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Rackspace And Microsoft Bid For Their Slices Of The Cloud.

Authors :
Weier, Mary Hayes
Hoover, J. Nicholas
Source :
Informationweek. 10/27/2008, Issue 1208, p20-21. 2p.
Publication Year :
2008

Abstract

The article reports on the acquisition by Rackspace, a hosted computing services provider, of Sliceshot, a hosted virtual servers provider, and Jungle Disk, an online storage provider for its bid at Amazon.com's Web Services. The $11.5 million acquisition aims to broaden the company's presence in the rising cloud computing market. It also mentions that Microsoft Corp. will push its utility computing platform and online storage in the last week of October 2008.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
87506874
Issue :
1208
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Informationweek
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
35026527