Rackspace announced today at SXSW 2010 the launch of a Direct-to-Consumer Web Infrastructure offering for the Music recording industry service.  This enterprise solution will provide open source web infrastructure to media segments. It looks like this will  all be offered in the cloud hosting space.

“Music recording labels have traditionally focused their resources on non-differentiating IT tasks or have outsourced their D2C applications to third parties in an attempt to support hundreds of Artists’ complex sites and infrastructures. Rackspace gives labels the freedom to focus on differentiating their businesses via application development and the support of business processes to meet the needs of both the Artist and the fan,” said Wes Laird, Director of Rackspace Media Services, Rackspace Hosting.

This is either perfect timing for Rackspace or just savvy marketing, because according to the economy the music industry is booming while others are lagging. Score one for Rackspace! Check out full article at Marketwatch.

Here’s a portion of the article to give you a gist of the news:

NaviSite, a long time provider of application management and managed cloud services has announced today a partnership with Visibility Corporation to host and enable VISIBILITY.NET, and ERP solutions for complex product manufacturers as a SaaS (software-as-a-service.) They have a new managed Microsoft® Windows® Servers, Microsoft SQL Servers and CISCO® Firewalls as a platform that are targeted at manufacturers varying in size and need for the VISIBILITY.net ERP solution.  These solutions are meant to meet the requirements of the Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s.)  This will allow them to deliver their SaaS services faster.

“NaviSite’s proven ability to service ISVs in their transition to SaaS is evidenced by Visibility’s selection of our solutions,” said Sumeet Sabharwal, Senior Vice President Strategic Alliances, NaviSite.  Later stating that “NaviSite’s managed hosting solutions are the ideal platform for ISVs that need to leverage hosted environments to expand their marketplace while continuing to ensure that their customer deployments are secure and reliable.”

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