What a great conference last week. Lew Moorman opened the keynote, Toward an Open Cloud, at OSCON 2010. He mainly talked the whole time about how Rackspace got started and has succeeded through the years, taking standard based technologies and making them into great services. He talked a ton about OpenStack, the new RackspaceCloud open source cloud hosting platform and it’s commitment in 4 opens: open design, open development, open community and open source.
Check out the video:
Wouldn’t it be cool if all of China switched over to cloud servers? I think that would be awesome and help save our World so much. For now Foshan, near Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong has selected CDC Global Services to build a cloud computing center to service all businesses in the area. Apparently, Foshan is one of the top-10 cities in China, with the highest GDP per capita.
Just so all of you know, this will be a 100% government-funded cloud computing center. This should change everything. A 100% Gov funded cloud hosting center could open some doors. Then again, it could limit a lot of what people are reading. I know that censorship has been a problem over the years in China. Well see if Chinese cloud servers will ever happen!
Standing Cloud, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner, is holding a webinar for Rackspace Cloud customers. In this webinar Rackspace Cloud users will:
Date: Thursday, July 29th
Time: 11am PST / 1pm CST / 2pm EST
