Cloud Hosting

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX - News), the service leader in cloud computing, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting.1

The Gartner assessment, performed by the firms IT industry experts, evaluates providers based on the completeness of their vision and their ability to execute. It categorizes providers in quadrants labeled Niche Players, Challengers, Visionaries, and Leaders. Rackspace was among the 17 providers assessed by Gartner.

The year 2011 has been fundamental in several major Rackspace initiatives with the formation of Rackspace Cloud Builders, providing consultative work around OpenStack, and the continued success and growth of RackConnect, Rackspaces hybrid hosting solution. We consider our leadership position in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting providers as further confirmation that Fanatical Support provides great IT outcomes for our customers, said Lanham Napier, CEO at Rackspace. 2012 is a critical and exciting year for us as we work to advance OpenStack and extend the quality of services we provide our customers. We are obsessed with building a great company, and we're doing the hard work to build the service leader in cloud computing.

Rackspace is one of the few providers in the managed hosting market to offer hybrid hosting capabilities using its solution called RackConnect. According to the report, Most solutions for complex needs are hybrids, mixing different types of infrastructures to achieve cost-effectiveness, and to meet the customer's range of availability, performance, security and IT operations requirements. For instance, customers may need test and staging servers hosted on an IaaS platform, their front-end Web and application servers on utility hosting, and dedicated database servers. This has spurred providers to develop and productize hybrid hosting services that interconnect colocation, traditional hosting environments and cloud IaaS within unified networking and security contexts.

About Rackspace

Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX - News) is the service leader in cloud computing, and a founder of OpenStack, an open source cloud operating system. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support to its customers and partners, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. Rackspace has been recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and was featured on Fortunes list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. The company was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting. For more information, visit http://www.rackspace.com.

About the Magic Quadrant

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Rackspace Hosting Positioned as a Leader in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting Providers