Rackspace (UK site here) has been in the news, and rattling around the blogosphere a fair amount these last few weeks. Not just because they are the top dedicated hosting provider (see Gartner report), but because of their recent adventures:   Acquired on-line storage company Jungle Disk. Acquired specialist hoster Slicehost. (see Rich Miller’s post) Struck a CDN [...]

It seems an apt question for the current times. Some businesses have fully embraced opensource, others have steered well clear of it. The pros and cons have been hotly contested, usually by people with an agenda, if not an axe to grind. Regardless of your historic stance, now is the right time to be looking at how [...]

As far as the network is concerned, F5 Networks have become part of the furniture for most hosting providers, and I mean that in a good way. Load balancing across multiple servers has progressed a long way since the early days of Cisco’s Local Director, and Checkpoint’s early load balancing capabilities. F5 have evolved too. A number [...]

This week finds me in Storage Expo, held at London’s Olympia. With compliance issues, data retention legislation, and data discovery all swirling around the IT press over the last year, it is hardly a surprise that the who’s who of the IT industry is here. Despite what you read about IT cutbacks, the floors are packed [...]

It’s is fair to describe CRM as mainstream these days. It doesn’t take much convincing to get business managers and the sales team to see the value of tracking customer interactions. Salesforce.com transformed the industry with their SaaS model (software as a service), but whilst they have wandered off to the shiny new pastures of [...]