Rackspace

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Rackspace US, Inc.

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legal form Incorporated
ISIN US7500861007
founding 1998
Seat San Antonio , Texas , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Kevin M. Jones (CEO)
Number of employees 6,000+
Branch IT services , web hosting
Website www.rackspace.com/de-de
As of August 14, 2019

Rackspace started as a web host in the late 1990s and is now an IT services provider headquartered in San Antonio , Texas . The company is one of the largest representatives in its industry, customers include or included, for example, GitHub , Vodafone and Mazda . Since August 2008 the company's shares have been traded on the New York Stock Exchange . In November 2016 it was announced that the investment company Apollo Global Management had acquired all shares in the company and that the company's shares were no longer traded on the stock exchange.

history

Rackspace goes back to the company Cymitar Technology Group , which was founded in 1996 by Richard Yoo . It dealt with the development of websites and other web-based applications. Due to the increasing demand in the field of web hosting , Rackspace began two years later under the leadership of Graham Weston as a spin-off with the operation of dedicated servers for customers of the Cymitar Technology Group. In 2009, the company received $ 11.5 million in funding that included Sequoia Capital and Red Hat .

In March 2006, Rackspace founded a subsidiary called Mosso , which was fully bought back in 2008. The core of the offer was a platform on which websites could be hosted without having to worry about the necessary technical infrastructure and especially about scaling . Mosso was subsequently discontinued as an independent brand and formed the basis for the Rackspace Cloud , which competes with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Windows Azure . In 2010, Rackspace, together with NASA , Dell and Citrix, launched the open source project OpenStack , which aims to provide an open source platform for cloud computing . Rackspace later transferred the management of the OpenStack project to a foundation. Starting in mid-2012, all Rackspace Cloud services were gradually converted to OpenStack, starting with the servers .

Products

Rackspace initially only offered dedicated servers and expanded its range with the acquisition of Mosso to include the so-called Rackspace Cloud . This mainly consists of cloud servers (virtual servers), cloud sites (web applications), cloud files (storage service) and cloud databases (databases) as well as various offers for administration and configuration. This included services for the domain name system and virtual networks, especially load balancers . The so-called private cloud is offered as a variant of the Rackspace Cloud . This is hardware and software that was coordinated by Rackspace and is intended for operation in its own data center .

In contrast to other providers, Rackspace attaches great importance to its customer service , which is referred to as fanatical support , instead of the technology of its products . Rackspace operates multiple data centers in different regions around the world, including Dallas , Chicago , Northern Virginia, London , Hong Kong and Sydney . In November 2016, the company announced that it would set up its first data center in Germany ( Frankfurt ) in 2017 in order to comply with the stricter data protection regulations in the Germany, Austria and Switzerland region.

criticism

Rackspace came under fire in 2009 after the server and cloud services in the company's largest data center in Dallas at the time had failed several times. The uninterruptible power supply was not started as intended several times. Numerous popular online services , including Tumblr, were affected by the outage . As a result of the failures, the CEO announced that he would review the entire technical infrastructure. Rackspace also reimbursed its customers for a total of approximately $ 3.5 million in fees.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leadership
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  3. ↑ Elizabeth Montalbano: Rackspace IPO needed to cope with fast growth. (No longer available online.) In: Network World. August 8, 2008, archived from the original on June 3, 2013 ; accessed on August 27, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.networkworld.com
  4. ^ Rackspace Completes Previously Announced Transaction with Affiliates of Funds Affiliated with Apollo Global Management to Become a Private Company. Market Wire, November 3, 2016, accessed November 23, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Graham Weston ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rackspace.com
  6. ↑ Rackspace.com Announces $ 11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital, Norwest and Red Hat Linux. In: PR Newswire. April 3, 2000, accessed August 27, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Rich Miller: Mosso Evolves Into The Hosting Cloud. In: Data Center Knowledge. February 19, 2008, accessed August 27, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Guido Mühlwitz: OpenStack: NASA and Rackspace are working on a common cloud hosting OpenSource solution. (No longer available online.) In: t3n magazine. July 20, 2010, archived from the original on August 10, 2014 ; Retrieved August 27, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / t3n.de
  9. ↑ Oliver Diedrich: Rackspace would like to establish a foundation for OpenStack. In: heise Open Source. October 6, 2011, accessed August 27, 2013 .
  10. ^ Mike Barton: Rackspace Rolls Out OpenStack Cloud Servers. In: Wired. April 16, 2012, accessed August 27, 2013 .
  11. ^ The Rackspace public cloud portfolio. Rackspace, accessed August 27, 2013 .
  12. ↑ About Rackspace Private Cloud. (No longer available online.) Rackspace, archived from the original on August 14, 2013 ; accessed on August 27, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rackspace.com
  13. ↑ Fanatical Support for Hosting, Managed Hosting, & Dedicated Servers. Rackspace, accessed August 27, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Global Infrastructure. In: rackspace.com. Rackspace, accessed November 23, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Rackspace Opens First Data Center In Continental Europe With New German Facility. Market Wire, November 23, 2016, accessed November 23, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Rich Miller: Power Outage Affects Rackspace Cloud. In: Data Center Knowledge. November 3, 2009, accessed August 27, 2013 .
  17. ↑ Rackspace Goes Down. Again. Takes The Internet With It. Again. In: TechCrunch. December 18, 2009, accessed August 27, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Lanham Napier: Dallas-Fort Worth Data Center Update. In: The Rackspace Blog. July 9, 2009, accessed August 27, 2013 .
  19. ^ Jon Brodkin: Rackspace to issue as much as $ 3.5M in customer credits after outage. (No longer available online.) In: Network World. July 6, 2009, archived from the original on July 2, 2013 ; accessed on August 27, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.networkworld.com

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