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Rackspace Voted Best Exchange Hosting Provider

by Lizetta Staplefoote on November 3, 2011 | No Comments

The Redmond Magazine 2011 Readers Choice Poll results are in, and Rackspace comes out on top. This is the first year that the poll included a category for Exchange hosting providers, and Redmond Magazine’s readers overwhelmingly gave their support to the Rackspace Hosted Exchange product with nearly 40% of the vote against five other providers. [...]

Rackspace Chairman, Graham Weston, Visits Raxburg

by Tom Duscheid on October 13, 2011 | No Comments

A couple of weeks ago, the chairman of Rackspace, Graham Weston, visited the Blacksburg, VA office, also known as Raxburg. Situated near the Blue Ridge Mountains and literally steps away from Virginia Tech, the alma mater for many in the office, Raxburg serves as a center for software and app development, in addition to housing [...]

What’s in the Rackspace Secret Sauce?

by Lizetta Staplefoote on September 21, 2011 | No Comments

According to Wayne Roberts SVP of Hybrid, and former SVP of Human Resources, Rackers are Rackspace’s “secret sauce.” What’s the recipe? In any successful recipe, certain ingredients serve as the palette for the overall taste of the dish. Even though we regard it as secret, we’ll share one way we strike the right ingredients for [...]

Rackspace Featured on CNN Money

by Tom Duscheid on September 21, 2011 | No Comments

CNN Money visited the Rackspace headquarters a few weeks ago to shoot the following video as part of their “2011 Best companies to Work For” video series. A little background on the video: After a few tough months of making improvements to Rackspace Archiving, we finally introduced Rackspace Archiving 2.0 in June. During the party [...]

Rackspace Archiving Version 2 – Built on Racker Core Values

by Tom Duscheid on September 1, 2011 | No Comments

Recently, I wrote about our excitement around the move to Rackspace Archiving Version 2. I also briefly mentioned the challenges of the product’s rapid growth. In order to move our customer base to a new version and new environment, we’ve relied on Rackspace Core Values – our special recipe that allows us to be different [...]

Rackspace Archiving Releases Version 2

by Tom Duscheid on August 30, 2011 | No Comments

Imagine you’re the mayor of a small town where population grows from zero to the size of a small city in under two years. We faced this challenging, yet exciting, reality with Rackspace Archiving. Our user base grew phenomenally in a short time forcing us to find innovative ways to keep up with growth effectively [...]

Mac Users: Upgrade to Outlook for Mac 2011

by Lizetta Staplefoote on March 6, 2011 | No Comments

Outlook® for Mac 2011 is now available to Hosted Exchange customers at Rackspace! This version replaces Entourage and gives Mac users a uniquely Apple experience with comparable functionality to the popular Outlook for Windows program. What You Can Expect: Calendar: Unlike the separate Mail and iCal applications native to Mac, Outlook’s Mac version displays [...]

Top 10 Moments for Rackspace Email and Apps

by Ashleigh Davis on December 22, 2010 | No Comments

#10 – Rackspace’s Very Own Lanham Napier Listed as One of Forbes Most Powerful CEOs 40 and Under While we all know he’s great Forbes made it official. Lanham was listed as one of the most powerful CEOs at the age of 39. Walking around the offices of Rackspace you wouldn’t think he knew it [...]

Raising the Bar on Fanatical Support in the Cloud

by Ashleigh Davis on December 14, 2010 | No Comments

This news is taken from the original announcement from Lew Moorman on the Rackspace Cloud Blog. Today Rackspace is defining a new category of hosting – Managed Cloud – much as we did a decade ago when we led the way in Managed Hosting. Our first service offering in this new category is Cloud Servers [...]

Reseller Rewards – It’s Time to Sellebrate!

by Lizetta Staplefoote on December 6, 2010 | No Comments

How does a trip to Maui sound? Ask David Miller of Dyrect Media Group, Ltd., Rackspace Reseller and winner of the Sellebrate in Maui contest. In conjunction with Microsoft, we launched a contest back in April to stimulate reseller sales with the chance of winning a six-day trip to Maui. David, and his fellow Rackspace [...]