Rackspace, the Texas-headquartered cloud computing company, announced last week it was deploying 22,000 of Cisco’s Next-Generation Firewalls to integrate into their existing services, helping its customers better manage their hosted environments with greater security and efficiency. Organizations are increasingly turning
Nginx Plus vs. F5 Big IP and Citrix Net Scaler Nginx has posted two cost-benefit analyses of its Nginx Plus versus other hardware application delivery controllers (ADC), namely F5 Big IP and Citrix Net Scaler. Unsurprisingly, it found that Nginx
Back in early 2013, the COO of VMWare once said the following about Amazon “I find it really hard to believe that we cannot collectively beat a company that sells books”. Well, it wasn’t a happy ending for the COO
According to various reports, Rackspace was hit with a DDoS attack on its DNS services that impacted its domains, along with customer websites. Their service was fully restored after 12 hours. The attack occurred against 3 data centers: Northern Virginia,
Rackspace offers a robust suite of cloud services, including compute, storage, application and database hosting, load balancing, Colo, DNS, and a few more. They offer some of the products that Amazon and Microsoft offer, and all of the products that
Once upon a time, Rackspace was the leader in hosting and manage services. In 2013, they earned $1.53B in revenue, up from $1.3B in 2012, and $1B in 2011. Regardless of their revenue growth, Rackspace stock sank almost 50% in
