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OpenStack kingpin Rackspace hires bankers to help it mull 'inbound strategic proposals'

Updated Brutality of cloud economics means 100,000 servers are no longer enough

On-Prem15 May 2014 | 2

Battle of the Linux clouds! Linode DOUBLES RAM to take on Digital Ocean

Also adds SSDs, Intel Ivy Bridge for 'largest single investment we've made in the company'

SaaS17 Apr 2014 | 10

Linode raises Hourly Billing flag against Digital Ocean pirates

VPS-vs-VPS fight brings billing parity to hosting market

SaaS09 Apr 2014 | 2

The cloud awaits... but is your enterprise ready for the jump?

Five ways to find out

SaaS04 Apr 2014 | 18

Rackspace seals new UK data center in frosty air-cooled TOMB

This ain't your normal Crawley bit barn

Channel19 Feb 2014 | 3

Rackspace shares pummelled by CEO retirement shock

Lanham Napier hangs up his hat

On-Prem10 Feb 2014 |

Hosting outfit goes PERMANENTLY TITSUP after 'lifetime' plans kill biz

NodeKi set to become lifeless corpse

On-Prem15 Jan 2014 | 25

Host Minecraft on Shard Gaming? Grab your data RIGHT NOW before it goes completely titsup

Abrupt shutdown burns servers for loads of games

SaaS12 Nov 2013 | 15

Crack open those wallets: Microsoft is raising software prices AGAIN

Hosting biz bosses warned of double-digit hikes in 2014, 2015

Channel06 Sep 2013 | 52

VCs toss gold into DigitalOcean

Funding lets scrappy hoster expand server fleet

SaaS07 Aug 2013 | 2

Top server host OVH warns of 'multi-stage' hacking attack

'Higher level of paranoia' suggests EU and US users should change passwords

Security23 Jul 2013 | 7

UKFast hoovers up customer list of BurstNET

Cloud and server hosting biz jumps on M&A trail

Channel05 Jul 2013 |

Cloud silo and services firm UKFast hires personal shopper

M&A specialist to help it score after 'missing out on past targets'

Networks26 Jun 2013 | 3

Kim Dotcom victim of 'largest data MASSACRE in history'

Megaupload servers wiped – were Feds to blame?

Networks19 Jun 2013 | 99

Comms giant Vodafone ready to smash up hosting and services market

Using C&WW buy as foundation... but where's its channel?

Channel12 Jun 2013 | 6

Big Blue blows big green in SoftLayer public cloud gobble

If you can't beat them, eat them. And make them move to OpenStack

SaaS04 Jun 2013 | 1

SoftLayer sticks with Super Micro servers, ponders Open Compute

It's all about the supply chain - THEN the price

Systems28 May 2013 |

Price cuts, OpenStack transition make Rackspace miss in Q1

Revenues and profits up, but Wall Street will freak out

SaaS09 May 2013 |

There's more to cloud computing than just hosting

It's all about choice

SaaS11 Apr 2013 | 1

Protect your data with a cloudy mixture

Where should it live?

SaaS09 Apr 2013 | 1

Bye-bye Telinco - death warrant finally issued by TalkTalk

Exclusive How long until they come for YOU@*.co.uk?

Networks14 Mar 2013 | 17

Malaysian hackers deface 30+ sites hosted by Melbourne company

Serversinseconds.com.au and UberGlobal embroiled in hack

Security26 Feb 2013 | 3

Rackspace rides OpenStack, lassos chubby, cloudy cash cow

'Open cloud and fanatical outcomes' – and that's fanatical in a good way

SaaS12 Feb 2013 |

Ex-Microsoft cloud chap James Henigan crowned Rise king

'It was sensible we made him the public face'

Channel22 Jan 2013 |

Rackspace sales and profits pop in Q3

'We are the birth mother of OpenStack'

