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- Oops! A Tech IPO!
- Oops ... a tech IPO has taken place. Graham Watson, Lanham Napier, Pat Condon and Dirk Elmendorf of Rackspace were in fact brave enough to launch the initial offering of their company's stock to the public on Friday. Just as Between The...
- Tags: rackspace, tech, ipo, financial planning, investment, financial services, finance, tom steinert-threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-10
- Are more companies refusing to pay more for green IT?
- There used to be a perception, not so many months ago, that your company would have to spend more to green-ify its IT infrastructure. But the flagging economy is apparently dashing any hopes that high-tech vendors might secretly have harbored that they could get customers to spend more dollars for...
- Tags: Rackspace, Green Technology, Green IT, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Rackspace, as a service
- Rackspace subsidiary Mosso this week relaunched its hosting platform as a pay-as-you-grow cloud computing service. There have been noises recently about hosting provider Rackspace's ability to compete with Amazon's EC2 service and similar cloud offerings. Mosso is its answer to those critics. Briefing me on the announcement...
- Tags: Rackspace, Pricing Strategy, Mosso, Pricing, Marketing Research, Channel Management, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Rackspace offers a unique, green way to recycle an abandoned mall
- Say you're a fast-growing IT hosting service company adding 60 to 80 employees per month. You're maxing out your existing office space and need some new digs. Stat. How do you expand your company's physical footprint to accommodate more than 1,400 employees at your headquarters without completely contradicting your corporate...
- Tags: Rackspace, Site, Real Estate, Food & Beverage, Data Centers, Business Operations, Manufacturing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Creating Cost and Energy Efficiency through Outsourcing Hosting Solutions
- The White Paper looks at the efficiencies of outsourcing web and online infrastructure in an increasingly volatile and environmentally aware society. Specifically the white paper looks at the benefits of managed web hosting services compared with in-house hosting using a company's own datacentre facilities.
- Tags: Rackspace, Web Hosting, Outsourcing, Internet, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers 2008-02-04
- Rackspace - hosting of virtualized systems
- Rackspace - hosting of virtualized systemsHow this jive with MossoI thought this was the Mosso model. Mosso is a customer of Rackspace. All this cloud talk I can't take it any more...helpjohnmwillis.comRE: Rackspace - hosting of virtualized systemsJust a few months ago Rackspace proclaimed customers don't need virtualization http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=9788....
- Tags: Mosso, Rackspace, virtualized system
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Rackspace - hosting of virtualized systems
- Rackspace announced that the company was going to add hosting virtual servers to its list of services for those needing access to a physical server without having to acquire the server, necessary software and hire an IT administrative staff. It will be interesting to learn how successful this offering is....
- Tags: Rackspace, Information Technology, Hosting Company, Service, Organization, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Conversation with John Engates, Rackspace's CTO
- Conversation with John Engates, Rackspace's CTOBad CallJohn,This is what I sent Lanham with no replay, So munch has happened to RS and you have no details.Please call my cell so I can give you the whole story.Thanks,Kelly GalbraithData Center Engineer626-676-1287 Mobile Lanham,This is truly a bad situation, I have been...
- Tags: Data centers, Shermco, chiller, Neal Parker, DFW data center, Rackspace, breaker
- Discussion threads 2008-01-01
- Rackspace's really bad 36 hours: The Internet is fragile
- Rackspace's really bad 36 hours: The Internet is fragile99.999% Uptime = 100% chance of failureIt's pretty simple:If it can be hit...it will beIf it can be cut...it will beIf it can be burned...it will beIf it can be flooded...it will beIf it can be damaged, destroyed, or affected...it will be.Are...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Rackspace, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Internet is Fragile, bad 36-hour, Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Rackspace's really bad 36 hours: The Internet is fragile
- Rackspace, a Web hosting firm, should adopt that song "I Don't Like Mondays" as its corporate motto. After all, Monday turned out to be horrendous for the company. That song, a 1979 hit from The Boomtown Rats, sums up Rackspace's last 36 hours. First, Rackspace had a...
