Bloggers

Andrew Hickey is chief blog editor at Rackspace, a role in which he helps Rackers, customers and partners tell their stories. Andrew comes to Rackspace following many years as a journalist, more than half of which were spent covering high tech and Rackspace. When not writing, Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife and his dog, and spinning punk rock vinyl. If you have an idea for the Rackspace Blog, track down Andrew at andrew.hickey@rackspace.com.

As Rackspace President, Lew Moorman is instrumental in driving strategic planning, product development and new business initiatives for Rackspace, including cloud computing technologies. He is also....

Lanham Napier is CEO of Rackspace and an unbridled enthusiast for creating the service culture that drives Rackspace's Fanatical Support philosophy. Napier has been recognized by Forbes as one o....

John McKenna loves startups and is a Space Cowboy with the Rackspace Startup Program. He also crafts customer stories and produces really cool videos for the Customer Reference Program.

Lizetta Staplefoote is a Rackspace Marketing Copywriter with a decade of experience writing about small business challenges for healthcare, real estate, and technology. Her passion is researching a....

Garrett Heath is a Racker who works in Rackspace Marketing and has had experience as a technical project manager in the Cloud. He enjoys writing about how the cloud is spurring innovation for start....

Tarun Bhatti is senior product marketing manager for the cloud computing portfolio, including Managed Cloud, Cloud Sites, Cloud Monitoring and Rackspace Service Registry. He holds an MBA in entrepr....

Jim Battenberg is a Cloud Evangelist for The Rackspace Cloud. His time in “the cloud” dates back to the late 90’s when the shared hosting, dedicated hosting and ASP markets first began implem....

Andrea Michnik is a social media marketer with Rackspace, which means she dabbles with Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and other social networks every day. She has experience in higher education, techn....

Wayne Walls is an OpenStack Developer Advocate and Scrabble junkie working for the Rackspace Cloud. He works with cloud developers to lower the barriers of entry to OpenStack, evangelizes the OpenS....

Leezia Dhalla joined Rackspace in January 2013. As a Corporate Communications team member, Leezia blogs, creates multimedia and builds presentations.

Jim Curry is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Rackspace’s Private Cloud business, which supports and operates OpenStack-based private clouds in any data center worldwide. He joine....

Josh leads product development for the Cloud Platform Product Line where he is responsible for product management, engineering, and operations for the Cloud Sites, Load Balancing, Database and DNS ....

Tomaz Muraus is a Racker and a project lead for the Rackspace Service R....

After seven years as an Enterprise Solution Engineer at Rackspace, Paul joined the marketing team. Having more than 20 years of IT technical, sales and support experience, Paul is passionate about ....

Shane has over 15 years of experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past seven years, he has been working exclusively with....

Brent does product marketing for Rackspace Managed Virtualization. He hails from Southern California, but currently lives in San Antonio. ....

Scott Sanchez is Director of Strategy at Rackspace and a recognized name in the cloud computing space. A Racker since 2011, Scott leads the .

Jeremy Roberts is a Racker in the Marketing department who has had several roles in the Online, SMB and Enterprise marketing segments. He is responsible for developing new prospect generating progr....

Sameer is a passionate entrepreneur and innovative marketing leader with more than a decade of online marketing experience. Sameer started his online marketing career with a consulting role in 2001....

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Kevin Minnick is an entrepreneur, product manager, software developer, learner and achiever. Minnick was a co-founder of Blacksburg, Va. start-up Webmail.us, a business-class email hosting provi....

Lisa Larson is the Vice President of Enterprise Technical Sales for Rackspace. She has spent 20-plus years in IT, Professional Services and technical sales working with customers of all sizes with....

As Vice President of Private Cloud Certification Programs, Paul is responsible for building an enterprise ready computing platform based on Rackspace Private Cloud Software. Paul started his car....

Waqas Makhdum is an experienced technologist with over 10 years of experience in enterprise software and web technologies. In his current role, he is responsible for product partnerships for Racksp....

