{"id":9344,"date":"2013-11-06T00:38:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T00:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/nov\/06\/rackspace-moves-towards-cloud-20-redesigned-public-cloud\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T00:38:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T00:38:23","slug":"rackspace-moves-towards-cloud-2-0-with-redesigned-public-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/rackspace-moves-towards-cloud-2-0-with-redesigned-public-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace moves towards \u2018Cloud 2.0\u2019 with redesigned public cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open cloud provider Rackspace has rolled out a complete revamp of its public cloud with Performance Cloud Servers &ndash; and according to Nigel Beighton, international VP technology and product, it represents a serious shift in how companies use their servers.<\/p>\n<p>The architectural redesign of the Rackspace Performance Cloud Server comes with four times the total RAM, double the CPU performance and 132 times the I\/O of its competitors, according to benchmark tests.<\/p>\n<p>But Beighton argues that simply drooling over the figures is the short-sighted approach.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The more interesting sub-context here is that this is responding to the changing nature of applications on cloud,&rdquo; Beighton told CloudTech.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When I look back over six months worth of data, we&rsquo;ve had an increase of 200% over that six months of people taking what we call &lsquo;fat slices&rsquo;, which fundamentally takes the whole machine.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What you are seeing here is a shift, a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open cloud provider Rackspace has rolled out a complete revamp of its public cloud with Performance Cloud Servers &ndash; and according to Nigel Beighton, international VP technology and product, it represents a serious shift in how companies use their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}