- Tags: Rackspace, Data Center, Internet, Techmeme, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Are you willing to pay more for a green tech supplier?
- How much does a particular supplier's green profile affect your decision to sign on the dotted line? I will answer this question personally and say that up until now, not much. I couldn't tell you, for example, where it's really best to buy your gasoline. (Because,...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Rackspace, Green Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Bolstering a SAN for a New Generation of Growth
- Founded on the principle that technology is only as good as its implementation, Rackspace Managed Hosting has thrived by tailoring its Web hosting solutions to the unique needs of its customers. Rackspace wanted to consolidate and simplify the management of its backup and storage services, reducing administration time and costs...
- Tags: Rackspace, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-06-01
- Conversation with John, Engetes, Rackspace's CTO
- Rackspaces PR firm contacted me and asked if I would be interested in speaking with Rackspaces CTO, John Engetes, to get a technology consumers view of the state of virtualization technology today. I, of course, jumped at the chance since I usually speak with vendors representatives. ...
- Tags: virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments, Consumer use of Virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- 'Fanatical Support' Distinguishes Rackspace's Leadership in Managed Hosting
- Rackspace is a San Antonio, Texas - based company that provides enterprise-level Web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. eBid, a procurement technology system provider, came to Rackspace for help serving its clients without having to worry about issues like infrastructure and bandwidth. eBid wanted a hosting...
- Tags: Managed Hosting, Rackspace, Leadership, Purchasing & Procurement, Web Hosting, It Services, Business Operations, Internet
- Case studies 2007-03-14
- Webcast: Managed Hosting Delivers Reliable, Scalable Infrastructure
- Delivering scalable and reliable hosting solutions is a necessity in today's high-growth environment. Stringent uptime requirements and unprecedented performance are both important to any expanding company. Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast, now available on demand, to hear John Engates, CTO of Rackspace Managed hosting, and Felipe Payet, Worldwide...
- Tags: Managed Hosting, Rackspace, Webcast, Web Hosting, Processors, Digital Media, Internet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2006-08-02
- Rackspace Managed Hosting: Utilizes VeriSign's Authentication and E-Commerce Solutions
- Rackspace Managed Hosting provides managed Web hosting services to enterprises of all sizes. Rackspace supplies all the servers, software, bandwidth and management needed to run almost any hosted application - from Internet to enterprise. With the need for their customers to have the ability to conduct e-commerce in a secure...
- Tags: Rackspace, VeriSign Inc., Authentication, E-business, Security
- Case studies
- Rackspace Leverages Red Hat Solutions to Provide Fanatical Support to Its Customers
- Rackspace Managed Hosting, the leading managed service provider, entrusts thousands of its customers' Web servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network. Founded in 1998 on the premise that Web hosting requires great service in addition to great technology, Rackspace initially deployed the legacy Red Hat Linux operating...
- Tags: Rackspace, Red Hat Inc., Open Source
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Does your OS matter in a cloud?
- Does your OS matter in a cloud?Some questionsI have two questions:1) Data. Where, exactly, is my data and is it secure. More importantly is it still legally my data. We all put money into the bank knowing that if the bank goes so does our money - does this same...
- Tags: cloud computing, operating system, desktop, computing, bank, Web application
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Microsoft should do this: Exchange plus Hotmail
- One of the reasons cited (by Cap Gemini, for example) for investigating Google Apps for Enterprise as an alternative to Microsoft Office is the cost of rolling out Exchange email to every worker in an organization. Employees who only need email accounts occasionally, for example to correspond with the HR...
- Tags: MSN Hotmail, Microsoft Corp., Service, Exchange, Mailtrust, Prices, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Squaring the cloud
- Hosting your application in the cloud got a lot easier yesterday — but there are still some gaps to fill for hosted application providers. Referring to Amazon's introduction of persistent storage volumes to its EC2 cloud computing service, Rightscale CEO Thorsten Von Eicken declared "clearly the cloud has just squared...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Storage Volume, Storage, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
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