SaaS07 Nov 2012 | 2

Pirate Bay moves to the cloud to confound copyright cops

Police left with very little to seize

SaaS17 Oct 2012 | 83

UK.gov tries to close site giving home addresses of badger cull figures

Animal libber reveals opponents' details, keeps his secret

Legal12 Oct 2012 | 54

Euro watchdog: We need ONE definition of 'illegal content' across EU

Scurvy server dogs threatened with the plank

Legal19 Sep 2012 | 10

Rackspace lands in Australia

Takes hall in Digital Realty's local bit barn

SaaS22 Aug 2012 | 2

Cloud-puffing Iomart goes south - to gobble Manc biz Melbourne

Data centre tentacles spread across Blighty

On-Prem20 Aug 2012 |

The policy that helped Anonymous hack AAPT

How vigilant is your host or public cloud provider?

SaaS07 Aug 2012 | 20

Rackspace profits from cloudy transitions

The OpenStack effect, even before the code went live

SaaS07 Aug 2012 | 2

UK ISPs promise punters 'full' and 'open' internet 'access'

Except when pirates choke our pipes

Networks26 Jul 2012 | 25

France: Forcing Google to police YouTube is a non-non

No need to hunt down re-posted copyrighted stuff

Legal24 Jul 2012 | 10

PEER 1 gobbles up UK managed-hosting biz for £25m

NetBenefit's parent becomes its customer

Networks06 Jun 2012 |

Japanese giant NTT gobbles London data centre biz Gyron

'I sold that', insists Vince Cable. 'Me!'

Networks01 Jun 2012 | 2

UPS death in Pulsant data centre knocks out websites

Four-minute outage sparks domino effect

Systems30 May 2012 | 19

Google now gets 250k copyright takedown requests EACH WEEK

More than all requests made during 2009, Choc Factory says

Legal29 May 2012 | 32

Mobile net filters block legit content too – campaign group

It even bins age-appropriate stuff

Networks17 May 2012 | 33

Zunicore adds GPUs to clouds

Cloudy child follows hosting parent into HPC

SaaS30 Apr 2012 |

ICANN: Privates leaked in top-level domain land grab blunder

gTLD applications viewable by rival web biz barons

Networks13 Apr 2012 | 3

ICANN flubs new domain deadline after site snafu

'Unusual behaviour' blamed in gTLD hiccup

Networks13 Apr 2012 | 2

Is it time to take the fight into the Clouds?

The years to come seem waste of breath, to server minders

SaaS30 Mar 2012 | 1

Everything you ever wanted to know about private cloud

Keeping it to yourself

SaaS08 Mar 2012 | 10

Rackspace snaps up SharePoint911

Fanatical Microsoft collaboration

SaaS16 Feb 2012 | 1

Rackspace breaks billion buck barrier in 2011

Cloudy block storage, database, and firewall in the works

SaaS13 Feb 2012 | 1

Namesco spits out phishy warning after credit card info leak

'Please do not treat this as SPAM'

Security13 Jan 2012 | 6

Big cloud Internap eats little cloud Voxel

$30m (or more) to net smaller fish

SaaS03 Jan 2012 |

Shift to clouds pumps up Rackspace Hosting

Managed hosting growing, too

On-Prem07 Nov 2011 | 1

Sites downed by 1&1 web outage

Services AWOL, users annoyed by lack of info

Networks26 Sep 2011 | 39

Brits registering .uk domains mostly get first choice

Don't fancy yours much

Networks23 Sep 2011 | 38

Sun rises over .xxx smut domain

Morning glory period for owner-operators

Networks07 Sep 2011 | 21

TPG swoops on cloud hosting firm

Makes generous bid for IntraPower

On-Prem18 Jul 2011 | 1

Bangs for bucks: Our lightning tour of cloudonomics

How to measure a piece of string

SaaS13 Jul 2011 | 6

Servers: My place or yours?

Home and Away fixtures

On-Prem06 Jul 2011 | 15

Popular FTP package download tarball poisoned

'Someone having a few lulz', suggests author

Security05 Jul 2011 | 20