SAN ANTONIO — September 1, 2006 — Rackspace Managed Hosting today announced that the company was positioned in the "Leader’s” Quadrant in Gartner Inc.’s annual North American Web Hosting Magic Quadrant* published August 25, 2006 and authored by Gartner analysts Ted Chamberlin and Lydia Leong. According to Gartner, vendors listed in the Leader’s Quadrant are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.
“We believe our position in the Leader’s Quadrant shows that Rackspace continues to penetrate the enterprise market and demonstrates our continued success as we work to become one of the world’s greatest service companies," said Lanham Napier, president, Rackspace Managed Hosting. "Our consultative approach to managed hosting reinforces the service value of Fanatical Support™ to our enterprise customers. Our service teams become an integral part of our customers’ IT departments, providing valuable expertise and technical advice to ensure they are getting the most out of their hosted environments.”
Elevating customer service to a consultative level, Rackspace exclusively focuses on the reliability and performance of customers’ mission-critical business applications, identifying trends, future opportunities and emerging issues through strategic technology planning and remediation. Rackspace’s fully-managed hosting solutions utilize additional advanced IT services including custom monitoring, comprehensive managed security, leading hardware platforms, managed backup and recovery, managed storage and advanced database administration services.
The Gartner Magic Quadrant evaluates service providers in the enterprise Web hosting market based on an array of quantitative and qualitative criteria that evaluate the vendor’s Ability to Execute and its Completeness of Vision. These scores are then plotted on a graph illustrating their placement in the Magic Quadrant. Information on each company is gathered through vendor interviews and questionnaires, ongoing client inquiries, reference checks and input from Gartner analysts.
To view the 2006 Gartner North American Web Hosting Magic Quadrant, please go to
http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/rackspace/141390.html.
Thank You
David.K
Rackspace Positioned in Leader’s Quadrant in 2006 North American Web Hosting Magic
