Rackspace Expands Global Reach with Opening of Australian Data Centre

SYDNEY, Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire around COMTEX/ –
Rackspace® Hosting

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, a open cloud company, now announced a launch of a initial Australian information centre, located during Erskine Park in Western Sydney.

The new multi-million dollar investment will support a company’s ongoing enlargement in Australia. Rackspace can now offer internal dedicated hosting and managed virtualisation solutions to incomparable IT contracts looking to muster craving class private cloud solutions formed on VMWare from enterprise, financial markets and government, or any other patron who prefers to keep their information onshore. The information centre also provides a ideal launch pad for Rackspace’s own, OpenStack-based Open Cloud platform, approaching to launch into a internal market.

Since entering a Australian and New Zealand markets in 2009, Rackspace has gifted a poignant boost in internal patron numbers. Mark Randall, Country Manager of Rackspace, Australia and New Zealand said: “Our internal business have learnt that Rackspace is synonymous with a latest in innovative cloud hosting solutions, though a pivotal success motorist that unequivocally sets us detached from a foe is a concentration on use by providing business with Fanatical Support®.”

Rackspace has a possess tellurian benchmark for tailored patron support levels. Its hallmark patron use knowledge called Fanatical Support®, provides personalised use 24x7x365 and has won a association countless patron use awards. “Australian business adore a support. It unequivocally has set us detached in an attention differently dominated by telcos, with support models that leave a lot to be desired,” Randall continued.

New South Wales Deputy Premier and Minister for Trade Investment Andrew Stoner welcomed a investment as another certain step for Sydney’s tellurian form as a personality for Australia’s ICT sector.

“This is another Australian initial for Sydney and New South Wales and illusory news for a State’s repute globally as a nation’s ICT and digital hub.

“Sydney and New South Wales are well-positioned for enlargement in a expanding tellurian digital economy and Rackspace’s investment is another poignant opinion of certainty in a ability for creation and partnership opposite a ICT sector,” Mr Stoner said.

The investment will discharge any doubt about Rackspace’s ongoing joining to a internal marketplace and a Australian patron base, that includes: News Ltd, Webjet, Pacific Brands, Kogan, Lonely Planet, and Treasury Wine Estates.

Goran Stefkovski, Director of IT during Kogan and a new Rackspace customer, said: “We recently launched a new Kogan website. An critical partial of a launch enclosed delicately selecting a new hosting partner that supposing infrastructure fortitude as good as coherence to capacitate Kogan to exercise ‘cutting edge’ hybrid web architectures. We evaluated several vital hosting partners, though it was Rackspace’s uptime guarantees, Fanatical Support and active government that became a winning factors”.

The Australian information centre adds to a general information centre footprint, that includes existent comforts in Dallas, Chicago, Virginia, London, and Hong Kong. Since a association launched in 1998, Rackspace has grown a tellurian bottom to over 190,000 business and now hosts some-more than 60 per cent of a Fortune 100 companies.

Jim Fagan, Managing Director of Rackspace, Asia Pacific said: “Delivering Fanatical Support and a services portfolio to a Australian business is a tip priority. As tellurian enlargement increasingly becomes partial of many Australian businesses’ evident enlargement plans, when selecting Rackspace they know they can grow facilely with us interjection to a tellurian presence.”

To raise a smoothness of good services, Rackspace has extended a tellurian partnerships with a operation of world-class record resolution partners – including Brocade, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Microsoft and RedHat. Combined with Rackspace’s possess heading support charity and innovation, business will advantage from attention heading record on all levels.

In response to patron requests, Rackspace has recently begun charity business agreements underneath New South Wales law, that are agreeable with Australia’s National Privacy Principals. This arrangement will be extended to business hosting during a Sydney information centre.

Alan Schoenbaum, General Counsel of Rackspace said: “Rackspace will not send patron owned information from a Australia information centre to a law coercion group of another nation (including a United States) but a customer’s agree unless it is compelled to do so by Australian law. Data hosted in Australia by Rackspace is theme to a same laws as cloud services operated by unconditionally owned Australian companies.”

The Australian information centre is built according to Rackspace’s high tellurian standards and a internal agreement was negotiated with tellurian partner Digital Realty. It is now in a late stages of construction and a initial business are approaching to go live in late 2012. To safeguard it is operated in a same demeanour as other Rackspace information centres, it includes confidence certifications on launch for UTI Tier III Design and Construction, with certifications designed for SSAE16, ISO 27001, ISO 14001, PCI, and ASIO Intruder Resistant once entirely operational.

About Rackspace

Rackspace® Hosting

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is a open cloud company, delivering open technologies and powering some-more than 190,000 business worldwide. Rackspace provides a eminent Fanatical Support® opposite a extended portfolio of IT products, including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. The association offers choice, coherence and leisure from businessman close in. Rackspace has been famous by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and is featured on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. Rackspace was positioned in a Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in a “2011 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting.” Rackspace is headquartered in San Antonio with offices and information centers around a world. For some-more information, visit
www.rackspace.com.au .

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