Rackspace rebuffs takeover offers and ends 'strategic review'. It also appoints a new CEO

Rackspace rebuffs takeover offers and ends 'strategic review'. It also appoints a new CEO
Now the early adopters are in the cloud, the next lot of customers need their hands held, says Rackspace
A new approach can dish out bare-metal hardware on demand - and the standards are emerging to support it, says Peter Judge
OnMetal, the first product based on the OpenStack Ironic project, makes custom app deployment easy and is coming to Europe in 2015
Despite strong profits, Rackspace has asked Morgan Stanley to look at long term options
The Texas hosting company's shares rose as it benefited from rising demand for cloud services
Rackspace says the main challenge now is harvesting data generated by employees’ devices for analytics
BAFTA COO Kevin Prince says cloud-based hosting will help it deal with peak traffic and engage with audiences
Rackspace's 130,000 sq. foot, ultra-sustainable data centre will be the centrepiece of 15 acre campus in Crawley
Slough's data centres have kept out of the floods. Peter Judge suggests they think about contributing to flood defences to keep it that way
Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier retires and is replaced by co-founder Graham Weston, who will steer the company to higher-level services
The acquisition of ObjectRocket in 2013 is bearing fruit for Rackspace
Rackspace goes on the offensive with super-powered servers with a load of flash to boot
Learn how to drive application innovation and IT efficiency with the hybrid cloud.
New service lowers barriers to entry into Big Data analytics
As CERN prepares to restart the Collider, the IT guys are turning to OpenStack and a European Science Cloud for help
Hoster Rackspace wants to train partners and third parties in how to put together hybrid clouds
You'd be forgiven for thinking Robert Scoble led two separate professional lives - one as a globe-trotting blogger, one as a Rackspace "racker", spreading the good word on the cloudy company. But the two are linked. Take his Google Glass obsession. Scoble is a big fan of Glass (apart from the voice recognition and the not-so-hot telephony), whilst Rackspace is actually very interested in the wearable computing space, because it wants to provide the back end for all the apps running off of the devices. We talk with Scoble about what's happening in wearables, the Internet of Things and the race to dominate the cloud.
Alan Schoenbaum, leader of the legal team at Rackspace, explains what makes software patent trolls ‘tick’
Rakspace wants trolls at IP Nav to get a taste of their own medicine
Rackspace's new OpenCenter dashboard fronting OpenStack-based software aims to ease deployment
Data centres should not fear Britain's energy future, says Rackspace's Nigeil Beighton
Ultra-efficient Rackspace data centre on its way to London
Rackspace has posted impressive growth figures but that doesn't impress investors
Rackspace's new blueprints are designed to fuel adoption of the OpenStack cloud platform and help it grow toward maturity
New Rackspace site to get no-frills servers, it seems
Open source clouds win on costs, freedom and scalability, says a report
Redmond and Hortonworks are bringing big data to Windows users, with previews of Hadoop solutions for Windows Server and Windows Azure
Mark Templeton tells TechWeekEurope OpenStack is just not mature enough
Strategy focuses on standards, SLAs and government cooperation