Rackspace Hosting, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides cloud computing services, managing Web-based IT systems for small and medium-sized businesses, and large enterprises worldwide. Its service offering combines hosting on dedicated hardware and on multi-tenant pools of virtualized hardware in a way that suits each customer’s requirements. The company’s public cloud services refer to pooled computing resources delivered on-demand over the Internet. It offers cloud servers for computing; cloud sites for Website hosting; cloud block storage and cloud files for storage; cloud databases for hosting; cloud backup for file protection; cloud load balancers for traffic management; cloud monitoring for infrastructure control; cloud DNS for domain management; cloud networks for security enhancement; and cloud applications, including email, collaboration, and file back-ups. Rackspace Hosting’s dedicated cloud services comprise customer management portal and other management tools for managing the data center, network, hardware devices, and operating system software; and private cloud services include a pool of computing resources for a particular customer. It also provides hybrid hosting, which enables customers to employ a combination of dedicated and pooled resources and to manage them through its RackConnect service. The company sells its service suite through direct sales teams, third party channel partners, and online ordering. Rackspace Hosting, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

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