Manage What People Are Saying About Your Brand With Tweetlytics

// March 26th, 2010 // 3 Comments » // Cloud Servers, Cloud Sites, Customer Stories

Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven

Many businesses, including the Rackspace Cloud, utilize social media outlets to engage in conversations with their customers. There was a time when businesses questioned whether they should use social media or not. We have surpassed that discussion. We have even surpassed the discussion on what social media tools you should be using. The question now is: how do we measure the chatter?  It’s not about the number of followers you have, rather, it’s about how many … Read More >

Easily Deploy & Manage Open Source Applications with Standing Cloud

// March 25th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Announcements, Cloud Tools

Standing Cloud Joins the Rackspace Cloud Tools Ecosystem
by Guest Author Dave Jilk, CEO of Standing Cloud Inc.

For a professional system administrator, it is not too much trouble to set up an open source application using a Rackspace Cloud server.  To install a LAMP application, for example, you would first use the Rackspace console to start a new server.  Everything else is the same as with a physical server: install the LAMP stack, download and install the application … Read More >

Oracle Now Offered On Cloud Servers

// March 24th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Announcements, Cloud Servers

Here at The Rackspace Cloud, we are committed to providing our customers a wide variety of options when building their online presence on our cloud computing platform. In line with this commitment, we are pleased to announce the addition of Oracle images to our rich set of operating system offerings. Our customers now have a greater OS selection to choose from including Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Gentoo and now Oracle. We believe offering Oracle will help Enterprise businesses confirm … Read More >

Drizzle Developer Day 2010 – Sign Up Now!

// March 23rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Announcements, Community, Development, Events

If you are a database enthusiast either managing and administering databases,  developing database code or just have a general interest in databases then you’ll want to join us for Drizzle Developer Day 2010.

This is a great opportunity to discuss and brainstorm topics of interest and hopefully solve problems with other fellow community members and developers. You can also contribute to the discussion by submitting your topics of interest here:
https://drizzle.org/wiki/Drizzle_Developer_Day_2010

Here are the details:

What: Drizzle Developer Day 2010
When: Friday, April 16th 9:30am … Read More >

Kids Cancer Foundation of South Florida On The Rackspace Cloud

// March 19th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Customer Stories

Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven

“According to the Florida Association of Pediatric Tumor Programs (FAPTP), the third largest percentage of all children diagnosed with cancer in the state of Florida resides in Palm Beach County and yet we have no cancer outpatient treatment center for them.”

This is a startling statistic I came across on KidsCancerSF.org, hosted on the Rackspace Cloud. The Kids Cancer Foundation of South Florida is a local 501(c)(3) charity that raises funding to provide supportive care services to … Read More >