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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 [...]

3 Quick Reasons Why Internships at Rackspace Are Worth It

by Drew Reburn on September 6, 2011 | No Comments

Rackspace has acquired reputation as a great place to work full-time, but its summer internships are nothing to sneeze at. Here are three reasons why: Real Responsibilities: When people hear “intern,” they usually think of a fresh-faced youngster working hard to make sure all the real employees get their coffee just the way they like [...]

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 [...]

Hosting Companies Unite to Provide Relief for Haiti

by Cameron Nouri on January 20, 2010 | No Comments

Reposted from our company-wide blog: Since the January 12 earthquake devastated Haiti, there has been a critical shortage of supplies, manpower and assistance to help the Haitian people through their crisis. Beginning today, the hosting community is coming together as an industry to do our part to help in the relief effort by launching a [...]

A Look Back At 2009

by Nell-Marie Colman on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment

There’s nothing like working at the Rack (aka Rackspace)—we work hard and we play hard. And we love being fanatical for our customers. It’s been another great year for us. Here’s a look at our year’s highlights, as well as events that impacted our industry: Fortune named Rackspace one of their Top 100 Companies to [...]

Rackspace Listens!…no really, we’re serious

by Michael Ferranti on November 12, 2009 | No Comments

We’ve got a Nintendo Wii in the break room here at the Rackspace Blacksburg, VA office. We’ve even got a wicked ax for rocking out to Guitar Hero. But the reason that everyone was gathered in there yesterday was to watch our CEO, Lanham Napier, on Fox Business News. He told the Rackspace story to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]