13567434
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abartels writes
"Sometimes it’s easier to understand the benefits of one API versus another by detailing out the differences. Rackspace Cloud Servers and Amazon EC2 are credited to be the most widely used cloud computing providers and both have API’s, some similarities but mostly differences. This post exposes the details of both API's and how they differ."Link to Original Source
12353166
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abartels writes
"Cassandra has received a lot of attention and many people are evaluating it for their organization. Eric Evans, Cassandra Committer and Rackspace Developer, has recognized the shortcomings in the documentation explaining Cassandra. The problem is that Cassandra’s data model is different enough from traditional databases to readily cause confusion. In this article, Eric explains Cassandra by example, using the Twitter use case."Link to Original Source
11890526
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abartels writes
"Bret Piatt of Rackspace led a session at Cloud Connect last month in Santa Clara, The Future of Open Source in a Cloudy World. In this presentation, Bret covers the history of open source, how cloud computing benefits from open source, how open source is leading Cloud interoperability and how the Cloud needs mass adoption to succeed. Take a look and leave your thoughts and comments below."Link to Original Source
10416662
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abartels writes
"Rackspace has been a sponsor of the Drizzle project for the past year. Recently we hired a team of five developers (Lee Bieber, Eric Day, Monty Taylor, Jay Pipes, Stewart Smith) from Sun Microsystems who have been working on this project."Link to Original Source
10348756
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abartels writes
""It seems like there's been little but bad news and resignations coming from Oracle since it finally managed to close the deal on Sun. Finally, there's good news in that Drizzle seems to have a bright future ahead. It just isn't with Oracle but with the Rackspace Cloud.""Link to Original Source
10277794
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abartels writes
"Jay Pipes, Drizzle Developer, and other Drizzle developers have left Sun to join the Rackspace Cloud."Link to Original Source
10253022
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abartels writes
"The Drizzle team joins the Rackspace Cloud. Eric Day, Drizzle developer, talks about his move to Rackspace."Link to Original Source
10137370
submission
abartels writes
"Mike Mayo has been developing the iPad app for the Rackspace Cloud. He talks about his iPad app development experience thus far. He also discusses the key differences, from a code perspective, between the iPad SDK and the iPhone SDK and how it makes the development significantly different."Link to Original Source
9849536
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abartels writes
"The Rackspace Cloud launches Windows Beta for Cloud Servers the right way—and at half the cost of other cloud providers. Although we initially launched Cloud Servers offering a variety of Linux distributions, we are not new to building and supporting Microsoft solutions. About half of all Rackspace hosting customers use Windows everyday. If you need to do some Windows development testing, Rackspace Cloud Servers for Windows is a perfect platform for that."Link to Original Source
7876428
submission
abartels writes
"The Rackspace Cloud is proud to announce its partnership with FathomDB, a relational database-as-a-service. FathomDB is a service that will make the day-to-day operations of running a database much simpler, allowing you to focus on higher end tasks of your application. We see this as a product that will help push MySQL to do bigger and better things. It is one of the many useful services at our Rackspace Cloud Tools site."Link to Original Source
