Remote Support for Private Clouds from RackSpace

'Net Features : wm-webhosting — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:15:00 GMT

The open cloud company Rackspace ranks high among major players like Amazon and Windows in the cloud computing industry, which is an impressive feat. But the company isn’t about to rest on its laurels, as it just announced a slew of new features and enhanced support offerings for its Rackspace Private Cloud Software. Rackspace just launched Private Cloud Software in August and already thousands of businesses and organizations from more than 125 different countries have downloaded it. These new additions have been collectively named “Alamo” and incorporate “Folsom,” the latest release of the OpenStack Cloud Software platform that came out in September and included nearly 200 new features. This is the same platform that powers the Rackspace Cloud. Alamo has allowed Rackspace to extend its service portfolio for the Rackspace Private Cloud, particularly with a new support level – Core Software Support – that includes remote access support for the Private Cloud Software stack all day long and every day of the year. Core Software Support will allow the cloud company’s engineers login to a customer’s private cloud environment to install, configure, patch and troubleshoot, as needed. Some other new features are highly scalable Block Storage that turns external storage into an additional storage volume and Object Storage powered by OpenStack Swift that allows customers to create “massively scalable” storage resource pools...(read more)

Softaculous Version 4.0 Hits the Shelves

Michael Garrity — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:11:00 GMT

Softaculous, a developer of hosting auto installer software, recently released version 4.0 of its application deployment system. The new updates patch up some of the program's bugs and add some new features and functions.

For those unfamiliar with the software, it was designed by Softaculous to be integrated into control panel software, such as cPanel, Plesk, Interworx and DirectAdmin, and is used by webmasters to quickly and efficiently install and update the scripts for various tools for blogs, forums, wikis and more. Some of the applications made available through Softaculous include WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and phpBB, among many others.

Some of the new features added to version 4.0 include:

- The Enduser home page will now show the top 15 scripts with a new user interface
- New email customization templates
- Improved Javascript for faster load times
- A new Hook is included on the update email notification sent to users
- Added sprites for script icons to facilitate faster loading
- Script icons in the list installation page

The new version includes many more features on top of a number of bug fixes.

Softaculous software is available in both free and paid options, which offer 59 and 259 apps, respectively.

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Remote Support for Private Clouds from RackSpace

Softaculous Version 4.0 Hits the Shelves