Boston, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 5, 2008 - The inaugural Web Experience Forum, will be launched with exclusive media sponsorship from Internet Retailer magazine and other web experience vendors, by web management services, Gomez, Inc.

The Web Experience Forum is a two-and-a-half-day conference that will take place Oct. 14-16, 2008 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers in Boston, Mass. The first-of-its-kind event synthesizes all aspects of the web experience - business, sociological and technical - with an eye on perhaps the biggest factor affecting experience: web application performance.

Attendees, including both business and information technology (IT) executives, will explore the challenges, processes and technologies that shape the web experience, gaining new understanding and perspective from some of the best thinkers and practitioners of the web experience. Lou Carbone, author of the best-selling ”Clued In, How to Keep Customers Coming Back Again and Again,” is a featured speaker at the event. Mr. Carbone is founder and CEO of the Experience Engineering research firm and has been a leader in the experience management revolution for over two decades.

Mr. Carbone will be joined by industry experts from Crutchfield, New York Life Insurance, Trend Micro, Wachovia and other companies, to explore the many perspectives of the web experience including: Best practices - lessons from the web experience frontier The technology ecosystem of the web experience The effects of globalization and communities on the web experience The economic imperatives of a good web experience How to build a web experience centric culture When buyers react to the web experience - how to measure, analyze and act Industry professionals are invited to propose first-rate presentations on the newest and best practices in all aspects of web experience management.

William Agush, Vice President, Marketing, Gomez, Inc. noted, ”Until now, there hasn’t been a single industry event that comprehensively addresses all facets of the web experience lifecycle. By underwriting the first Web Experience Forum, Gomez’s goal is to help create a venue where executives and experts across the entire web experience management spectrum can meet and learn from one another in a vendor-neutral environment.”

Rackspace Hosting, Clickability, Inc. and Genuine Interactive are sponsors of the inaugural event. More about the Web Experience Forum, including the conference agenda, venue, and other details can be found at www.webexperienceforum.com.

To learn more, please visit: www.webexperienceforum.com.

San Antonio, Texas - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 17, 2008 - Web hosting services provider, Rackspace Managed Hosting, has placed on IDG’S Computerworld annual list of Best Places to Work in Information Technology.

Kip Miles, Vice President of Information Technology noted, ”As a service company, Rackspace’s IT department is in a very unique position. To continuously deliver Fanatical Support to our customers, we must strive to develop and support solutions that ensure our customer’s applications are always available, every day, every minute. Our IT Rackers constantly amaze me with how they handle this responsibility. This award reinforces that, while they work hard and achieve amazing results, they have also created a great work environment where they feel empowered and rewarded.”

Since 1994, Computerworld’s annual ”Best Places to Work in IT” feature has ranked the top 100 work environments for technology professionals, based on a comprehensive questionnaire regarding company offerings in categories such as benefits, diversity, career development, training and retention. In addition, this year Computerworld surveyed more than 31,000 IT workers for the list, and their responses factored heavily in determining the rankings.

Rackspace has a long history of being ranked as a ‘great place to work.’ That honor is always tracked back to the people who are hired to deliver Fanatical Support. Rackspace was built around a culture that ensures it hires friendly, service-oriented people to all departments, who care about customer service. Rackspace maintains open communications with all employees through quarterly Open Book meetings and Town Hall meetings. All executives have open door policies and managers encourage the growth and development of Rackers through internal and external training courses and certifications. Rackers are rewarded in a number of ways, including payment of quarterly bonuses, use of the Rackspace BMW, weekend stays at the Chairman’s river house, or by receiving the highest honor at Rackspace, the Straightjacket Award.

Scot Finnie, Editor in Chief of Computerworld remarked, ”The competitive edge sought by the best and smartest companies is no longer information technology itself, it’s the people behind the technology. The new competitive edge is finding and retaining the very best people to chart and implement your IT strategy and companies like Rackspace have built their entire culture around the people that deliver that technology. After all, IT has permeated the business processes of almost every department of virtually every enterprise.”

