Rackspace has made the jump from being a pure-play hosting company to a cloud computing tour de force. And the San Antonio-based company shows no signs of slowing its cloud roll. In the second quarter of 2010, Rackspace added 8,510 customers into its cloud computing business, pushing its total number of cloud customers to 88,590 as of June 30, 2010, a massive increase from the 51,440 cloud customers it had a year prior. And Rackspace's cloud revenue rose to $23.2 million in the second quarter, up from $19.3 million in the first quarter.
Rackspace's Cloud Servers cloud computing play and Cloud Files cloud storage offering have been generating buzz, while its Cloud Sites development platform has attracted many developers. To accommodate its shift to the cloud, Rackspace launched a cloud-focused channel program earlier this year.
In July Rackspace also launched its OpenStack initiative, an open source cloud computing play.
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