A Look Back At 2009

There’s nothing like working at the Rack (aka Rackspace)—we work hard and we play hard. And we love being fanatical for our customers. It’s been another great year for us. Here’s a look at our year’s highlights, as well as events that impacted our industry:

• Fortune named Rackspace one of their Top 100 Companies to Work For (again!)
• In the midst of massive layoffs in 2009, we actually hired over 60 new Rackers just for our division (and we’re still hiring!)
• Our CEO, Lanham Napier, was featured on Fox Business
• Email & Apps Rackers were showered with birthday surprises
• Timo Sirainen, the creator of Dovecot, joined the Email & Apps team
• Robert Scoble joined Rackspace and launched Building43
• We crossed a major milestone—hosting over 1.6 million mailboxes
• ReadWriteWeb argued that email is fading away
• We went to SXSW and countered that email is not only alive—it is the king of social media
• Xobni , Cisco, and IBM further proved that email is still alive
• We changed our name (again!)
• We sumo wrestled to celebrate our name change
• The Colbert Report gave us 15 minutes of fame (okay, maybe it was just half a second)
• Our customers sent over 7 billion emails and received over 23 billion emails
• We blocked over 17 billion spam emails and over 500 million viruses
• We safeguarded file systems with automatic backup and easy recovery
• We challenged our neighbors at Modea to a Wii Tournament – and won!
• We helped businesses increase morale in their IT departments
• Our Free Upgrade to Snow Leopard promotion was a huge hit!
• Google won a huge deal with the City of Los Angeles, and it was a win for us all
• Apple admitted that Microsoft Exchange still runs businesses
• We made it easier to move your email to Rackspace
• We launched our very popular Live Chat Support and our new Support Site
• We introduced Sync for iPhone, Search 2.0, and Rackspace Email 7.0
• reMail announced integration with Rackspace, to make email easier to search on your iPhone

Want to help us make 2010 even better? We’d love to hear from you!