Computerworld is a leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld’s award-winning weekly publication, Computerworld.com Web site, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world’s largest (40+ edition) global IT media network. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards, including Folio Magazine’s 2006 Gold EDDIE Award for the best technology/computing magazine, the 2004 and 2006 Magazine of the Year Award, and 2006 Best Overall Web Publication from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). Computerworld leads the industry with a print audience of 1,252,000 readers each week (IntelliQuest CIMS Spring 2006) and an online audience of over 2 million unique monthly visitors (Omniture).

Computerworld is a business unit of International Data Group (IDG), the world’s leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG’s online network includes more than 450 web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment and video games worldwide. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG’s lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers.

International Data Group (IDG) is the world’s leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG’s online network includes more than 450 Web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment, and video games worldwide. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG’s lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers.

IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including Macworld Conference and Expo, LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), DEMO, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 900 IDC analysts in more than 90 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends.

Rackspace Hosting delivers hosted IT systems and computing to businesses of all sizes, providing hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Customers can receive benefits such as higher quality, lower cost and better performance from Rackspace’s vast knowledge of industry best-practices. Because Rackspace removes the burden of IT systems maintenance and management, customers can focus on key areas that differentiate their business. Rackspace’s portfolio of hosted services includes managed hosting (www.rackspace.com), email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com). Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best companies to work for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 26, 2008 - Web hosting company, Rackspace Managed Hosting, has partnered with Internet and IT services provider, IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd, to offer new online solution services.

IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd provides all types of Information Technology (IT) services to clients internationally. IDS Logic offers web based services such as web hosting, web designing, offshore software development and marketing on the Internet. The company plans to adopt Rackspace’s website updating mandate, and is based in Noida NCR (National Capital Region, New Delhi), India with its sales and support teams in the USA and UK.

The main impetus behind the new product is to eliminate business management issues pertaining to web hosting services in India. While there are many IT companies that assure many benefits such as high uptime, bandwidth and disk space, IDS Logic attempts to distinguish itself by offering a full service approach for IT requirements.

IDS Logic, in joint collaboration with Rackspace, has launched shared web hosting services in India. The hosting service provides a 100 percent money back guarantee for one month of its managed shared hosting service. It also guarantees clients with 100% uptime for websites, along with spam checking as well as virus scanning. The new service is geared toward traffic, and easier navigation.

The company plans to deliver its services to both traditionaly bricks and mortar businesses, as well as more complex service providers.

IDS Logic operates from its offshore development centre located in Noida, India and with sales and support partner offices in UK and USA IDS LOGIC Pvt. Ltd. D-40, IInd Floor, Sector-6 Noida (Delhi NCR) 201301 U.P, INDIA.

IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd is a web based solutions provider to global clients. IDS Logic operates from its offshore development centre located in Noida, India and with sales and support partner offices in UK and USA IDS LOGIC Pvt. Ltd. D-40, IInd Floor, Sector-6 Noida (Delhi NCR) 201301 U.P, INDIA.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. By integrating the industry’s best technologies and delivering them as services, Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Because Rackspace removes the burden of infrastructure maintenance and management, customers can focus on their core business. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso (www.mosso.com) cloud computing platform and Mailtrust (www.mailtrust.com) a provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

To learn more about IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd, please visit: www.idslogic.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

Blacksburg, Virginia - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 3, 2008 - Managed web hosting and IT services firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting’s Mailtrust solution, has deployed the Cloudmark Authority for Spam Protection.

Over 100,000 business hosting customers utilize Mailtrust, which has deployed the Cloudmark Authority plug-in for Apache SpamAssassin to improve message filtering accuracy and boost system performance. Cloudmark’s comprehensive message filtering solution, combined with Mailtrust’s proven hosted business-class e-mail services, gives demanding business customers unmatched messaging capabilities, higher e-mail service quality and a markedly improved user experience.

Pat Matthews, President of Mailtrust noted, ”Mailtrust’s mission is to be the best hosted business-class e-mail provider and partnering with Cloudmark furthers this goal. With spam making up more than 95 percent of all e-mail traffic, it is important for us to provide our customers with a reliable solution that stops unwanted e-mail traffic before it impacts internal messaging infrastructure and storage. Also, Cloudmark’s automatic threat protection has enabled us to refocus engineering and administrative resources away from maintenance issues in order to be able to focus more on our customers’ needs.”

