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Archive for July, 2009

Our 15 Minutes of Fame (Well almost)

by Cameron Nouri on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment

We don’t usually highlight when we get media coverage on our company through this blog, but we had to share this one. It’s too good to pass up. A few weeks ago on the evening of July 15, 2009 Rackspace Email got its 15 minutes of fame. Well actually it was more like half a [...]

Hadoop Discussion at OSCON Today

by Cameron Nouri on July 22, 2009 | No Comments

Mike Olson, the CEO of Cloudera, is giving a presentation on Hadoop at OSCON 2009 today at 4:30 pm PT. Check it out – and watch for the slides on how Rackspace uses Hadoop! “Using Hadoop for Big Data Analysis” http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/7378

Ordering Delivery Was Never Easier

by Melissa Mancuso on July 22, 2009 | No Comments

I am really good at forgetting things. Mostly, I forget my lunch—which really is a shame considering I put in time each night to carefully craft the next day’s meal. Peanut butter sandwich with no crust, 22 seedless grapes, and 3 cookies. Sometimes, if I am feeling really daring, I will pack some chips. It’s [...]

[Email Tip] Save Time by Sending Email Blind

by Ben Hubbard on July 15, 2009 | No Comments

BCC, blind carbon copy, is a tool to send an email to someone and share it with a third person without the primary contact knowing it. Have you ever been copied on an email, the contents of which were sent to you just as an FYI? Then before you know it, you’ve received 5 or [...]

Impact of the Month Award for May

by Ryan Hagan on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment

As we do every month, we came together at the June company lunch to celebrate another month of successes, birthdays, competition winners, and the “Impact of the Month” award. It’s always a struggle to choose the one person that we feel made the biggest impact. This month was no exception. After all, we went through [...]

Microsoft WPC09 in New Orleans

by Pat Matthews on July 10, 2009 | No Comments

Kirk Averett and I are headed to New Orleans next week for the Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference. We are excited to be participating in this year’s conference and to meet with other partners and Microsoft executives. We will be there throughout the four day event and are interested in meeting others who have interests in [...]

User Experience Design In ‘The Cloud’…Literally

by Bob Black on July 9, 2009 | No Comments

There we stood with a giant white wall, markers, and notes in-hand ready to begin our sprint planning meeting. This time we weren’t in front of a whiteboard. We were surrounded by clouds. Our User Experience Design team decided to take their sprint planning meeting outdoors. For those of you not familiar with a sprint [...]

Rackspace Email & Apps Incident – July 7, 2009

by Cameron Nouri on July 7, 2009 | No Comments

Some of our customers were unable to log into their email accounts between 12:00 pm ET and 12:30pm ET today. We experienced a connectivity issue affecting around 60% of Rackspace Email and 100% of Microsoft Exchange customers. Due to a power interruption at our Dallas (DFW) data center, upstream networking devices lost power. This prevented [...]

Scrum @ Rackspace – Sprint Planning

by Rex Card on July 6, 2009 | No Comments

This is where it all begins. Sprint planning is where the team gathers to plan the next sprint’s worth of work. What is a sprint? A sprint is a fixed time period to complete defined tasks. The sprint planning meeting is where a team selects and commits to work for the next sprint. What does [...]