GigaOM:
With Azure, Microsoft is trying to strike a balance between giving customers the ease of a platform as a service and the customization that power users need to build tailored applications — both in-house and in the public Az (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Norwest Venture Partners has has raised a new venture fund of $1.2 billion — the eleventh fund in the firm’s history, and its largest.Managing partner Promod Haque says the new money will help the firm expand — in terms of ge (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
When you launch a make or break initiative like Windows Azure, you better get it right.Well, from our vantage point, Microsoft got it right. How? In front of a sea of developers at the Professional Developers Conference, Micr (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Rackspace is launching a new service called "Cloud Drive," that allows businesses to store, share and back up files in the Rackspace cloud.Rackspace is one of the world's largest hosting companies but with more services being (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Rackspace says the company has closed the gap with Amazon, gaining significant market share in its cloud computing compared to a year ago. In an interview with Reuters,Chief Executive Lanham Napier said a year ago Amazon was (Read More)
Tech Blog:
On this Friday’s FT techtalk, we’ll be joined by Robert Scoble, one of the best known tech bloggers and social media evangelists.Robert has more than 50,000 subscribers on Friendfeed and 100,000 plus followers on Twitter. He (Read More)
FOXBusiness.com:
Shares of Rackspace fell after the stock rose above $19 a share after reporting positive Q3 earnings and receiving two analyst upgrades. (Read More)
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online:
Rackspace (RAX) this morning is getting a lift from a pair of analyst upgrades one day after the Web hosting company posted Q3 results, sending the stock higher and reversing an after-hours drop last night.Oppenheimer analyst (Read More)
BloggingStocks:
Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Analyst initiationsAnalyst upgrades: Janney Montgomery upgraded Adobe (ADBE) to buy from neutral on expectations for a strong CS5 product cycle in 2010. The fi (Read More)
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online:
Rackspace Holdings (RAX) posted Q3 revenue of $162.4 million, up 17.4% year-over-year and 6.8% sequentially, and ahead of the Street at $159.1 million. The hosting and cloud-computing services provider reported diluted EPS of (Read More)
GigaOM:
T-Mobile service experienced a hiccup yesterday evening that left some 2 million users without service, and the usual rush of tweets and news stories followed the outage. On Monday night Rackspace, which provides managed hos (Read More)
VentureBeat:
If anyone can appreciate the quality of voice calls over the web done right, it’s gamers. That’s the bet that Blabbelon is making as it launches a free voice chat system for game fanatics. The service is based on Skype’s Silk (Read More)
The Inquisitr:
Rackspace’s increasingly popular Rackspace Cloud product suffered a major outage Monday night, taking down a range of popular sites and services.Sites reported to be down included Posterous (and by extension Robert Scoble), T (Read More)
GigaOM:
The innovation coming out of the cloud computing market has, in many ways, made infrastructure startups interesting to venture capitalists again. Despite our excitement over the potential of cloud computing to transform IT, h (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Nimsoftis launching a benchmarking service today for enterprise customers that will help them define and measure the actual costs of cloud computing and monitor the performance of IT infrastructure.The benchmarking service mo (Read More)
VentureBeat:
After announcing plans to create a new kind of online storage service in January, a startup called CTERA Networks is now unveiling its first products. It says those two devices, dubbed the CTERA CloudPlug and the CTERA 2000, (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Our mission at ReadWriteWeb is to explore the latest Web technology products and trends. We're fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So, once a week, we write a post about them; about who they are (Read More)
GigaOM:
Cloudera, a startup based in Burlingame, Calif., today announced the release of its first commercial product, Cloudera Desktop. It’s a graphical interface for managing Hadoop, the open-source framework that is catalyzing the (Read More)