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Rackspace’s contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary players like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), according to some observers. OpenStack, which was announced Monday, will include the code behind Rackspace’s Cloud... 

A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday. See original here: Rackspace hires to align with MySQL offshoot  Read More →

In a letter to customers, Rackspace apologizes for cloud service outage and promises to do better in the future. More: Rackspace apologizes for cloud outage, prepares to issue service credits  Read More →

The Centers for Disease Control have settled on a private, nationwide database with the electronic medical records of 14 million people run by General Electric in order to track potential outbreaks of the H1N1 virus. Originally posted here:  CDC adopts new, near real-time flu tracking system  Read More →

Cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace on Tuesday announced a new portal that will help showcase and organize tools and applications built by its partners and independent developers. Excerpt from: Rackspace debuts ‘Cloud Tools’ portal  Read More →

Appirio, a company known for helping companies adopt cloud-based software, is launching a SaaS (software as a service) application for large services providers. Originally posted here: Appirio aims new SaaS app at large services businesses  Read More →