1. Rackspace Is Positioned As A Leader In The Gartner Magic
Quadrant For Managed Hosting
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights by Lanham Napier | March 8, 2012 12:10 pm
We’re thrilled to announce that Rackspace Hosting has been recognized as a market leader in Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant For Managed
Hosting[1], which encompasses both physical and virtualized infrastructures, including cloud infrastructure-as-a-service.
We are working to build the service leader in cloud computing, and we believe this recognition from Gartner confirms that Fanatical Support
really does deliver incredible outcomes to our customers.
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant has become one of the most influential research reports upon which IT buyers use for their evaluations and purchases.
Gartner evaluates each provider for completeness of vision and ability to execute, and then places providers into four distinct categories: Niche
Players, Challengers, Visionaries and Leaders. Rackspace is honored to be named in the Leaders Quadrant for Managed Hosting.
Landing in the Leader Quadrant is no small feat. It took a massive amount of work and dedication from our Rackers to earn the leadership
designation from Gartner, and we’re pleased to share this news with our customers and company. Our success is fueled by Rackers volunteering
their best work to deliver Fanatical Support to our customers.
In 2011, Rackspace made several major advancements in its product and services portfolio to better serve our SMB and Enterprise customers,
and we plan on making even more important advances in 2012.
Last year we also saw the launch of Rackspace Cloud Builders, which provides consultative work around OpenStack, and the continued growth
of Rackspace’s hybrid hosting offering, RackConnect; both of which helped vault Rackspace into the leadership segment. RackConnect offers
the ability to bridge multiple environments – dedicated, public and private clouds – over a single virtual network while maintaining security.
We’re honored to be recognized as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting. We have very important work to do in 2012 as
we invest in our culture and advance our products and services. Some of the exciting work ahead of us includes increasing our product and
service capability on OpenStack and investing in new tools that power Fanatical Support.
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2. 1. Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant For Managed Hosting: http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-
19K9FPH&ct=120305&st=sb
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