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The following case studies cut across industries - from publishing to multinationals - and include companies of all sizes from FTSE 250 to entrepreneurial startups. However, they share similar stories of frustration with hosting providers failing to deliver the highly specialised services needed to manage their mission-critical hosting environments. They looked for a better alternative and found Rackspace®.
The Army needed a hosting company who could deliver guaranteed uptime and security for their ArmyNET portal. Out of 5 companies who submitted tenders, Rackspace clearly shone out above all the others!
When the IET, the UK's largest professional association, needed a reliable partner to host their informative web site, the Institution of Engineering and Technology looked to Rackspace.
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Environmental energy savers, ClimateChangeNow, need more than political correctness to help the cause. Rackspace stepped in at the last minute and helped save the day and maybe even the planet!
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French car giant Renault uses creative microsites to support its well-known advertising campaigns and promote UK operations to a receptive audience, they found Rackspace provided the flexibility and reliability they needed.
With over 50 million page hits across their publications, Hearst needed a hosting provider who could live up to their high traffic demands. Rackspace was the perfect match for Hearst, as they put the customer first and provide a level of service and support which is second to none.
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Vue Entertainment need their rapidly expanding online booking system to always be available whenever a customer wants to see what's on and where. It is here they turned to Rackspace to ensure their web site and online system is always available.
Hugely successful publisher, Friday-Ad, now has 32 publications hosted on line with Rackspace. They need secure and reliable hosting to support very active e-commerce and online ad-booking applications.
The dedicated International readership of The Register relies on them to be an independent and up to date reference site to what's happening in the big wide world. For such a well supported site, failure to publish is not an option. It will be no surprise to learn that when it comes to web hosting, the Register uses the world's most fanatical hosting company.
A perfect match - Rackspace plays host to love on the Internet with Make Friends Online. MFO has grown into one of the most popular dating sites.
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Arenaflowers.com has seen a massive growth in their business within UK and Europe. They found that part of their key to success was finding the right server, which is a vital element to any online retailing business. They found Rackspace provided them with the flexibility and reliability they needed to help the business thrive and grow, also in such challenging and economic times.
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blueunplugged.com benefited hugely from their partnership with Rackspace, not only through the fantastic standard of service and reliability, but also the total peace of mind that managed hosting provided.
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For the large European website of Carhartt, the work wear clothing brand, cherish asked Rackspace to do their managed hosting to ensure their website was live and protecting their online brand and reputation.
Online insurance search engine, confused.com, chose Rackspace for the Fanatical Supportand instant scalability needed to cater for rapid growth.
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Gocompare.com was launched in November 2006 and has grown significantly since its launch and the site now handles tens of thousands of quotes daily. Fortunately, their previous experience meant that they'd already identified a superb hosting provider in the shape of Rackspace®, which enabled them to be up and running in a very short time frame.
B2B communications specialists, Base One Group uses intensive dedicated hosting to save time and money and concentrate on the award-winning creative business for which they are well known.
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One of the UK's most successful Top 100 digital media agencies chose Rackspace as a hosting partner because it was the only managed hosting company that could offer such a complete managed hosting solution with the requisite flexibility of bandwidth and the level of support needed.
Before digital service agency POD1 shelled out on managed hosting they needed to be sure of total support for all their client websites. They found they could trust Rackspace as their managed hosting partner.
As an advanced web developer, Rawnet uses high powered hosting to keep its clients ahead and they trust Rackspace to host their clients websites, new media solutions and eBusiness applications.
[i] Group is a specialist supplier of high value, low cost, Internet solutions to organisations requiring a technology partner. Due to the limited South African bandwidth availability and high cost, [i] Group tasked themselves with finding an international supplier with global reach - Rackspace stepped up to the challenge.
Glasgow-based full service e-business and online marketing agency, Equator, is at the top of a list of internet development agencies in the UK. Web hosting is a key element of their success and they demand 100% uptime and 100% dedication from their support team - which is why they chose Rackspace to manage and maintain their web and database servers.
Glass Partnership is an independent, creatively-led design and interactive marketing agency. It is focused on connecting brands with people living in today's connected world. Their work is web based and their hosting partner of choice is Rackspace.
NetConstruct is a multi-disciplinary supplier of individually tailored web-based solutions for application over intranets and the internet. The company, founded in 1995, was ranked by New Media Age in 2006 as a UK Top 50 E-development agency.
AKQA is the world’s number one digital agency, delivering incredibly complex and exciting interactive experiences and vibrant customer relationship management along with strategic consulting, branding and pretty well anything that starts with an ‘e’. The company connects ideas and innovation to deliver award-winning results for the worlds leading brands. AKQA discovered Rackspace 4 years ago to meet their demanding Hosting needs, and have never looked back, read on to find out more.
4T2 is primarily a marketing led technology company offering IP based software solutions for strategic marketing purposes. The entire business relies on the internet for delivery, so it makes total sense that 4T2 should link with one of the foremost business hosting providers in the business. Read on to find out more about how Rackspace help deliver solutions for their demanding clients
Ballard Chalmers is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with extensive expertise in consulting, custom development, training and hosted solutions for Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, BizTalk Server and Commerce Server technologies. They need to be 100% certain their servers are available 24/7/365 with full system monitoring and total support at all times. This is why they opted to outsource their hosting requirements to Rackspace.
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Clicktools is a web-based, on-demand research company with particular focus on customer lifecycle event management and customer satisfaction. Clicktools required a very sophisticated hosting package to ensure 100% uptime and availability demanded by customers. They turned to specialists, Rackspace who provided everything they needed and more.
Increase CRM is one of the new breed of specialist, online application providers launched to meet an ever increasing demand for software online. They knew that a successful online application has to be always available. It must be reliable and up to date, that is why they chose Rackspace to be their application hosting partner.
Golden Ball is a market-leading specialist in the creation and management of exciting and memorable incentive programmes, event management and corporate hospitality for many of the world's most successful companies. Its online reward management system has been created by specialist software developer Ballard Chalmers, and it is among the most sophisticated web based applications in use today. They are supported by Rackspace to provide their specialist hosting infrastructure for all our applications.
Netbiscuits operates the world's leading B2B web software platform for the development, publishing and advertising on the mobile Internet. With premium clients such as eBay, Yahoo!, and AOL, Netbiscuits looked to Rackspace as their hosting partner of choice to provide them with the necessary stability, availability, and scalable infrastructure essential for mobile computing.
Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators with more than 170 million customers on five continents. They provide high quality GSM coverage to 99% of the UK population and at the end of September 2008, Orange had over 16.84 million customers in the UK. To keep up with customer demand and rapid changes in technology, the Orange UK learner management system was created by specialist e-Learning development company, JZero, as a bespoke online learning portal to train all Orange staff.
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Xero is the creator and provider of the world's easiest, most flexible accounting system for small businesses. Recently they have offered their business management and accounting software application online globally as a service (SaaS) so it's clients' databases are always available to perform at optimum speed from wherever users may choose. To guarantee such performance requires a very special hosting provider. Read on to find out why Xero chose Rackspace for the hosting of their SaaS solution
Netconnect creates sophisticated online conferencing solutions that help people work together wherever they may be in the world. Founded in 1998 Netconnect is now building on its well established brand by working with the latest Microsoft sharepoint technology to offer highly developed hosted software as a service solutions for global users. They chose Rackspace for the hosting of their SaaS solution.
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