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Archive for October, 2009

Congratulations Google, Your Win in Los Angeles is a Win for Us All

by Michael Ferranti on October 28, 2009 | No Comments

Congratulations Google from all of us at Rackspace. Los Angeles, California is going with Google Apps for its new city-wide email solution. This is a big win for you and for Los Angeles. We’re your competitor. We believe that we beat you on price and on service. But on the point that moving email and [...]

Google Study Investigates Perceptions about the Cloud

by Trevor Winters on October 28, 2009 | No Comments

Google has recently conducted a study that confirms what we are seeing in the marketplace. More and more companies are moving to the cloud, even as cost is cited as a barrier by those resistant to change: “Cost or budget issues were the primary factor reported as a barrier to adoption.” Reviewing Google’s study, readers [...]

Email in the Cloud: There’s real money to save says Gartner

by Michael Ferranti on October 22, 2009 | No Comments

We’ve been arguing for a while now on our blog that for SMBs (small to medium sized businesses), moving your email to the cloud is a good idea. It saves money, helps make IT staff more productive, and increases reliability in general for the businesses that drive our economy. But we want to help you [...]

Scheduling Meetings in Outlook with Rackspace Email

by Rex Card on October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

With the smell of freshly brewed coffee in the air, I open up Microsoft Outlook and head straight to my calendar to start scheduling meetings. Being a technical project manager, part of my job includes scheduling meetings—and in any given session, I easily schedule 5+ meetings for 15+ folks. When scheduling a meeting, it is, [...]

Headed to Gartner Symposium IT Expo & Spiceworld 2009 – Are you?

by Tom Thaddeus on October 16, 2009 | No Comments

We are always interested in talking to IT professionals about their business IT needs and how they provide solutions for their business users. We want to learn how we can continue to develop valuable services that are relevant to the needs of businesses today and the IT staffs that support them. That’s why, during the [...]

How Happy is Your IT Staff?

by Michael Ferranti on October 15, 2009 | No Comments

As companies continue to need to lay off workers, the workload for the remaining lucky few has increased markedly. The recession is forcing us all to work smarter and faster, and IT is the natural place for businesses to look for ways to make that happen. It’s no surprise then that average hours worked per [...]

Introducing Notes! Now in Rackspace Webmail

by Manny DeJesus on October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment

Our CTO, Bill Boebel, is pretty damn busy. He runs from meeting to meeting with a laptop, a notepad, pens and his BlackBerry. Yet, somehow, his thoughts are rarely all in one place (shocking). So for Bill, and the millions of other super-busy people, we’ve created Notes! Notes is a new app now included with [...]

One Email Outage Pays for a Year of Rackspace Email Hosting

by Cameron Nouri on October 8, 2009 | 1 Comment

Steven Ng, Vice President of Professional Services for Acumetrics came to Rackspace after a hard drive failure took their email down for a week and reallocated Steven’s time from billable work to fixing email. Due to a failed backup, they also lost a week’s worth of email. By outsourcing their email to Rackspace, they now [...]

IBM:  Another Big ISV Tries Their Hand at SaaS

by Lew Moorman on October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment

Last week, IBM announced their move to offer high volume cloud based email services. The offer, called LotusLive, is intended to counter the move to a new set of online offers like Google Apps, and our own Rackspace Email service. IBM is the latest in a long line of traditional enterprise software companies feeling the [...]

[Email Tip] Where did that URL go again?

by Korey Mercier on October 5, 2009 | No Comments

There’s nothing more non-productive than digging through emails looking for that all-important link that someone sent you a while back, when you actually need it now. That’s what Bookmarks are for, right? But what if you’re not at your own computer, or you’re like me and you use several computers with multiple browsers? As it [...]