Posts Tagged ‘rackspacecloud’

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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OSCON 2010 Keynote

Monday, July 26th, 2010

What a great conference last week.  Lew Moorman opened the keynote, Toward an Open Cloud, at OSCON 2010.  He mainly talked the whole time about how Rackspace got started and  has succeeded through the years, taking standard based technologies and making them into great services.  He talked a ton about OpenStack, the new RackspaceCloud open source cloud hosting platform and it’s commitment in 4 opens: open design, open development, open community and open source.

Check out the video:

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Rackspace Cloud Hosting in UK

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Rackspace Hosting Inc. hopes to become the U.K.’s first major cloud server provider , according to officials who said the company will expand there before the end of the year.

“Our public cloud business grew nearly 125 percent in 2009,” said Rackspace CEO and President Lanham Napier, who was recently named one of “America’s 15 Most Powerful CEOs 40 and Under” by Forbes magazine. “We believe the opportunity in front of us is massive and we have a range of services in development that will be attractive to customers and provide new choices to the market.”

Napier said he expects Rackspace to be one of the first of the major players to intall public cloud infrastructure in the across the pond. Cloud hosting allows companies to store Web content and applications on remote servers.

UK Cloud Hosting Story

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