When Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff launched his CRM platform in the cloud in 1999, he embarked on a “No Software” campaign to tout his “Software as a Service” agenda. Today, hosting service Rackspace is promoting a similar campaign with the launch of NoMoreServers.com, a site dedicated to the emergence of Computing-as-a-Service models (like hosting, cloud computing and SaaS) to power enterprise IT.
NoMoreServers.com is a rally cry of the computing-as-a-service era. The site seeks to empower businesses to acknowledge the decline of in-house computing and the rise of the All Cloud Enterprise (ACE). Covering hosting, cloud computing, SaaS, and the key vendors driving them (eg: Amazon, Google, Rackspace, Salesforce, etc), NoMoreServers.com will feature daily commentary explaining all things cloud computing. The site will include third-party content and news about hosting, cloud computing and will have a live community portal for visitors to engage on the topic of outsourcing computing.
Rackspace deliver hosting and cloud services to businesses and has more than 70,000 customers, including over 51,000 cloud computing customers. Hosting guru Andrew Schroepfer is taking lead of the new site. Schroepfer founded, led, and sold Tier1 Research, a research firm focused on the hosting and data center industry. Rackspace also recently partnered with Robert Scoble to launch Building 43, which aims to help businesses use modern technology and social sites to increase their exposure and the money they’re making by offering valuable advice.
You could at least link the domain, dragging to a new tab is such a drag!
Rackspace sucks. Softlayer FTW!
On what basis do Rackspace suck, sorry?
they dont. we use them for our own clients on ded servers and their support IS fanatical….there is no better data center on the continent IMHO…and after using 6 others in the past decade we’re SO SO SO happy to have found Rackspace!
Jim
seconded.
Should also mention that Rackspace owns Slicehost
Anyone fine it odd that NoMoreServers.com has an article on it called “Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle” ?
And also hosts this site
I thought MT did or has that stopped now? Because MT advertises on their website that they host TC
We use them (we have 3 live sites with them). To be frank worse customer service and they dont care about customer!
No point of doing all this stuff when you don’t know how to how to handle your customer.
I have wonder why nomoreservers.com deserves a link out from techcrunch. Looks like rackspace launched a blog on a topic where they want to promote their services. Why is it worthy of any mention?
This is very exciting. My hope is that cloud computing will eventually abstract the architect from node management design, and focus more on business domain development. *THAT’s* the future. You can quote me on that.
I’ve been using Rackspace (5 dedicated servers) and Slicehost (I have 3 VPSs) for about 3 years now, they DO handle customers very well and the support is just amazing, the best I’ve ever experienced in my 11 years of working with web sites.
sounds interesting, we are getting ready to launch nomoreemailing.com
and push our microsocial platform http://www.blurt.it for it
Love the cloud baby
Why do you cover so much Rackspace news, but never any other provider? I’m a big fan of the UK2 Group’s http://VPS.net cloud hosting service, which is fairly new, but has been totally excellent.
Rackspace isn’t the only hosting company on the planet (pun related to The Planet unintended), how about less focus on your sponsor?
RS knows how to send/leverage a press release?
Anything that can help business focus on their core competencies (typically not managing IT) and reduce costs (or at least spread them out over time) is a good thing. IMO SaaS and hosted servers offer that, and often a better solution than the traditional installed on premise software/OS/server solution.
Did you visit the site and really have a look through it?
It’s unfortunate the site looks unfinished and a poorly veiled ad for rackspace rather than a good informational site (with of course a fat backlink to Rackspace).
Rip slicehost & mosso
Rackspace cloud has treated me well, but their PR leaves something to be desired.
Site looks like a good resource and all, but I can’t seem to subscribe to it through RSS/Atom. I don’t have experience working with Rackspace, but if it’s going to be about cloud computing and pushing for the cloud in the Enterprise, then I’m all for it.
I agree that Rackspace is awesome, in fact I have recently championed their services to a new client when they were having negotiations issues with peer1 another hosting provider. However they are not the only other top shelf hosting/cloud provider. Savvis is another provider that can scale to global solutions while providing first class service protected by service level agreements (SLA). Also lets not forget IBM (the company I work for) they will provide a fully managed private cloud that can be linked back to the cloud you may have running on site.