Rackspace public cloud struggles against Amazon's AWS

John Leonard
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Heavy investment in its open cloud vision reduces its margins

Rackspace Hosting Inc, whose core business in dedicated hosting but which is also a rising player in public cloud services, reported better-than-expected second quarter results. Overall revenue ros...

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