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Rackspace Buys Cloudkik

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Large hosting and cloud hosting company Rackspace has aquired Cloudkick for an undisclosed amount of money. Cloudkick, which opened it’s doors in early 2009, helps to provide detailed graphs on your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing.  This should help the cloud server giant know a little better what is going on with your servers.

Cloudkick has a little over 1,500 businesses that it helps, from Fortune 500 enterprises to small start-ups.  Cloudkick has helped more than 1 million servers know a little better what is going on.

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XyberSecure Cloud Server Tools

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
XyberSecure has joined Rackspace Hosting’s Cloud Tools Program to provide XyberSecure’s XyberShield, a behavior based, real time web application security software as a service (SaaS).  This will help cloud hosting customers meet mandatory PCI-DSS and web security requirements at Rackspace Cloud.

“We are excited to have XyberSecure develop on top of The Rackspace Cloud and offer XyberShield through the Rackspace Cloud Tools Program,” said Nishan Sivathasan, director of corporate development for Rackspace. “XyberSecure’s XyberShield helps to enable its users to implement security applications to meet compliance policies and protect their environments, which we think is a great tool to make available to cloud customers.”

“For the past several years, our Fortune 500 customers have relied on us for the latest in web application protection,” said Rick Maharaj, XyberSecure’s Chief Technology Officer. “Many of our current users utilize shopping carts within their websites and need to meet PCI-DSS 6.6 compliance. Others just require real-time protection from the most common cyber-attacks. With our service available through the Rackspace Cloud Tools program, all Rackspace customers can quickly set up our robust security system to protect their web applications.”

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Red Hat License Fee for Rackspace Cloud Servers

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Rackspace Cloud Servers customers will now be billed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) instances on a monthly rather than hourly basis.    Due to changes in the Rackspace cloud server subscription arrangement with Red Hat, they can no longer offer Cloud customers hourly billing for RHEL licenses.  Rackspace will begin charging our customers a monthly licensing fee, starting in September. This license fee will not be prorated.

What this means for Rackspace Cloud Servers customers using RHEL:

  • Instead of being billed for your RHEL license on an hourly basis, customers using Red Hat will be billed on a monthly basis (30 day billing cycle).  The Cloud Server will continue to be billed on a utility basis.
  • The new fee for RHEL will be $20 per month per server, which is an average savings of $1.60 per month for each server for a full month’s usage. This fee replaces the $.03/hour fee per server using Red Hat that is currently in place.
  • Every Cloud Server that you spin up with RHEL will be subject to a full month’s license fee, no matter how long you use it. If a Cloud Server with RH
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