After evaluating several solutions, Mailtrust selected the Cloudmark Authority plug-in for Apache SpamAssassin because of the following: — Improved Filtering Accuracy — Cloudmark rapidly detects all categories of spam and phishing with more than 98 percent accuracy and near zero false positives. High accuracy is maintained by an in-memory cache of the latest threat fingerprints, which is updated by Cloudmark every 30-60 seconds. — Fingerprinting Technology and Real-time Feedback — Cloudmark combines Advanced Message Fingerprinting with real-time reporting from a network of more than 600 million trusted reporters around the world. Mailtrust’s customers join Cloudmark’s Global Threat Network and are empowered to report any unwanted message reaching their inbox. This unique combination of technology and user reporting enables Cloudmark to detect new threat outbreaks hours or days ahead of competitive solutions. — Reduced Server Load, CPU Usage and Power Consumption — Cloudmark’s fingerprinting technology requires significantly less computing resources than alternative filtering solutions. With Cloudmark, Mailtrust was able to cut the number of filtering servers it used by 50 percent. Savings on spam filtering infrastructure, power consumption and administration are passed on to customers in the form of improved service and lower service charges.

Cloudmark also integrates seamlessly with Mailtrust’s new integrated control panel, which allows customers to control both Exchange and Noteworthy e-mail services from one central location. Users can now also manage their Cloudmark spam settings through Mailtrust’s new control panel, thereby enabling a single domain with both types of mailboxes and one shared set of spam controls.

Jamie de Guerre, Chief Technology Officer of Cloudmark remarked, ”The Cloudmark Authority plug-in for SpamAssassin offers a seamless way for e-mail hosting companies like Mailtrust to benefit from greatly improved filtering accuracy and performance without having to change their system architecture. Mailtrust is known in the hosting industry as an innovator and a leader in customer satisfaction. We look forward to working with Mailtrust to help deliver on its promise of providing the most secure, reliable and cost-effective business e-mail service in the market today.”

Cloudmark Authority is an out-of-the box solution, which integrates with virtually any Apache SpamAssassin environment. Like Apache SpamAssassin, Cloudmark Authority is compatible with a wide variety of e-mail systems, including procmail, sendmail, Postfix, qmail and many others. Already in use at more than 100 of the world’s largest service providers and mobile operator networks, Cloudmark Authority is uniquely architected to block spam, phishing and virus threats on virtually any communications platform. Backed by a unique and powerful combination of Advanced Message Fingerprinting and real-time feedback from the Cloudmark Global Threat Network, Cloudmark Authority is able to rapidly detect even the most advanced messaging threats, including mutating spam and phishing attacks.

Mailtrust, a division of Rackspace, provides more than 100,000 small, medium, and geographically dispersed companies with business-class email hosting. The company manages and maintains the email service and hosting infrastructure, freeing up IT resources and eliminating the need for customers to purchase email-related hardware, software, and security services. The company’s mission critical email systems are housed in Rackspace’s carrier-grade data centers to help ensure uptime. Founded in 1999, and acquired by Rackspace in 2007, Mailtrust is headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia and was recently named the 217th fastest growing, privately held company in America by Inc. Magazine.

Cloudmark, Inc. is a global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, delivering the most accurate, high-performance and comprehensive real-time spam, virus and phishing protection for fixed, mobile and social networks. Cloudmark patented solutions combine Advanced Message Fingerprinting technology based on innovative, highly efficient algorithms and a Global Threat Network consisting of trusted reporters in every country across the globe to provide security intelligence and filtering at all points of the messaging infrastructure. Cloudmark solutions protect more than 600 million mailboxes for the world’s largest service provider networks, including over 75 percent of major ISPs in the United States and Japan. Cloudmark’s customers include EarthLink, Comcast, Cablevision, Charter Communications, Cox Communications, NTT OCN and Swisscom as well as leading hosting providers, Mailtrust, Synacor, NuVox and others. Cloudmark is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London, Tokyo, Beijing and Hong Kong.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes, including hosting specialization and expertise, delivering services as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

To learn more about Mailtrust’s messaging security solution, please visit: www.mailtrust.com/noteworthy/spam-filtering.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

Waltham, Massachusetts - (The Hosting News) - April 28, 2008 - Managed web hosting and IT services firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting, has entered into an agreement with residential property valuation and risk management firm, Pro-Teck Services.

