A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will ...

A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will ...

Xeround offers a cloud database-as-a-service for MySQL-based applications. Currently the service is offered for EC2 MySQL databases, as well as Rackspace-MySQL and Heroku-MySQL applications.

Morris details how Rackspace even has a model for customers that want DIY cloud solutions. They key for Rackspace is to offer a host of options to lower the barrier to entry.

Rackspace March 19 opened the doors to its Open Cloud Academy, a training program that offers global IT training and certification at an extremely affordable price.

What drove this change in strategy within Rackspace? Two things: competition and price. The race for public cloud workloads is quickly settling into a three horse race between tech giants Amazon ...

MySQL itself has issues that can’t be fixed “with simple hacks and workarounds,” he added. In addition, Rackspace is using the Cassandra storage framework , and sees promise in integrating ...