How Rackspace NAILED strategy by enabling the competition

Posted on 19. Aug, 2011 by Ed Byrne.

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I’ve long been an admirer of Rackspace – the quality of service delivery, focus on the customer, and seemingly great organisation culture; even when I was in competition, Rackspace was a company you WANTED to be compared to – they were the gold standard for managed hosting. Then AWS (Amazon’s Web Services division) came along, [...]

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GovCloud Ireland Proposal

Posted on 18. Aug, 2011 by Ed Byrne.

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Amazon Web Services announced that they have built a version of their Cloud Computing platform specifically for the US government. This makes a lot of sense – government agencies are both hugely security conscious about their data (rightly so) and also heavily controlled in terms of how they engage with outsourcing providers. The Irish government [...]

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Strong Hosting Growth in Ireland due to Amazon EC2 Ireland is…

Posted on 15. Feb, 2011 by Ed Byrne's Notes.

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Strong Hosting Growth in Ireland due to Amazon EC2
Ireland is winning as the premier location in Europe for Cloud Computing. While Ireland has always been a key location for data centres, the country has not been a market leader in the sector.
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State of the Cloud – January 2011 :: Jack of all Clouds :: Guy…

Posted on 04. Feb, 2011 by Ed Byrne's Notes.

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State of the Cloud – January 2011 :: Jack of all Clouds :: Guy Rosen on Cloud Computing
Is it real? Rackspace have caught up on Amazon? Does this mean soon they will surpass AWS? Hard to believe with the pace of innovation and the coverage AWS get fo…

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List of Cloud Computing iPhones Apps

Posted on 24. Dec, 2010 by Ed Byrne's Notes.

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If you’re looking for a way to manage you’re Cloud Computing this Christmas, here’s a pretty comprehensive list of all the apps from generic monitoring to providers own. You can find them all in the iTunes App Store (I didn’t take the time to l…

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