Under the terms of the agreement, Pro-Teck will utilize Rackspace’s Intensive Hosting to support the company’s ProValue platform that requires 24×7 availability to service today’s rapidly evolving financial markets.

Luc Levensohn, Vice President Security and Infrastructure, Pro-Teck Services noted, ”We did a lot of due diligence and determined Rackspace could provide us with the highest level of disaster recovery and system redundancy to protect our clients information while providing the scalability and capacity to support our growth.”

Pro-Teck’s ProValue connects many of the world’s largest financial institutions with the real estate data, modeling and expertise they need to effectively manage their real estate collateral. The system requires robust performance to support a large number of simultaneous connections as vendor and client partners throughout the United States process thousands of daily transactions in real time. The platform also provides extensive archiving, retrieval and data stream capabilities critical to its client’s business operations.

Glenn Reinus, Senior Vice President of worldwide sales, Rackspace remarked, ”Because Pro-Teck’s IT infrastructure was Microsoft-based, they found Rackspace’s Windows expertise and Microsoft Gold Certification a true advantage. Intensive Hosting takes a consultative approach with our enterprise customers. Through our dedicated team of experts, we are able to build a deep working relationship, effectively becoming an integral component of customers’ IT departments. We work alongside Pro-Teck as an extension of its IT department and work diligently for our customer’s success.”

Rackspace’s Intensive Hosting provides Pro-Teck with a fully-managed hosting solution. With primary and failover server locations, advanced custom monitoring services, managed backup and storage, and Windows 2003 Enterprise database services, Pro-Teck relies on Rackspace’s 24/7/365 Fanatical Support(TM) demanded by today’s financial markets.

Last month, Rackspace announced two high-level appointments - Florian Schiebl as European Business Director, and Tarquin Bellinger as Sales Director, to reinforce its European operations. Prior to joining Rackspace, Schiebl was Managing Director of iPass, being responsible for the Central and Eastern European regions. He has also held positions at Bertelsmann, Compaq, Siemens, COLT Telecom and MFN.

Mr. Bellinger has joined Rackspace to lead the Sales and Solutions Engineering team. His previous position was at BT, where he led the company’s 21st Century Network business development programme. Prior to that, he led Cable and Wireless’ global services business division focusing on financial markets, based in New York.

Established in 1977, Pro-Teck Services works with Mortgage Lenders, Mortgage Servicers, Secondary Market Investors, Capital Markets and Property and Casualty Insurers to improve risk management through superior real estate collateral information. Pro-Teck provides a comprehensive suite of services including on-line real estate data, fraud scoring, value modeling, inspections, valuations and appraisals.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes, including hosting specialization and expertise, delivering services as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

Lexington, Massachusetts - (The Hosting News) - April 4, 2008 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, has joined web application experience management company, Gomez, Inc., in a referral partner agreement, under which Rackspace will use Gomez ExperienceFirst applications.

The Gomez PartnerFirst XF program Referral Partner Agreement will test and measure the performance of its web applications to help ensure they deliver the best possible user experience. Additionally, Rackspace will offer its customers the option to use Gomez services as an extension to the detailed application availability and performance monitoring it provides. These customers will be able to use these services to help improve the quality of the online experience they deliver by capturing and reporting website performance data measured from more than 150 globally-located Internet backbone nodes, and over 40,000 end-user desktops.

Because Gomez website performance testing originates outside the firewall, it enables customers to more realistically experience what their users are experiencing when visiting their websites. Scott White, Director of channel sales, Rackspace remarked, ”Gomez helps us and our customers measure performance so we can continuously improve and deliver better customer experiences.”

Tom Meusel, Vice President, worldwide channel sales for Gomez noted, ”Working with this industry- leading platform supports our ongoing commitment to Fanatical Support. We believe that this service can provide our customers with a distinct advantage in web experience management. Rackspace recognizes the importance of optimal web experiences down to each downloaded object and transaction. Delivering on this level of service requires a class of performance management information provided by Gomez. We look forward to a rewarding relationship with Rackspace for years to come.”

