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Look out, Amazon Web Services. Rackspace is cloning its own cloudy service – and to quote Jimi Hendrix's Foxy Lady, it's "comin' to getcha." Way back when, Rackspace Hosting teamed up with NASA to create the OpenStack community precisely to leverage the smarts and excitement of the open source community to take on the closed …

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  1. Justin 9

    Not too much to worry about

    Amazon will be able to beat them on price. Rackspace are notoriously expensive.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    @Justin 9

    That's why the roads are full of Skodas, price is the only consideration. /s

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  3. eamonn@computenext.com
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    Marketing

    Conflict of interests, no? Federated clouds has a serious opportunity to level the playing field, but how can Rackspace compete as an individual provider while also claiming to enable their competition? More thoughts here: http://bit.ly/15j186n

    Eamonn Colman

    Director of Marketing

    www.computenext.com

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