Rackspace Opens New Data Center in Australia

Rackspace (News - Alert) Hosting, the open cloud company, recently announced that it opened its first Australian data centrer at Erskine Park in Western Sydney. With the help of the new data center, the company can now drive its growth in Australian market by offering local dedicated hosting and managed virtualization solutions.

 The Australian data center is built according to Rackspace's high global standards and the local agreement was negotiated with global partner Digital Realty. It is currently in the late stages of construction and the first customers are expected to go live in late 2012.

Mark Randall, Country Manager of Rackspace, Australia and New Zealand, said, "Our local customers have learnt that Rackspace is synonymous with the latest in innovative cloud hosting solutions, but the key success driver that really sets us apart from the competition is our focus on service by providing customers with Fanatical Support. Australian customers love our support. It really has set us apart in an industry otherwise dominated by telcos, with support models that leave a lot to be desired."

Rackspace already has existing facilities in Dallas, Chicago, Virginia, London, and Hong Kong. The company already has over 190,000 customers and currently hosts more than 60 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. Rackspace was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner (News - Alert) Inc. in the "2011 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting." Rackspace is headquartered in San Antonio with offices and data centers around the world.

Goran Stefkovski, director of IT at Kogan and a recent Rackspace customer, said, "We recently launched our new Kogan website. An important part of the launch included carefully selecting a new hosting partner that provided infrastructure stability as well as flexibility to enable Kogan to implement 'cutting edge' hybrid web architectures. We evaluated several major hosting partners, but it was Rackspace's uptime guarantees, Fanatical Support and proactive management that became the winning factors".

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