The cloud warning label and avoiding the dark side

January 23, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from Vator.TV. Author: Graham Turney.

A startup founder faces a wealth of decisions every day that can profoundly affect the fate of his or her business. One such decision is choosing where to host a site or application. Until recently, that choice often appeared to be among several near identical infrastructure providers. As the cloud has matured, however, the industry has begun to recognize two broad categories in the cloud — managed and unmanaged vendors.

According to Gartner, Rackspace is the leader in the managed space. In a recent blog (included below), our CEO, Taylor Rhodes, outlined the differences between managed and unmanaged clouds and the ramifications of those differences for your business. Here’s what he outlined:…

Cloud computing is an ever-more powerful business tool, when properly managed. But the unmanaged clouds that most vendors are selling come with a dark side that is seldom disclosed. If they were consumer appliances or prescription drugs, these clouds would be tagged with a list of warnings that would read something like this:…

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