Gomez partners are leveraging the ExperienceFirst platform to validate and enhance their own product and services offerings, and to broaden their offerings through resale and referral arrangements. More information can be found at www.gomez.com/partners/partner-home.php.

Gomez, Inc. is an on-demand infrastructure provider for web application experience management solutions, helping business ensure quality web experiences for their customers. More than 1,000 companies use Gomez ExperienceFirst services worldwide, including 14 of the top 20 most visited websites. Gomez provides a comprehensive solution for managing the web application experience from development through deployment and the entire application life cycle, featuring visual, functional and load testing, actual end-user and active website monitoring, competitive benchmarking, and more than 40,000 data sources worldwide.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. By integrating the industry’s best technologies and delivering them as services, Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Because Rackspace removes the burden of infrastructure maintenance and management, customers can focus on their core business. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso (www.mosso.com) cloud computing platform and Mailtrust (www.mailtrust.com) a provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

To learn more about Gomez, please visit: www.gomez.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - March 12, 2008 - Rackspace managed web hosting services firm, has been chosen by online behavioural targeting technology company, Adknowledge, as Rackspace’s 4000th European customer, for its robust infrastructure, scalable storage, and IT service solutions.

John Cole, Managing Director, Adknowledge UK, remarked, ”We require instant access to over 15 terabytes of behavioural targeting data in the USA and so we knew that we would need a reliable data hosting provider in the UK to help us grow our data set in Europe. Rackspace fit the specifications of our brief and were well within budget, so we went live in December 2007. We have been very impressed by the service so far.”

Doug Loewe, Managing Director, Rackspace EMEA, noted, ”These are very exciting times for us as reaching the 4000th customer is an accolade we are very proud of. I feel confident that our belief in delivering Fanatical Support for our customers will continue to lead to success. While it’s far easier to focus on technology, exceeding customer expectation is the real challenge, which is why we are absolutely committed to customer service. We are delighted to have Adknowledge as one of our customers and look forward to a fruitful relationship with them.”

Rackspace has been selected by Adknowledge to aid it in the launch of two new products - Taglines and Cubics Social advertising. Taglines inserts behaviourally targeted logos and text links to user generated emails, newsletters and news alerts, turning what is essentially an existing cost base into a brand new revenue stream for UGC publishers and ISPs with large volumes of user generated email. Cubics, the social advertising channel of Adknowledge serves targeted ad inventory across hundreds of social media applications, including Facebook, MySpace and Bebo platforms.

Rackspace also announced two high-level appointments - Florian Schiebl as European Business Director, and Tarquin Bellinger as Sales Director, to reinforce its European operations. Prior to joining Rackspace, Schiebl was Managing Director of iPass, being responsible for the Central and Eastern European regions. He has also held positions at Bertelsmann, Compaq, Siemens, COLT Telecom and MFN.

Mr. Bellinger has joined Rackspace to lead the Sales and Solutions Engineering team. His previous position was at BT, where he led the company’s 21st Century Network business development programme. Prior to that, he led Cable and Wireless’ global services business division focusing on financial markets, based in New York.

Adknowledge is a single destination for advertisers looking for quality clicks beyond Google and Yahoo. Adknowledge operates BidSystem.com, a multi-channel behavioural targeting ad network in which advertisers seamlessly bid for traffic in display, email and smaller search engines. Over 50,000 advertisers have used the Adknowledge BidSystem. Additionally, publishers can display advertisements by integrating the AdStation product line of solutions with their website, email list, or search engine.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes, including hosting specialization and expertise, delivering services as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

To learn more about Adknowledge, please visit: www.adknowledge.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 28, 2008 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, will provide hosting services to on-demand third-party logistics (3PL) software firm, 3PL Central, for its Warehouse Management System (WMS) application, designed to service small to mid-size warehouse management functionality.