Brian has 10-plus years in developing world-class product and transformational architectures for Fortune 1000 companies. He has developed secure IT architectures, solutions and best practices for a....

Ken works to make the cloud better through new services and features. He’s worked on cloud monitoring as a service and is in the process of developing exciting new features for the Rackspace Open....

Alan Bush is a founding member & architect of Rackspace's Cloud Launch Team. Before Rackspace, Alan helped create the Stevie Award winning onboarding program for Central Desktop - a really ....

Father of two, mother of none. Rob has lived across the globe.

Alexander Haislip is a Rackspace Thought Leader and the author of .

Sameer Satyam joined Rackspace as a Product Manager in September 2012, focusing on Cloud Networks and the OpenStack Quantum project. Before joining Rackspace, he held a wide variety of roles includ....

Adam Dawson is a Private Cloud Strategist at Rackspace. Adam joined Rackspace in 2013 after working on Dell's cloud computing team and completing his MBA at the University of Michigan.

Jeff has been working with SharePoint since the early 2003 product year and is the architect and builder of Rackspace’s SharePoint support offering. Jeff has designed and installed over 150 Share....

Paul is a Private Cloud Architect focusing on Enterprise Cloud Solutions. He joined Rackspace in 2003 to focus on Linux Engineering and customer support.

Tony Campbell joined Rackspace in April of 2003 and currently serves as Rackspace's Director of Training and Certification. Tony and his team are responsible for educating Rackers and the public on....

Kat Hicks, DBA extraordinaire, works at Rackspace in beautiful San Antonio, TX, and she’s been databasing for over 12 years. MS SQL has been her primary focus, from 6.5 all the way through 2012.

Egle Sigler is a Private Cloud Architect, who started working at Rackspace in 2008. She was one of the first to receive Rackspace OpenStack certification.

Jason leads the systems operations teams at Rackspace for Cloud Databases, Sites and DNS. He started his career at Rackspace over nine years ago and has been instrumental in building highly engaged....

Russell Haering is the product manager of Rackspace Cloud Monitoring, and moonlights as an undercover engineer shipping new monitoring features. Since his days as at Cloudkick he has made a mission....

Jonathan Bumba serves as the Global Sales Director for the Rackspace open cloud. He is responsible for the sales and deployments of large, complex OpenStack cloud architectures in any datacenter.

Lillie Hejl is a Cloud Engineering Manager who is passionate about Racker culture and building strong engineering teams since joining the first Cloud team in Austin in 2009. She manages a dispersed....

Pantheon is an all-in-one Drupal platform and a Rackspace partner. As Pantheon’s Co-Founder and Developer Evangelist, Josh Keonig believes the clues to Drupal’s destiny are in its DNA. The s....

Rich has 20 years of leadership and enterprise information technology experience, including application development and operational roles with startups, consulting companies, retailers and technolo....

Chris Johnson is a Product Engineer at Rackspace where he helps define, build and test our latest software and products Previous to Rackspace, Chris served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force doing....

Wil Sensenderfer is the Technical Community Manager for the Rackspace Open Cloud Community. He joined Rackspace in 2004, initially as a contractor and became a Racker in 2005.

Ben has been working in the software industry for more than 10 years and has acquired a proven track record of overseeing projects from conception to completion. At TruQC, he’s the go-to guy for ....

Alan Perkins is Rackspace's Director of Product and Technology, Asia Pacific. Based in Sydney, he is responsible for driving continued growth and technological innovation in the region.

Ryan Haug is focused on customer experience design at Rackspace. Ryan has spent most of his time at Rackspace working in corporate strategy thinking about pricing and the competitive landscape for ....

Decoa Parker is a Product Marketing Manager at Rackspace..

Scott Whitright has a wealth of IT industry experience launching products and programs for startups to Fortune 100 companies. He is a member of the Pragmatic Marketing community and currently leads....

Even though Duncan started hacking at the (then) early age of 11, he didn't start professionally coding until 1996. Within a few years of discovering Python (1999), he was hacking on asynchronous a....