Rackspace Hosting has significantly expanded its cloud computing offering with the acquisition of two companies and the inking of two new partnership deals. These moves have fundamentally reshaped Rackspace’s cloud computing capabilities, prompting the company to rebrand its existing hosting and storage services. Slicehost and Jungle Disk, the two companies Rackspace acquired, are providing on-demand virtualized servers and online storage software and services, respectively, to Rackspace’s cloud computing offering.
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Rackspace Ratchets Up Cloud Computing Competition
Posted by: Erika Morphy October 23, 2008 01:51 PMRackspace Hosting has significantly expanded its cloud computing offering with the acquisition of two companies and the inking of two new partnership deals. These moves have fundamentally reshaped Rackspace’s cloud computing capabilities, prompting the company to rebrand its existing hosting and storage services. Slicehost and Jungle Disk, the two companies Rackspace acquired, are providing on-demand virtualized servers and online storage software and services, respectively, to Rackspace’s cloud computing offering.