Dana Gardner

Positioning its cloud hosting services as an alternative to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Rackspace announced today the public availability of Cloud Servers API based on representational state transfer (REST). Taking an open-source approach, Rackspace’s 43,000 cloud-computing customers played a major role in the API specifications, explained Emil Sayegh general manager for The Rackspace Cloud, formerly branded as Mosso cloud hosting. They overwhelmingly preferred the newer lighter-weight REST approach to the older heavy-duty SOAP standard that Amazon uses, he said. “With ... (more)

Cloud Security Depends on the Human Element

This BriefingsDirect guest post comes to you courtesy of Andras Robert Szakal, director of software architecture for the U.S. Federal Software Group at IBM and a member of The Open Group board of directors. He can be contacted here. By Andras Robert Szakal I’m spending a considerable amount of time these days thinking about cyber security. Not just contemplating the needs of my customers b... (more)

HP Wraps Up Virtual Event Series

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is wrapping up it’s series of virtual conferences designed to give IT professionals online access to briefings on business and technology trends from HP executives and outside experts. On July 28, HP will offer the HP Solutions Virtual Event for The Americas. The three-day session will feature 30 breakout sessions, seminars, presentations and demo theater presentations... (more)

HP Offers Cloud Computing Consulting

Hewlett-Packard (HP), which already has an array of services to help customers chart their way through the challenges and opportunities of cloud computing, loaded two more arrows into its quiver yesterday with the announcement of HP Cloud Discovery Workshop and HP Cloud Roadmap Service. The Palo Alto, Calif-based global IT giant is aiming the services at enterprise customers who are lookin... (more)