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Comments on: Rackspace Hosting makes two acquisitions

Following its recent IPO, the company snaps up Slicehost and Jungle Disk as part of a retooled cloud hosting strategy.

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by JimmyT--2008 October 23, 2008 8:33 AM PDT
If their cloud services uptime matches their hosted exchange uptime, Amazon has nothing to worry about.
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by jesdon October 23, 2008 9:08 AM PDT
I have heard nothing but good things from other webmasters about their Cloud hosting services so I would not be to surprised by their success, it is very exciting server technology, though I still like Media Temples grid server.<br />
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by Michael_Sheehan October 24, 2008 7:30 AM PDT
For another Cloud Computing vendor's perspective on the recent Amazon and Rackspace announcements, please view this post: http://blog.gogrid.com/2008/10/23/analysis-of-recent-cloud-announcements-rackspace-amazon/

-Michael Sheehan
Technology Evangelist for GoGrid
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