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Blog posts from January 2010

Lessons Learned from Platform Wars

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Earlier this month, HP and Microsoft kicked off 2010 (perhaps this will be the “Year of the Cloud”) with a pact to invest $250M towards cloud computing services. In other words, they’re teaming up so as to remain relevant in the cloud age… and, of course, to compete with their perpetual nemesis, IBM.

Memcached-as-a-Service for Blue Box Group Rails Applications

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We’re particularly excited to announce today's roll out of the first Memcached-as-a-Service offering to Blue Box Group clients. We first partnered with Blue Box Group in May of last year to create such an offering specific to running and managing Rail applications in the cloud, with a private beta launched shortly thereafter. Now it's time to bring this joint MaaS solution to everyone using Blue Box Group's hosting services.