Rackspace launched its OpenStack open source cloud computing platform earlier this year to a great deal of fanfare and whispers that it could represent a major shift in the cloud computing landscape.

Rackspace's move to the 2-year-old OpenStack cloud platform is poised to commence Aug. 1 and the transition is being closely watched as it'll affect everything from customer service to earnings to the ...

Rackspace and NASA have paired to deliver an open-source cloud computing platform, dubbed OpenStack, and cloud providers and partners are pumped for the possibility of more open cloud computing and ...

In what will be one of the first large scale OpenStack commercial deployments, hosting company Rackspace is moving its server and other hosting services to the OpenStack API (application programming ...

The co-creator of OpenStack will be certified by Red Hat as a provider of management services for OpenStack deployments based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In the latest stage of its transformation ...

Rackspace was one of the founders of the OpenStack cloud computing platform project (together with NASA) and the company has long offered enterprises the option to manage their private OpenStack ...

News of Rackspace hiring Morgan Stanley to explore options sent the stock skyrocketing. What its bet on OpenStack says about potential suitors. The shift also comes at an interesting time. A recent ...

Rackspace Inc. has teamed up with Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. to add another Openstack-as-a-Service offering to its lineup. Rackspace Private Cloud powered by Red Hat is essentially Red Hat’s Enterprise ...

Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as telecommunication companies. “We’re getting into ...

Rackspace and HP have each brought major portions of their cloud offerings based on the OpenStack code out of beta and into general availability today. Backers of the open source project call the ...

Although OpenStack can help enterprises in a multitude of ways, there are some companies who are still wary of the migration. Is it functional? What sort of cloud do we use? These are the questions to ...

Rackspace cooked up OpenStack---a cloud operating system---with NASA and has been among its largest evangelists as 125 companies have joined the movement. One large question for me has always revolved ...