John Watkins, President and CEO, 3PL Central noted, ”Through our web-based 3PL Warehouse Manager, we provide an on-demand warehouse management system focused on public and third party warehouses with the functionality necessary to run multi-customer, multi-warehouse and multi-user facilities. The 3PL Warehouse Manager is able to support these multi-user facilities by providing each customer a unique URL login to view real-time global inventory, up-to-date transaction reports, EDI integration capabilities, email notifications, and offer other advanced WMS features, all fully branded for a customer’s specific website. By delivering our warehouse management software over the internet versus having our customers purchase and deploy the software, we help reduce overhead IT costs, making it easy for any warehouse operator, even with little technical skill, to operate and inventory a vast warehouse seamlessly. We needed an infrastructure with high availability, scalability, security and expertise found at Rackspace to support our business-critical applications and growing customer base. Knowing that Rackspace has helped thousands of other software-as-a-service companies grow and succeed is a huge value.”

Glenn Reinus, Senior Vice President of worldwide sales, Rackspace commented, ”Applications like 3PL Central’s must be supported by a strong, highly available, and most importantly, readily scaleable infrastructures. We believe that Rackspace delivers all of this on a world-class infrastructure and expertise that software-as-a-service customers require. Rackspace’s dedicated account teams work as an extension of 3PL Central’s own IT staff by delivering 24×7x365 Fanatical Support, helping them grow and succeed.”

3PL Central is a new breed of 3PL software provider offering on-demand supply chain software focused on the needs of 3PLs, public and third party warehouses. 3PL Central provides a variety of software including 3PL Warehouse Manager, the first on-demand Warehouse Management System (WMS) purpose-built to provide public warehouse operations enterprise-class WMS functionality. All of 3PL Central’s products are offered via an on-demand, or Software as a Service (SaaS) model, enabling 3PLs and public warehouses access to cutting edge software at a low monthly fee and significantly reducing the total cost of ownership of supply chain execution software from the traditional ”buy, upgrade and maintain” software cycle.

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 15,000 customers across eight data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

To learn more about 3PL Central, please visit: www.3plcentral.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - February 20, 2008 - Managed web hosting services firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting, has entered into a partnership agreement with SolutionSet, designed for participation in co-marketing activities.

SolutionSet delivers full-service brand and technology capabilities from its Palo Alto, California headquarters and offices in San Francisco, including the enterprise-class Community Services Platform (CSP), which has been deployed in a variety of business situations such as global sales and marketing portals, product marketing, family/parenting sites, political campaigns and developer groups. The platform helps clients implement online communities, making it relevant for their employees, partners and customers. It can also further grow clients’ businesses through highly targeted ad/marketing campaigns, community metric management and partner monetization programs.

Kent Langley, Director of Networking and Systems, SolutionSet noted, ”As a leading provider of web development, digital marketing and brand development services, we utilize Rackspace’s hosting expertise to ensure our clients’ sites and projects are operating on solid, scalable infrastructures. As a result, trust is a critical factor when choosing hosting for our clients and we know that we can trust Rackspace to treat our clients well. As a member of Rackspace’s Partner Network, communication and escalation paths are clear and consistent. It is our mutual clients that are the overall benefactors of the SolutionSet and Rackspace relationship.”

Scott White, Director of Channel Sales, Rackspace added, ”Rackspace provides SolutionSet clients with a fully managed and customizable hosting solution on which to grow their mission-critical sites and applications, backed by dedicated account teams providing 24×7 Fanatical Support. We look for synergistic relationships with industry leaders like SolutionSet and their CSP solution that enable us to add greater value to our customer base and support our ongoing commitment to Fanatical Support.”

SolutionSet is an agency that combines user-centered creative and leading-edge technology to deliver the next new thinking in web development, digital marketing, and brand experience. The company ranks No. 95 in this year’s Inc. 500 list and No. 10 in the IT Services category, with three-year growth rate of 1,582.1 percent. Founded in 2002, SolutionSet specializes in creating marketing and productivity solutions for clients ranging from Inc. 500 companies to incubator stage start-ups.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes, including hosting specialization and expertise, delivering services as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

To learn more about SolutionSet, please visit: www.solutionset.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 28, 2008 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, has revealed a new corporate strategy, based upon a reconfiguration of its identity, to reflect its intention to shift into IT hosting, while transforming traditional IT functions into consumable services via the web.

