{"id":2980,"date":"2012-08-03T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2325300"},"modified":"2012-08-03T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T13:18:00","slug":"cloud-computing-rackspace-kicks-off-the-openstack-cloud-roll-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-rackspace-kicks-off-the-openstack-cloud-roll-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Rackspace Kicks Off the OpenStack Cloud Roll-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its reported immaturity, Rackspace has gone production with the Essex version of OpenStack, making it the first large-scale public cloud deployment of the fabled open source platform.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s positioning Open Cloud as freeing users from vendor lock-in, a taunt directed at Amazon, Google and Microsoft whose customers it expects to run off.<br \/>\nOther OpenStack clouds should follow quickly, say, from HP, Dell and Intel, and since they\u2019ll be look-a-likes users able to flit from one to another.<br \/>\nTo get the roll-out started Rackspace is offering public, private and hybrid hosting solutions and says there\u2019s unlimited availability of Cloud Databases and both Linux and Windows Cloud Servers on OpenStack.<br \/>\nSome mojo called RackConnect will integrate public and private clouds. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2325300\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its reported immaturity, Rackspace has gone production with the Essex version of OpenStack, making it the first large-scale public cloud deployment of the fabled open source platform.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s positioning Open Cloud as freeing users from vendor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}