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Numbers Speak: Black Friday, Thanksgiving, Cyber Monday & Cloud Trends

by Lizetta Staplefoote on December 7, 2011 | No Comments

The holidays brings an increase in an online shopping and consequently brings an increase in cloud usage. We found it interesting to look at the numbers from the holiday shopping season released by comScore, Deloitte and Google Trend data. We’ve taken some of these numbers and published them in the following infographic – we hope [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Data Center Evolution: 1960 to 2000

by Angela Bartels on August 30, 2011 | No Comments

During the 1960s, computers were large mainframes stored in rooms– what we call a “data center” today. They were costly and businesses could rent out space on the mainframe to fulfill specific functions. During the 1980s, the computer industry experienced the boom of the microcomputer era and computers were being widely used in the office. [...]

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 [...]

Things that are NOT A GOOD IDEA

by Cameron Nouri on June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

Things that are not a good idea: (1) Using the same password for everything (2) Playing golf in a thunderstorm (3) Getting involved in a land war in Asia and (4) TYPING EMAILS IN ALL CAPS But why? There are all kinds of reasons out there, things such as, it is not good ‘netiquette’ or [...]

Rackspace Business Productivity Rx: Master Your Inbox

by Nell-Marie Colman on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment

It’s easy for our Inboxes to get out of control. Before we know it, high-priority emails can get pushed down the list—out of sight and out of mind. By implementing three common email management tools, however, you can turn your Inbox into an effective productivity tool, and reduce the time you spend sifting through email. [...]

Rackspace Hosts a GNU/Linux Legend

by Thomas Weeks on May 19, 2009 | 1 Comment

On April 20th, we hosted a very special guest from the Free Software Foundation and GNU/Linux software community. Our special guest was, none other than Richard Stallman, author of the GPL free software license and the bulk of the GNU+Linux operating system that most Linux distros rely on today (including gcc!). Stallman was in town [...]

Glimpse into Hackathon 7 Projects

by Cameron Nouri on May 9, 2009 | No Comments

Hackathon 7 is underway at the Mailtrust office and there are lots of interesting projects being worked on. I want to highlight just a few to show you they type of projects being worked on: Please Note: Projects that are showcased as a part of this event may or may not make it into the [...]