CodeCast Episode 110: Rackspace Hosted/Cloud Services with Rob Collazo

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Rob Collazo of Rackspace. Rob is a systems engineer who also runs their social media team, and was one of the first sys admins hired at Rackspace working for co-founder Jonathan Bryce. Rob discusses a wide range of topics related to the various services offered by Rackspace including hosted services such as managed, cloud, hybrid, SaaS application, e-commerce, corporate website, and developer/test environments. For managed hosting, Rob outlines the differences between private clouds, managed co-location (colo), single server config, and cloud servers. Additional details covered include trends, benefits, pricing, support services, and development scenarios.

Guest

·         Rob Collazo - Blog: http://www.collazo.ws, Twitter: http://twitter.com/rcollazo

Links

·         http://rackspace.com

·         Rackspace Cloud Hosting Demos

·         CloudU (Cloud University and Training)

Length: 53:30