Large hosting and cloud hosting company Rackspace has aquired Cloudkick for an undisclosed amount of money. Cloudkick, which opened it’s doors in early 2009, helps to provide detailed graphs on your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing. This should help the cloud server giant know a little better what is going on with your servers.
Cloudkick has a little over 1,500 businesses that it helps, from Fortune 500 enterprises to small start-ups. Cloudkick has helped more than 1 million servers know a little better what is going on.
Microsoft announced that the Hyper-V Cloud has a new group of tools designed for businesses that are looking to generate their own Windows Server-based private cloud infrastructures.