For anyone interested in hosted and cloud services, I just posted this latest episode of CodeCast. Note that this episode makes no mention of any specific development tool or platform, it's only about the hosted services - generic and independent of developer tools.

CodeCast Episode 110: Rackspace Hosted/Cloud Services with Rob Collazo

http://www.code-magazine.com/codecast/?messageid=cf518335-93ef-459e-80fc-bc1743ac3eca

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Rob Collazo of Rackspace. Rob is a systems engineer who also runs their social media team, and was one of the first sys admins hired at Rackspace working for co-founder Jonathan Bryce. Rob discusses a wide range of topics related to the various services offered by Rackspace including hosted services such as managed, cloud, hybrid, SaaS application, e-commerce, corporate website, and developer/test environments. For managed hosting, Rob outlines the differences between private clouds, managed co-location (colo), single server config, and cloud servers. Additional details covered include trends, benefits, pricing, support services, and development scenarios.

• Rob Collazo - Blog: http://www.collazo.ws, Twitter: http://twitter.com/rcollazo

• http://rackspace.com

Length: 53:30