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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 [...]

What Does That Mean?

by Lizetta Staplefoote on December 7, 2010 | No Comments

Every new era of computing comes with its own set of acronyms. Some are evident and others could use a bit of explanation. Here’s a list of today’s most common acronyms, what they mean, and what that means to you. API = Application Programming Interface What Is It? A system that lets developers build customized [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mailtrust at Fork & Cork this Weekend

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

Mailtrust, a division of Rackspace, is sponsoring the first annual Fork and Cork in Blacksburg, VA (where our headquarters are located), this Saturday from 11am to 6pm. This is a great way for our employees to get into the community to talk to other professionals about what we do. It’s going to be a day [...]

We are headed to SXSW – Are you?

by Nell-Marie Colman on March 4, 2009 | No Comments

A couple of us here at Mailtrust are getting ready to pack our bags and head out to the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. We’ll be joining others from Rackspace and Mosso to talk about our vision for cloud computing and join in the conversation that ensues. We’re planning on attending a ton [...]

An invitation to Modea

by Nell-Marie Colman on February 26, 2009 | No Comments

Yesterday some of our employees issued an obscure message to our Blacksburg neighbor and creative design partner, Modea. The message read only… “We invite Modea to meet us at their office on Tuesday, March 3rd at 4:00pm ET to take part in a special presentation.” To be continued…

Birthday surprises

by Nell-Marie Colman on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment

WARNING – Mailtrust reserves the right to decorate you or your desk with toilet paper, paper shreds or other festive decorations on your birthday. Don’t worry though, it’s all in good fun and we’ll enjoy laughing about it together. Want your desk covered in toilet paper and paper shreds on your birthday? We’re always looking [...]