Rackspace deploys over 22,000 Cisco firewalls
Rackspace is making Cisco's next-generation firewalls available to customers who need to secure multi-cloud environments.
Cisco and Rackspace’s partnership stretches back nearly 20 years, with Rackspace being recognized as one of Cisco's largest firewall customers. As Cisco’s testing partner, Rackspace...
HPE and Rackspace bring pay-as-you-go service to OpenStack Private Cloud
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Rackspace announced they have partnered to provide OpenStack Private Cloud as a pay-as-you-go service. According to the companies, this is the industry’s first pay-as-you-go OpenStack private cloud.
“The launch of OpenStack...
1. Google parent Alphabet is reportedly losing patience with Google Fiber, or Access as the business unit is known inside the company. A report in The Information claims that Alphabet CEO Larry Page has ordered a 50% reduction in Google Fiber's headcount, which currently...
Cloud-as-a-service trades capital hardware, software and licensing costs into an operating expense
Faced with the ever-increasing need to cut costs and boost revenues, many enterprises are turning to digitalization strategies focused on using cloud computing platforms and attendant data analytics functions to gain efficiency and...
In infrastructure news this week, Sprint's spending is in the spotlight, Verizon's towers may be for sale, Alcatel-Lucent has a major new contract, and Rackspace is going it alone.
Infrastructure News
Sprint spending outlook
Sprint will focus the deployment of its 2.5 GHz spectrum assets in urban...
Rackspace is managing the cloud and managing to grow, despite competition and price cuts from the mobile Internet's heaviest hitters. Google slashed prices of its cloud services this spring, but despite that the much smaller Rackspace sold $441 million worth of cloud services, a 17%...
