Rackspace Sees All Companies Moving to the Hybrid Cloud
October 13, 2013
Grazed from SiliconHills. Author: Editorial Staff.
All of Rackspace’s customers will be hybrid cloud customers in the future, said Gerardo Dada, the company’s product marketing leader. San Antonio-based Rackspace, which calls itself the Open Cloud company and co-founded with NASA the Open Stack operating system, has seen its cloud computing business skyrocket in the past few years.
The cloud lets customers operate a “network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.” Rackspace faces competition in the hybrid cloud market from Amazon Web Services, the number one leader, and other players such as Microsoft, HP Cloud and IBM’s SoftLayer…
Right now, customers can choose from public, private and hybrid clouds. But a study just published this week from Gartner, a research firm, predicts that most big businesses will have hybrid cloud deployments by 2017…
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