We work with all kinds of companies—big ones, small ones, start-ups and the ones that defy description. They come to
Rackspace for various reasons. And they stay with us for one reason. We take care of them from day one and never stop.
Industry: E-Commerce, EDI Services
Annual Revenue: not disclosed
Number of Employees: Less Than 100
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Intensive
With the impending launch of their new architecture, Advanced Data Exchange (ADX) was hunting for a hosting partner that could help
them deliver high-end outsourced Electronic Data Interchange services to thousands of customers across hundreds of trading
communities. After it was all said and done, our IT discipline, technology, security and business processes made Rackspace their
only logical choice.
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Industry: Email Security
Annual Revenue: $14 million
Number of Employees: 65
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Managed
AppRiver needed to focus on managing and delivering email security solutions, not the servers supporting their solutions. So
they opted to partner with Rackspace to deliver the reliable systems and network infrastructure that allowed them to concentrate
on their business model required.
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Industry: Financial e-Learning
Annual Revenue: not disclosed
Number of Employees: 32
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Intensive
Collocation was no longer an option for BankersEdge, a rapidly growing company providing customizable online training for more
than 1,200 financial institutions. They could no longer afford to upkeep and administer their servers themselves when they needed
to be focused on their core business. Rackspace provided them with everything they needed, including a not so typical disaster
recovery solution.
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Industry: Special Interest Group
Annual Revenue: N/A
Number of Employees: 12
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Managed
The rapid adoption of the Bluetooth wireless standard increased the group's membership and traffic on its sites and
subsites. The group couldn't rely on their original provider and their ad hoc systems to provide the availability the
Bluetooth community demanded.
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Industry: Advertising & Marketing
Annual Revenue: $243 million
Number of Employees: 1,315
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Intensive
Many of the world's largest brands rely on Campbell-Ewald to bring their messages to the world. And the big brands'
online advertising budgets were increasing every year, which made the ad agency more than happy. What made the agency
unhappy, and their clients somewhat irate, were endless problems with site uptime and availability. By 2004, every
one had enough.
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Industry: Healthcare
Annual Revenue: $30 million
Number of Employees: 175
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Intensive
When Concuity was acquired by Trintech, the parent company wanted Concuity to move its vital infrastructure from in-house to
managed Hosting. But with such a large and robust database, Concuity needed specialized help from experienced Database
Administrators. They turned to Rackspace to ensure a seamless transfer of critical customer data to their new servers at
Rackspace.
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Industry: Web Development & Consulting
Annual Revenue: $.8 million
Number of Employees: 13
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Managed
Firefly's server infrastructure was unstable at best—at the local provider's mercy. Even after bringing in
a high-priced Linux "guru", the company and its owners still spent many sleepless nights tracking down and fixing the
unending problems. They soon realized that only a provider that guaranteed the availability and reliability of their
servers could save them.
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Industry: Media, Interactive Television
Annual Revenue: not disclosed
Number of Employees: 42
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Managed
With the growing demand of Video On Demand (VOD) advertising, Liquidus needed more reliability and scalability than colocation
could offer, as well as a fully managed email solution. Our quick and easy scaling abilities for managed configurations and the
full capabilities and support of Managed Microsoft Exchange by Rackspace allowed them to offload many of their IT burdens without
second-guessing their decision.
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Industry: Staffing Software
Annual Revenue: not disclosed
Number of Employees: not disclosed
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Managed
Already hosting their legacy product with Rackspace, MindSCOPE made the decision to put its newest web-based staffing
software in the hands of another provider. They soon realized the new provider, although cheaper, wasn't worth all the
problems MindSCOPE and their users continually experienced. When all the issues cam to ahead, the company migrated its
new product to Rackspace where they never felt like a second-class customer
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Industry: Nonprofit Software-as-a-Service Provider
Annual Sales: not disclosed
Number of Employees: 12
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Managed
On Sunday, Oct. 21, deadly wildfires began sweeping across southern California, primarily in San Diego County. By Tuesday,
Oct. 23, more than a million people had evacuated hundreds of thousands of homes. 211 San Diego's website became completely
overwhelmed by people seeking information. They contacted Pangea Foundation for help developing new software that could
handle the influx and manage the crisis. Pangea Foundation turned to Rackspace for the infrastructure.
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Industry: Multi-Channel Shopping Services
Annual Revenue: not disclosed
Number of Employees: not disclosed
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Intensive
ShopLocal's near instant success meant larger then expected online holiday shopping traffic. It also meant a rapidly
scaleable and a highly reliable infrastructure was called for. After turning to Rackspace to support Holiday overflow
traffic, ShopLocal realized that our Fanatical Support
®, expertise, responsiveness and ability to easily scale
was exactly what they needed. Soon, their hundreds of sites were all hosted at Rackspace.
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Industry: E-Commerce
Annual Revenue: not disclosed
Number of Employees: 35
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Intensive
When skinnyCorp created Threadless.com, their side project became a web phenomenon and their business was unintentionally
reinvented. But constantly maintaining servers and adding them to their old colocation solution to keep up with traffic
became unfeasible, and ultimately everything crashed. As a Rackspace customer they now have the ability to grow their
environment exponentially while they have the time to embark on more ventures.
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Industry: Interactive Video & Flex Development
Annual Revenue: not disclosed
Number of Employees: 30
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Managed, Partner Network
TStream Software provides a valuable service for any company needing to move a complex infrastructure: Migration. TStream saw
a huge opportunity for growing their business by joining Rackspace's Partner Network. But before that, they wanted to ensure
their own infrastructure, as well as that of their client's, were hosted on a fully-managed, top-tier infrastructure. Rackspace
offered TStream the best of both worlds.
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Industry: Online Education
Annual Revenue: not disclosed
Number of Employees: 30
Rackspace Hosting Solution: Intensive
More than two years of development and planning were invested into WorkshopLive before it ever hit the web. When it came time
to go live there was no question that the company's trailblazing site, with it's interactive and customized instruction methods,
didn't just need to be hosted somewhere. It needed to be hosted and expertly supported so their users could have the ultimate
music lessons, without any interruptions or delays.
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