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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 [...]

Centralized Contact Sharing for Exchange Hybrid

by Robert McAden on August 31, 2010 | No Comments

Our customers continue to rave about our Exchange Hybrid offering. It gives them the flexibility to purchase Microsoft Exchange mailboxes for power users, while purchasing budget-friendly Rackspace Email mailboxes for everyone else—all on a single domain. And now our customers have yet another reason to love our Hybrid . . . Hybrid Contacts Our cross-platform [...]

Three-Column View: Now in Rackspace Webmail

by Manny DeJesus on August 5, 2010 | 1 Comment

With monitors getting wider and laptops/netbooks becoming more prevalent, we’re excited to introduce our latest Rackspace Webmail feature: Three-Column View. Now, users with limited vertical space can quickly read more of their email messages without scrolling. This new feature is LIVE now – so give it a try. To enable Three-Column View: > Navigate to [...]

Outlook 2010: Top 5 New Features

by Eric Boyce on August 4, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft has released the new Outlook 2010, and it is loaded with new features and improvements that will make managing your email, calendar, and social connections a breeze. Look at what’s new: Multiple Accounts Now you can send and receive through multiple accounts including Hotmail, Gmail, or just about any provider. It even supports multiple [...]

Get Into the Cloud and Avoid Data Fees

by Cameron Nouri on July 23, 2010 | No Comments

For businesses that are ready to ditch the hassles of maintaining a file server in-house, we offer Rackspace Cloud Drive. It’s basically a centralized, online hard drive, where your employees can back up, store, and share files securely via their desktop, web browser, or smart phone. When you first set up Cloud Drive, you get [...]

Hybrid Exchange Calendars now Available in Rackspace Webmail

by Nell-Marie Colman on June 16, 2010 | No Comments

We’ve just released an exciting new enhancement to our Exchange Hybrid offering that allows Rackspace Email customers to view Hosted Exchange calendars. So regardless of the platform, Hybrid users can now view or share their business calendars more effectively. Our Exchange Hybrid offering is a way for businesses to save upwards of 60% when they [...]

Empower Your Users with Archiving

by Nell-Marie Colman on June 14, 2010 | No Comments

If you’re an IT manager, you have likely encountered this scenario . . . A co-worker has lost an email—a vital, make-or-break-a-deal kind of email. You’ve helped them try every possible search combination, to no avail. It’s gone. They probably deleted it months ago. There’s nothing you can do. This time, let’s add Rackspace Archiving [...]

Introducing Microsoft SharePoint – Free To Try For Customers

by Cameron Nouri on February 10, 2010 | No Comments

Every business has to decide on ways to solve the everyday need of collaborating with others in and outside the organization. This leads to many businesses asking — “How can we help our employees be more productive?” We are interested in solving this problem. We have heard loud and clear from customers that they want [...]