What's in a cloud ?

A colleague referred me to this article by Paul Wainwright about Rackspace / Mosso and their new offering for a truely commoditised hosting offering. Also others like IBM and Google are entering this market so lot's of developements can be expected here .. So ... starting a new category : Cloudcomputing

 

.. Rackspace subsidiary Mosso this week relaunched its hosting platform as a pay-as-you-grow cloud computing service. There have been noises recently about hosting provider Rackspace’s ability to compete with Amazon’s EC2 service and similar cloud offerings. Mosso is its answer to those critics.

Briefing me on the announcement last week, Rackspace’s senior VP of strategy Lew Moorman told me, “This is a very important strategy for Rackspace … This idea has really blossomed into something we feel is the future of hosting — we really think it’s going to bring something new to the market.”

Rebranded as The Hosting Cloud, the Mosso offering brings cloud attributes to the commodity Web server hosting market. Web developers can select the server stack they want to deploy — including Linux and Windows (both on the same website if they want), plus higher-level components such as PHP, mySQL, Ruby on Rails, Microsoft SQL Server and IIS7 — and the Mosso system implements it on demand. Its slogan: “Code, load and go.” ...

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