Lanham Napier, President and CEO, Rackspace noted, ”Rackspace has been focused on Fanatical Support® since the beginning - it’s in our DNA - and our new identity reflects that. Now we see the industry shifting to a service-based paradigm. Fanatical Support has been the key to our managed hosting success for the past nine years and will continue to propel us as we embark upon this new era of IT hosting.”

As more enterprises transition from purchasing in-house computing assets to leveraging service providers, Rackspace now offers a suite of hosted IT services that are more reliable and provide better value, including virtualization, hosted mail, custom application support, back-end IT and storage.

The newly-launched name, Rackspace, drops the Managed Hosting” terminology, signifying Rackspace’s new breadth of hosted services supporting companies of all sizes. In addition to Rackspace’s traditional managed hosting offering, its venture companies also complement the new strategy. They include:
- Mosso, the Rackspace cloud computing brand
- Mailtrust, the Rackspace business-class hosted email brand

The new logo incorporates Rackspace’s popular ”FANATIGUY” icon, which better reflects Rackspace’s people-centric culture and award-winning Fanatical Support. It also highlights the company’s transition from servers to services. Rackspace is moving beyond the historical hardware focus of the web hosting industry and towards a services strategy, assembling the best technologies in the industry and delivering them as a service. Fanatical Support has always been the key differentiator for Rackspace, but through the strategy shift, service will be accentuated even more.

Daniel Golding, Vice President and Research Director, Tier 1 Research noted, ”As the IT hosting sector evolves, it is becoming that the true competitive differentiator is customer support. As the very idea of IT hosting makes the leap into enterprise adoption, those firms that can offer truly outstanding support will come out on top.”

Mr. Napier added, ”As Rackspace leads the industry’s transition to hosted services, we will build upon our core managed hosting business and Fanatical Support. Our new services will compliment our existing portfolio allowing customers to easily offload more and more IT functions to Rackspace.”

Since the company’s founding in 1998, Rackspace has grown to more than 2,000 employees world wide, powering through the dotcom bust and moving up to become a leader in the managed hosting space. Growing at approximately 50 percent per year in revenue since the company’s inception nearly ten years ago, Rackspace has been named Microsoft’s Hosting Provider of the Year three times, The American Business Awards Best Customer Service Organization twice and a Leader in Gartner Inc.’s annual North American Web Hosting Magic Quadrant since 2004.

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 15,000 customers across eight data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

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Blacksburg, Virginia - (Website Hosting Directory) - January 24, 2008 - Business-class email hosting specialist and the mail division of Rackspace, Webmail.us, LLC, has issued a corporate brand change from Webmail to Mailtrust, as it continues to provide business-class email hosting for over 85,000 businesses worldwide.

Pat Matthews, President of Mailtrust noted, ”Because email is so mission-critical, trust is crucial in choosing your email provider. We wanted a name that would reflect that. The new name aligns our corporate mission with our reputation as a trusted email provider. We understand how serious it is to give control of such a mission-critical operation such as email to an outside vendor. Mailtrust indicates our dedication to becoming the world’s most trusted provider of business email hosting.”

The choice of the Mailtrust brand is a direct result of feedback from the company’s extensive customer base, who indicated that the most important reason for choosing Mailtrust as their email hosting provider was ”trust.” The name Mailtrust also highlights business-class email as the core of the company’s service offering and its focus to be the mail specialist that businesses can trust.

In addition to the new company brand, Mailtrust announced the addition of Managed Microsoft Exchange Hosting to its product portfolio. Microsoft Exchange is viewed by many as the corporate email standard and was a natural addition to Mailtrust’s product line. With the addition of Managed Microsoft Exchange to Mailtrust’s flagship Noteworthy® email hosting service, customers now have a choice of platforms depending on their size, functionality and budgetary needs. Businesses currently running Microsoft Exchange in-house can now offload their corporate email systems to Mailtrust and refocus their IT resources more strategically, without having to alter the user experience for their employees or move to a completely different platform.

Philbert Shih, research analyst for Tier1 Research, a division of The 451 Group noted, ”A dual mail offering of Managed Microsoft Exchange and Mailtrust’s own Noteworthy brand is a strong step forward for the company. Offering a choice between the Noteworthy and Managed Microsoft Exchange platforms is a strong selling point that should facilitate new customer acquisition and position Mailtrust for further growth as demand for collaborative and mobile messaging solutions accelerates.”

