Rackspace reveals the strategy behind its ‘open cloud’ vision
January 17, 2013
Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Christina Farr.
Cloud computing giant Rackspace has announced plans to partner up with the leading providers of open source data centers. As a founding member of the Open Compute Project, the company’s goal is to make it cheaper and more energy efficient to power the world’s Internet.
Facebook launched the initiative in April 2011 as a pledge to share custom data center designs, and scale computing infrastructure in the most efficient and economical way possible. At the fourth Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, Calif. today, executives at companies like Facebook, Intel, and Rackspace pooled together their knowledge and resources. They also announced hardware designs, new jobs, and upcoming partnerships…
“Rackspace will support those companies and organizations that share our vision for an open cloud,” said COO, Mark Roenigk. In an email statement, he stressed that the San Antonio, Tx.-based competitor to Amazon Web Services is “committed” to supporting the efforts of “like-minded companies who are dedicated to open standards.”…
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