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 [...]

A comment from Chris of Cohesiveft, reminded me that an update is due on London CloudCamp. The notional October meeting is now actually happening in November, details here. It kicks off at 6pm with drinks and registration, followed by a series of lightening talks, then 3 ‘open spaces’ discussions. Expect a who’s who of the UK [...]

VMWare are very much on the radar at the moment. I’d be following them more closely, but the RSS feed on their website is seriously broken. VMWare put virtualization on the map, and as I digest the input from Interop in New York, and last week’s VMworld 2008, it feels like they are all over the map. [...]

Tech Replublic has the “First Look: 2Go Classmate PC laptop“. I’m not suggesting anyone would use this for business, but it shows how the ultra portable PC market is growing right now. Call them Ultra-mobiles, UMPCs or Netbooks, the fact is they are almost more of a buzz that a certain vendor with a logo like [...]

I don’t often put a “?” and a “!” in a post title, but today deserves it, mostly because of this post on WebGuild. I like the thinking (shown in a nice diagram) that makes a continuum from on premise to SaaS (Software as a service, not a misspelling of the airline). Licensing runs from traditional perpetual [...]