Counting down the top cloud computing vendors of 2013
December 5, 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Editorial Staff.
Rackspace is a familiar name on lists of top cloud computing providers, but that doesn’t mean that the company is content in its place. Listening to the needs of its customers, Rackspace Inc. had made moves this year to enhance its public cloud’s performance and features to better compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
In the company’s second quarter of 2013, Rackspace’s public cloud business reportedly grew by 36.4% to $99 million — tripling its revenue growth for its dedicated hosting business. "Recently, [Rackspace] has really started to step up their game building out other cloud services," said Aaron Rankin, chief technology officer of Chicago-based Sprout Social Inc., which mostly uses Rackspace, though it has some AWS components…
Rankin also noted that he’s seen a theme of Rackspace’s CEO starting to focus on performance. "It’s clear that they’re really starting to compete with Amazon on their products and not just on their level of ‘fanatical’ service." Rackspace is also steering customers toward a hybrid IT model, particularly with its launch of a dedicated VMware vCenter Server. This approach drew Sprout Social toward Rackspace…
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