Rackspace bows out of IaaS market

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Yes, there's a tech bubble: Google Shopping Express proves it Microsoft's inconsistent Windows Phone 8.1 strategy stumbles forward Network World Daily News PM August 05, 2014 Share this email Rackspace bows out of IaaS market Rackspace is discontinuing its pure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering in favor of a new category of cloud services named "managed cloud" in which the company will support customers building and managing their cloud services.During the past couple of years Rackspace has been attempting to compete with low-price competitors such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft with its Azure Service and Google in the IaaS market. John Engates, CTO of Rackspace, says that's not the market Rackspace wanted to be in. "We realized in some regards that we needed to play our own game instead of chasing a competitor," Engates said, acknowledging that Amazon basically created the IaaS market with its Web Services division launch in 2007. 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