Although the company is changing its brand name, Mailtrust will continue to strive to deliver the industry’s premier business-class email services for organizations around the world. As part of the change, Mailtrust will launch a new website that better reflects the company’s mission and brand.

Mailtrust, a Rackspace company, provides more than 85,000 small, medium, and geographically dispersed companies with business-class email hosting. The company manages and maintains the email service and hosting infrastructure, freeing up IT resources and eliminating the need for customers to purchase email-related hardware, software, and security services, at rates designed to be at a fraction of the cost of purchasing and managing email services in-house. Founded in 1999, and acquired by Rackspace in 2007, Mailtrust is headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia and was recently named the 217th fastest growing, privately held company in America by Inc. Magazine.

A recognized leader in the global managed hosting market, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a world-class service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving over 10,000 customers across eight data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s Fanatical Support. Through trusted partnerships with its customers, Rackspace serves as an extension of the IT department, to enable customers to focus on core business strategies. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since its inception.

For more information about Mailtrust, please visit: www.mailtrust.com.

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San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 23, 2008 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, has begun a virtualization initiative, with its enterprise-class support of dedicated virtualized servers, as the newest service offering, designed to shift Rackspace to IT hosting.

Transforming traditional IT functions into consumable services via the web, is a mandate of Rackspace, as more enterprises transition from purchasing in-house computing assets to leveraging service providers, Rackspace now offers a suite of hosted IT services that are more reliable and provide better value, including virtualization, hosted mail, custom application support, back-end IT and storage.

John Engates, Chief Technology Officer, Rackspace noted, ”Our product development approach focuses first and foremost on Fanatical Support readiness. We also ask ‘Is the technology ready to use in a production environment?’ We believe that our new virtualization offering now meets these requirements and pushes the envelope, giving customers a virtualized environment ready for mission-critical applications, supported by our wealth of experience, expertise and Fanatical Support.”

Rackspace’s virtualization platform, built on VMware’s third-generation virtualization software suite, pushes virtualization to the next level in order to support mission-critical, production systems. Customers using virtualization can gain flexibility and scalability in their infrastructure, as well as simplified infrastructure management with new data protection options and on-demand provisioning. Additionally, server consolidation can be a benefit with the Rackspace virtualization offering.

Rackspace today has nearly 300 virtual machines under management, using the virtualization infrastructure for internal IT operations as well as Rackspace’s venture company infrastructures, Mosso cloud computing and Mailtrust hosted email solutions. Virtualization is a highly-complex technology, but Rackspace’s team of VMware Certified Engineers provides customers the technical expertise needed to design and leverage a virtualized system in the new era of provisioning, networking, monitoring, disaster recovery and more.

Ted Westerheide, of Consumer Intelligence at ShopLocal remarked, ”Our ShopLocal Index, which tracks the influence of the Internet on in-store shopping across major US retailers, grew by 60 percent this past holiday season compared to the year before. There are days, like Thanksgiving, when consumers look to us for in-store deals for the big shopping day (dubbed Black Friday) where we see traffic 30 times that of a normal day. While we serve millions of shoppers and over 100 retailers, we don’t want to disappoint one shopper or one retailer with a faulty website. Rackspace’s virtualization platform coupled with the predictive capabilities of the ShopLocal Index provides our company with a scalable architecture that seamlessly supports our busy shopping seasons, even when we see large, short-term spikes in traffic.”

Rackspace’s new virtualization platform will be based on dedicated physical hardware for each customer and will include the option of hybrid virtual and physical hosted environments. According to a recent Rackspace customer survey, 51 percent of customer respondents were not willing to share a physical server with other virtualization hosting customers, and only 13 percent were certain they were willing to share a physical server with other customers.

Mr. Engates added, ”Virtualization is still an evolving technology, and we believe this is just the beginning for Rackspace. Our RackLabs research and development department plans to continue to work with partners like VMware, Microsoft and XenSource to make generational leaps in the virtualization hosting arena. We expect future releases of Rackspace Virtualization Hosting to include enhanced disaster recovery, storage and scaling capabilities.”

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 15,000 customers across eight data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

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