Zdnet : The updates to Rackspace’s distribution of the open source cloud management system OpenStack brings features from the latest distribution of the software to the hoster's supported distribution.
Ars: The San Antonio hosting company Rackspace is one of a few companies that has taken a tough position on software patents, stating clearly that the world would be better off without them. Today, the company filed suit against IP Nav, a patent-assertion company that Rackspace is boldly calling "the most notorious patent troll in America."
PC World - It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west.
There is such a variety of vendors gunning at one another and the industry is young enough that true winners and losers have not yet been determined. Amazon has established itself as the early market leader, but big-name legacy IT companies are competing hard, especially on the enterprise side, and a budding crop of startups are looking to stake their claims, too.
Ars Technica: "A group of cloud computing stakeholders have announced a new project called OpenStack, which aims to produce a standard open source cloud computing software stack. It will allow adopters to host their own elastic computing clouds and scalable storage grids. Key participants include hosting company Rackspace and NASA."
