February 23, 2012
OnLive Desktop Plus impressions: A Windows 7 desktop on your iPad, now with a browser (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - In January, video game streaming company OnLive decided to enter the remote desktop space with âOnLive Desktop.â The service allows anyone with an iPad (and soon Android or any other computing platform) to access a Windows 7 desktop in the cloud and use it much like any...
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February 22, 2012
Understanding Disaster Recovery and High Availability
Whether you use the cloud or dedicated servers, you should always make sure you have a plan for your configuration in the event that something goes wrong. This is the first in a series of posts based on a discussion I had with Aaron Scheel, a solutions engineer here at Rackspace.
People use the...
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Iron.io Gives App Developers Agility, Scalability Boost
This is a guest post written and contributed by Travis Reeder , Co-Founder and CTO of Iron . io , a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. Iron.io provides hosted messaging and background processing services for developers who want to spend less...
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Restore24™ – Worry Free Recovery
INetU offers a new backup solution! Restore24, a full-service solution provided by INetU, delivers nothing less than peace of mind. Restore24 eliminates your risk of losing important information. We’ll keep your data safe so if disaster strikes, your system will be up and running much faster,...
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Hey Developers! Test Drive OpenStack For Free With TryStack
What to give OpenStack a try? You know you do. So go for it.
A handful of OpenStack community members have launched TryStack, a free OpenStack sandbox for developers to explore, test and play around with their apps on the OpenStack open source cloud operating system. Rackspace, Dell, HP and NTT...
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Cloud computing report slams Brazil, India, China (Reuters)
Reuters - A U.S. software industry report on Wednesday chided Brazil, China and India for policies it said threatened the future of cloud computing, but also took aim at developed countries such as Germany that did well on its inaugural scorecard.
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February 21, 2012
Storage Systems Overview
Storage requirements are getting huge. Data is incredibly sticky: it doesn’t move or ever get smaller. These two realities make your choice of a storage system vitally important. However, there is no storage system that provides a single solution for all use cases. You must pair the right use...
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Taser’s Latest Police Weapon: The Tiny Camera and the Cloud
A new camera that clips to a collar or sunglasses can record two hours of video, which could provide evidence in controversies over police officers’ use of force.
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That Old Cloud Cost Chestnut Again…
CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s...
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February 17, 2012
Rackspace, Redapt Partner For Private Cloud Powered By OpenStack
Rackspace and Redapt have locked arms to deliver a fully packaged, turnkey private OpenStack cloud supported by Rackspace.
Through the pairing, solution provider Redapt will offer Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition as a soup-to-nuts cloud infrastructure and support offering that makes it easier for...
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