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About Rackspace
Rackspace US, Inc. (dba Rackspace) is a IT hosting company based in San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in the United Kingdom as well as data centers operating in Texas, Virginia,the United Kingdom and Hong Kong in late 2008. A subsidiary of Rackspace, MailTrust™, operates in Blacksburg, VA.
Rackspace's support ideology - termed Fanatical Support™ - and team structures involve all "Rackers" (employees). -
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Quotes about Rackspace
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“ Rackspace's data center expansion in the Chicago-area is confirmation of the trusted partnership we share, As Rackspace grows, we will continue to provide highly efficient data center design coupled with operational excellence so that Rackspace can continue serving their customers with an unmatched service experience. ”
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“ We are witnessing a revolution in how businesses choose to buy and consume IT. Where in the past, organizations ran their own entire IT operation; increasingly they are choosing to buy IT as a service from firms like Rackspace. ”
In Web Host Rackspace Launches Critical Sites Service in Europe
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Mentioned In 47 Articles
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How Open Compute is a Win for Rackspace
Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 23 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers
... and storage for customers over the past year, adding more than 12,000 servers in its data centers. Rackspace is also keen on increasing its use of technology based on the Open Compute Project (OCP), which is ...
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Comment Mentions: Facebook Rackspace Hosting Rackspace
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Cloud Expo Keynote: The Era of Open Clouds Is Upon Us
Explore SOA World Magazine (May 10 2012) Cloud Computing
...ing climate change.
In his Day 3 Keynote at the 10th International Cloud Expo, John Engates, CTO of Rackspace, will discuss the open ecosystem and how, ultimately, winning cloud technologies will be based on t...
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Comment Mentions: Europe University of Texas Rackspace
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It’s not easy being green: Data center edition
Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Wind , Cloud Computing
...former energy czar at Google, moderated the panel that also featured the head of sustainability for Rackspace; someone building an HPC cluster for oil company BP; someone from Intel; and Jonathan Koomey, a con...
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Rackspace Green Survey Shows Customers Value Green Web Hosting Over Cost
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 27 2012) Construction
...ack of clean energy and not being transparent enough about the details of its cloud infrastructure. Rackspace randomly selected 2,000 customers, of which 232 responded. This year, customers from 24 countries r...
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace Amazon.com Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Roundup: Windstream, Rackspace, Savvis, AboveNet
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 13 2012) Cloud Computing
... a need for companies to outsource their email services to third party providers at a growing rate Rackspace combines the latest version of Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 and a broad feature ...
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Comment Mentions: Europe Bill Fathers Rackspace
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Rackspace Cloud Runs on 20 Megawatts of Power
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 14 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing
Rackspace uses 20.9 megawatts of electricity to power more than 79,000 servers in its data centers, the compa...
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace Amazon.com Rackspace
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Q&A: Rackspace’s Suaad Sait Discusses His New Role as Chief Marketing Officer
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 20 2012) Cloud Computing
January 20, 2012 -- Earlier this month, cloud and web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting appointed Suaad Sait in the company's newly created position of chief marketing officer. Su...
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Rackspace: Bull and Bear Cases Revisited
Explore Forbes.com (Jan 10 2012) Cloud Computing
Following my Rackspace: Bull and Bear Cases article, I had the opportunity to speak with Bryan McGrath, Director of Finan...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Forrester Research Rackspace
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Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?
Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing
...At that point, there aren’t many companies on the planet that can achieve the scale of an Amazon, a Rackspace, a Google, or a Microsoft. So why not trust your loads to the experts? There will always be pushbac...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Oracle
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Web Host Rackspace Begins Beta for Cloud Monitoring Service
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Dec 16 2011) Monitoring , Cloud Computing
...ate beta will be offering five data centers from which polling services will be available. Web Host Rackspace Begins Beta for Cloud Monitoring Service * By Justin Lee, December 16, 2011 * + Tweet + + + A scree...
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Web Host Rackspace Promotes Lew Moorman to President
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Dec 9 2011) Cloud Computing
December 9, 2011 -- Cloud and web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting announced on Friday it has promoted Lew Moorman to president. This is the second promotion ...
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Comment Mentions: Lanham Napier Rackspace Hosting Rackspace
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Web Host Rackspace Names Managing Director of International Operations
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Dec 2 2011) Cloud Computing
December 2, 2011 - Rackspace Hosting announced it has named Taylor Rhodes managing director of international operations to lead...
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Comment Mentions: Europe Lanham Napier Rackspace Hosting
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Rackspace: Bull and Bear Cases
Explore Forbes.com (Nov 24 2011)
Rackspace is a darling of Wall Street, benefitting from a hefty multiple because it is viewed as a pure Cloud...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com IBM Rackspace
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Bits Blog: A Telecom Pushes Its Cloud Strategy
Explore Technology (Nov 15 2011) Cloud Computing
... spreading its costs by offering cloud services to companies. Data center hosting specialists, like Rackspace, have offerings. The big technology companies have to be in the cloud market, and they are — Micros...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Facebook Rackspace
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Rackspace Launches OpenStack Private Cloud
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 10 2011) Cloud Computing
Rackspace Hosting continues to lease more data center space, even as it extends its business beyond its own f...
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Comment Mentions: Cisco DuPont Fabros Technology Lanham Napier
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