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Rackspace Cloud Servers API

Posted in Cloud Computing on Jul 14th, 2009

Rackspace has launched a public beta of their Cloud Servers API.
The Cloud Servers product allows you to rent computing resources and is a competitor to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. Rackspace has a comparison page that describes, from their perspective, the advantages of their offering over EC2.
Some key differences from EC2 include:

Cloud Servers has [...]

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Bye bye Beta

Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2009

Google’s Gmail and Google Apps are no longer BETA products.
I guess that means that not only has the designation “beta” been stripped of any real meaning on the modern web, but even the decision to leave beta status can be taken on a whim. Perhaps there is a tangible reason — aside from marketing [...]

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