Infographic : API Adoption And The Open Cloud - What Is An API?

You probably use application programming interfaces (APIs) multiple times a day and aren’t even aware of it. They make it easier to share photos with friends, access massive data stores and drive new app development.

With the rise of APIs, including our own Open Cloud API, we’ve compiled an overview to help you understand how APIs work, how you’re already using them, and how businesses are finding big successes with APIs.


Rackspace® — API Adoption And The Open Cloud: What Is An API? [Infographic]




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Infographic : Hosting to Storage - Why the Cloud is a Big Deal for Small Businesses

Cloud computing helps businesses get off the ground with little upfront investment and operate on a shoestring while accessing technology and applications traditionally reserved for big businesses.

Services like web hosting, hosted storage, and email hosting take the financial strain and workload off of business so they can focus on their core competencies. Take a look at what a big deal the cloud is becoming for small businesses.


Rackspace® — [INFOGRAPHIC] Hosting to Storage: Why the Cloud is a Big Deal for Small Businesses





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Infographic : Healthcare in the Cloud

Cloud computing is changing the way healthcare delivers care. Over 70% of health care providers are planning to deploy cloud technologies like email, collaboration, scheduling, and other systems so they can focus on patient care, not caring for complex IT systems.

The growing healthcare IT industry is in the spotlight this week with National Health IT Week sponsored by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. In recognition of the partnership between the cloud and healthcare, we took a look at how cloud computing is impacting the healthcare industry.


Rackspace® — [Infographic] Healthcare in the Cloud



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AWS Week in Review - September 3rd to September 9th, 2012

Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:

Tuesday, September 4	Jeff posted a new AWS Report, Michael Kellen of Sage Bionetworks. AWS announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in Singapore.
Wednesday, September 5	AWS posted a new AWS case study. This study describes how Edmodo uses Amazon RDS to handle 500 database connections per second and 200K web requests per minute. Amazon CloudFront now supports Cookies, Price Classes, and enhanced logging.
Friday, September 7	Jeff posted another new AWS Report, Colin Lazier talks about Amazon Glacier.

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