Enterprise Organizations Seeking Greater Performance, Flexibility and
Control Can Benefit from New Managed Hosting Offerings
SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2009--
Rackspace®
Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the world’s leader in hosting and cloud
computing, is enhancing its portfolio of services designed for the needs
of large enterprises with a focus on managed storage, disaster recovery
and application-level hosting. These new services are designed to meet
the enterprise-grade needs of large organizations across all industries
with a focus on performance, flexibility and control.
“Rackspace’s enterprise solutions can allow our customers to respond
quickly to market changes, yet stay mindful of risky capital
expenditures and rapidly evolving technologies,” said Taylor Rhodes, VP
& GM of Enterprise
Services for Rackspace. “We evolve our enterprise offerings based on
customer feedback. They’re telling us they need a partner to provide
important but non-strategic functions, and they want to buy them as
services rather than pouring their own capital and IT resources into
them. We are now able to offer our most complex customers solutions
designed for their storage and data replication needs.”
Storage and Disaster Recovery Solutions
Regulatory compliance, on-line transaction processing and rich media are
just a few of the factors driving an exponential demand for enterprise-class
storage and replication services. To meet these needs, Rackspace
recently began offering dedicated SAN (dSAN) and dedicated NAS (dNAS)
enterprise-class managed storage solutions.
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dSAN: Highly scalable storage, leveraging Dell® EMC® CX4 Array
technology, is ideal for databases and high transaction applications.
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dNAS: High capacity solution, built on NetApp® technology for
media rich applications and sites and large volume file level storage.
Both provide high performance, flexible and fully managed storage
services that are customized for the mission critical data assurance
needs of the Enterprise.
Rackspace has recently launched its Disaster
Recovery Services portfolio. The ability to recover and reinstate
mission-critical data is a necessity for most any enterprise, especially
in the event of an unplanned regional disaster or outage. Rackspace
offers solutions to meet diverse customer needs and budgets.
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Host Based Replication — Data Center to Data Center
replication can rapidly and affordably recover critical data in the
event of a disaster. Host Based Replication is managed by a dedicated
team of certified DR professionals and includes a free DNS failover
service.
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Enterprise Replication Services — Data Center to Data Center
replication and rapid failover for mission critical data stored using
Rackspace dNAS services. Enterprise Replication Services is powered by
NetApp NAS and SnapMirror® technologies and is customized and managed
by a team of certified NAS engineers.
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Professional Services — Rackspace has a dedicated Professional
Services team that delivers customized DR solutions for enterprise
customers. For customers seeking a customized, end-to-end DR solution,
Rackspace offers Professional Services capabilities that include
application, database and full server failover.
Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Solutions
Collaboration and email are critical to most all businesses, and the
applications required to deliver these services to the enterprise are
growing increasingly complex. Rackspace Messaging
& Collaboration Solutions can provide a better alternative to
managing Exchange and SharePoint environments in-house. Our Microsoft
Exchange and SharePoint (Dedicated) solutions can allow customers to
free up resources while improving the uptime and performance in their
critical messaging and collaboration environments.
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Microsoft Exchange 2007-Dedicated and SharePoint-Dedicated:
Rackspace has enhanced its dedicated application hosting offerings,
including Microsoft Exchange 2007 and SharePoint. The service
offerings include the design, deployment, hosting, support, and
administration of Microsoft Exchange and/or SharePoint on dedicated
servers by a team of experts.
For more information about Rackspace managed hosting offerings, please
visit: http://www.rackspace.com/solutions/managed_hosting/index.php.
About Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace
Hosting is the world’s leader in hosting and cloud computing and is
ranked #43 on FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to work for in the
United States for 2009. Rackspace provides its customers with Fanatical
Support® in delivering their portfolio of hosted IT services,
including Managed Hosting, Cloud Hosting and Email and Apps. For more
information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve
risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties
materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of
Rackspace Hosting could differ materially from those expressed or
implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All
statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that
could be deemed forward-looking statements, including any statements
concerning expected development, performance or market acceptance
associated with our products or services, including managed storage,
disaster recovery and application-level hosting products and services;
anticipated operational and financial benefits from our products and
services; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of
assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and
assumptions include the possibility that expected benefits from our
products or services, including managed storage, disaster recovery and
application-level hosting products and services may not materialize
because the product or service is not generally accepted in the
marketplace, which could occur due to certain factors including (i) a
failure to market the product or service cost effectively, differentiate
the product or service from competitive products or communicate
differentiations effectively, (ii) the reliability, quality or
compatibility associated with the product or service, (iii) changes in
technology which adversely affect the benefits of the product or
service, (iv) slowdowns in the general economy or technology industry
that impact consumer spending habits, (v) internal strategy decisions
that impact the product or service, and (vi) and other risks that are
described in Rackspace Hosting’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June
30, 2009, filed with the SEC on August 13, 2009. Except as required by
law, Rackspace Hosting assumes no obligation to update these
forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual
results could differ materially from those anticipated in these
forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in
the future.
Source: Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace Hosting
Rachel Ferry, 210-312-3732
Rachel.ferry@rackspace.com
