Mosso Cloud Journal

With the advent of Cloud Computing, the cost of computation, application hosting and content storage and delivery is plunging fast by several orders of magnitude. Behind all the buzzwords, a basic shift is occurring - the wholesale outsourcing of core business applications. This is why many analysts and industry-watchers believe that Cloud Computing is changing not just the technology landscape but also the entire nature of the business models that underpin successful software and hardware companies. SYS-CON Events offered all delegates at the 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo 2008 West in San Jose, CA, the opportunity to cast their vote for their favorite cloud computing technology provider in five highly competitive categories. The results have been announced, and they are as follows: Best Overall Cloud Product Winner: VMware Infrastructure ESX - V... (more)

Rackspace Announces Full Suite of Cloud Hosting Offers

Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leading hosting services provider, today unveiled its cloud hosting strategy which extends the company’s technology and service leadership to cloud hosting. In support of its new cloud hosting strategy, the company announced it has agreed to acquire Slicehost and Jungle Disk, and has established relationships with Limelight Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLNW) and Sonian Networks to provide more robust service offerings. Today’s announcement will be made at a customer event hosted at the Austin City Limits stage which can be viewed via live ... (more)

Mosso’s Load-and-Go Platform - Cloud Sites

Create a new Mosso-powered site - and even add some email accounts - in less than five minutes with Cloud Sites. Load-Balancing, clustering, and redundant storage are all inherited by applications automatically. From the first byte served, sites are hosted on advanced clustered technology designed for high-traffic, high-performance websites. When the site grows bigger than what's included, customers pay inexpensive scale pricing for exactly what is used and nothing more. Scale Your Bandwidth Starts at 500GB/mo. As much as you need for 25¢ per GB Scale Your SAN Storage Starts at 5... (more)

Rackspace Cloud: High Density, Virtualization-packed Data Centers in EMEA

London – September 11, 2008 – Rackspace® Hosting the world’s leader in hosting, today announces enterprise-class support of dedicated virtualised servers as part of its ongoing virtualisation initiative in EMEA. The virtualisation platform, built on VMware’s third-generation virtualisation software suite, maximises hardware investment with better utilisation of servers through virtual machines. The virtualisation platform will enable businesses that experience high growth or fluctuations in capacity to quickly meet these demands, by making scaling easier through rapid Virtual M... (more)

Rackspace Hosting Holds Webcast to Discuss the Cloud Computing and What's Next

Rackspace Hosting and its cloud hosting division, Mosso, will hold a customer event and live webcast including Q&A entitled ‘Live and Unplugged: A Conversation with Rackspace Cloud Hosting and What's Coming.' The webcast and event will offer attendees the opportunity to hear corporate and product announcements from the company's managed and cloud hosting businesses about the future of the hosting cloud. Rackspace Cloud Hosting solutions are creating competitive advantages for companies and developers. For Webcast log in information please visit www.rackspacecloudevent.com. ... (more)