accessed from SharePoint.

Below are two videos. One that shows a farm … Read More >

Security Series: 3 Tips on How to Prevent an Attack on the User Environment

// October 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // Development

By Chad Wilson, Security Engineer

Securing your development and deployment environment is equally as important as securing your web server. Over the past few years, the attack vector has shifted away from attacking and compromising servers and is now focused heavily on client side vulnerabilities via code injection and cross-site scripting tactics.

This post serves to provide awareness and recommend actions that can be taken to prevent the outcome of the scenario attack as seen below.

Scenario of an Attack on the User … Read More >

Fifteen Year Old Launches App of the Day on The Rackspace Cloud

// October 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // Community

Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven

Launched over the weekend, App of the Day was featured on TechCrunch, The Washington Post and LifeHacker for it’s simple set up and highly needed platform in the iPhone App world.

The iPhone API has allowed developers to get creative and develop apps that fulfill all sorts of needs, which gives you tens of thousands of apps to choose from. I just did a search on my iPhone for “WorkOut” and received a selection of over 100 … Read More >

Joining the Cloud Security Alliance

// October 16th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Community

By Josh Zachry, Systems Security

The Rackspace Cloud formally joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) in September 2009 as a Corporate Member and Solutions Provider Advisory Council Member. Participation in the CSA will further expand and support the Rackspace Cloud’s vision of creating an Open Cloud. As a member on the Solutions Provider Advisory Council, The Rackspace Cloud will provide guidance and recommendations on strategic initiatives undertaken by the CSA and participating organizations. We believe engaging with … Read More >