Comments on: Talkin’ with Rackspace’s CEO Lanham Napier about the Cloud and Hosting http://bartongeorge.net/2008/11/06/talkin-with-rackspaces-ceo-lanham-napier-bout-the-cloud-and-hosting/ To the clouds and beyond... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:17:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kelso http://bartongeorge.net/2008/11/06/talkin-with-rackspaces-ceo-lanham-napier-bout-the-cloud-and-hosting/#comment-1983 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:50:32 +0000 http://barton808.wordpress.com/?p=412#comment-1983 This guy has it made… the prices they charge for their service are ridiculous… however people feel ‘privileged’ to use their service… a true marketing genius.

]]> By: Rackspace’s CTO John Engates and his “Cloudy” thoughts « Barton’s Blog http://bartongeorge.net/2008/11/06/talkin-with-rackspaces-ceo-lanham-napier-bout-the-cloud-and-hosting/#comment-44 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:52:23 +0000 http://barton808.wordpress.com/?p=412#comment-44 [...] I taped at the Rackspace Customer Event is my conversation with John Engates, Rackspace CTO.  Like Lanham and Jonathan, John was a very approachable and likable guy.  I checked out John’s [...]

]]> By: barton808 http://bartongeorge.net/2008/11/06/talkin-with-rackspaces-ceo-lanham-napier-bout-the-cloud-and-hosting/#comment-42 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:26:05 +0000 http://barton808.wordpress.com/?p=412#comment-42 Hey William,

You are correct, I have been using the word “podcast” a bit liberally. I do plan to turn it into an actual podcast series and make myself legit ;) Hopefully your comment will motivate me to do it sooner rather than later.

Barton

]]> By: William Ashworth http://bartongeorge.net/2008/11/06/talkin-with-rackspaces-ceo-lanham-napier-bout-the-cloud-and-hosting/#comment-41 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:17:13 +0000 http://barton808.wordpress.com/?p=412#comment-41 Couple things…

1. I would LOVE if you’d actually roll your mp3′s into a “podcast”. I know you’re calling it a podcast right now, but it’s not. It doesn’t have an XML feed that translates to an mp3 player via iTunes or other method. If you need help, I’d be happy to lend some strategy on how that can easily be done :)

2. I have some thoughts on the “cloud hosting” issue myself, actually blogged today. I have yet to see a fully stable solution, Mosso included, and am doubting the cloud hosting idea as of yet. Right now, it seems we have a lot of expensive hardware and staff working to try to accomplish this, but without proper structure of the devices in a failover state, I don’t see it happening yet. Media Temple, Amazon and yes, even Mosso, have all suffered outages as a result.

Thoughts? Anyone? Feel free to check out my blog and read/Digg/send to a friend as well. This is a good idea that hasn’t been fully executed yet in my opinion.

Read: Cloud Computing – Is it just a bunch of fluff?

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