The Rackspace engineering groups have been busy in our data centers. We’re growing and improving our facilities every day.

As noted in our recent press release, we have partnered with DuPont Fabros to expand our footprint in Northern Virginia. This partnership gives us access to a world-class facility that is backed by some of the smartest engineers and operators in the business. More importantly, it will give our customers more options for multi-site and DR deployments. We plan to have this new facility online this summer.

We’ve also been hard at work on our DFW data center. We recently opened an expansion that adds just over 22,000 sq ft of raised floor and raises the total capacity of the site to more than 75,000 sq ft. The work in Dallas goes well beyond just adding floor space. We’ve been adding capacity to all of our infrastructure as well. We have added 16 Megawatts of generator capacity and have nearly completed an overhaul of the HVAC system that more than doubles capacity and leverages new, more energy efficient chillers.

These new developments, when combined with our London and Hong Kong facilities launched in 2008, ensure that we will continue to provide the flexibility and capacity our growing customer base requires. They also provide a modern, robust platform for deploying our expanding set of cloud offerings. Exciting times!

On February 10th, just four days before Valentine’s Day, one of our customers, Golden State Communications, showed us the love and posted an amazing blog post about our service.  This all goes back to our goal to become one of the World’s Greatest Service Companies.

Read the full post here.

Erik Carlin wrote a great post on the Mosso blog comparing the cloud storage offerings from Rackspace (Cloud Files) and Amazon (S3). Here’s a quick excerpt:

The cloud is advantageous for many reasons and both Rackspace/Mosso and Amazon offer cloud storage solutions.  We are frequently asked to compare Cloud Files enabled with Limelight’s CDN with S3 and CloudFront.  Many of the questions we are asked revolve around cost and performance (particularly CDN).  These are very quantifiable metrics so I thought I’d share with you the results of some comparative analysis we’ve done.

Read the entire post here: A Quantitative Comparison of Rackspace and Amazon Cloud Storage Solutions