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The proliferation of new devices coupled with the BYOD culture and ‘always connected’ attitude has opened up huge opportunities for fast-moving IT players. Whether you’re an app developer requiring test and development capabilities, a pure-play SaaS provider, a software provider making the move to a SaaS model, or an IT Services company delivering a proof of concept or production app, you will know that the solutions you’re implementing can only be as reliable as the underlying infrastructure and people supporting it. Rackspace brings you the flexible infrastructure, services, industry expertise and Fanatical Support® to ensure that you deliver on time and to keep your users up and running around the clock. With thousands of IT players around the world hosted with us today, Rackspace will work with you to identify the right blend of public cloud, private cloud, dedicated hosting and hybrid hosting solutions for your software, all backed by our award-winning Fanatical Support®
Issue 1, June 2012
Bigging It Up?
‘Big Data’ is big news right now. But are the headlines, the hype, and the Hadoop hoopla really justified? What exactly IS Big Data? And precisely how big is big? Harriet Knox reports.
Basware Corporation
The Basware Corporation is a public company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. It was founded in 1985 and is now acknowledged as being the global leader in purchase-to-pay automation technology. It offers its Software-as-a-Service financial management worldwide for procurement and financial process automation, including packages for e-invoicing, e-procurement and travel and expense management. Hosting is a critical factor in their business.
Netbiscuits
Netbiscuits operates the world's leading B2B web software platform for the development, publishing and advertising on the mobile Internet. With premium clients such as eBay, Yahoo!, and AOL, Netbiscuits looked to Rackspace as their hosting partner of choice to provide them with the necessary stability, availability, and scalable infrastructure essential for mobile computing.
Sage CRM
Sage CRM is part of the Sage worldwide group dedicated to providing business management software solutions to more than 6 million customers around the globe. Sage CRM software is developed in Dublin and distributed through a global network of Sage offices and business partners to small and mid-sized enterprises in over 70 countries. Sage CRM is available in multiple languages including English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese.
commercetools GmbH
Founded in 2006 by Dirk Hörig and Denis Werner, commercetools is recognised as one of the world’s leading providers of SaaS-based eCommerce solutions. The company specialises in delivering enterprise scale, fully customisable ecommerce websites. The commercetools solution means that their clients do not need to invest in expensive software licenses or managed hardware to build an online shop.
Axios Systems Plc
Axios Systems is one of the world’s leading providers of Best Practice-based IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions. The company has a strong global presence with a network of offices and partners providing local support to the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific regions.
A Decision Maker’s Guide to Securing an IT Infrastructure
This document is intended to explain the options available that can assist in securing a hosted infrastructure and how to best protect the infrastructure from malicious attacks. It is also intended to give advice on setting a security policy and some best practices for securing an IT environment. If insufficient security expertise exists in-house, then finding a partner with the relevant skills and knowledge (whether a specialist security consultancy or a hosting organisation such as Rackspace) is essential.
The key factors for us were a combination of price, skill and knowledge, combined with a level of service and global presence. we chose Rackspace® Hosting as our global hosting partner
Bo-Göran Geitel, IT Infrastructure Manager, Basware
