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General(2)

Virgin Trains

The West Coast line, once a source of acute embarrassment to the companies that operated it, has become a jewel in the crown of the Virgin Group. Under the flamboyant encouragement of the legendary Sir Richard Branson, and equipped with a whole new fleet of exceptionally modern rolling stock, the re-engineered line has flourished.

E-Lecta

E-Lecta Live is a live virtual classroom and a real-time online collaboration environment designed for teaching and training over the Internet. This enables users to arrange live classes, lectures, online meetings, group sessions, individual one-on-one sessions and webinars over the web in real time. The only requirement is a computer with an internet connection

Manufacturing(4)

IET

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.

Renault

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.

Scorpion Automotive

Scorpion Automotive is the UK's leading supplier and manufacturer of vehicle security alarm systems and mobile communication Interfaces for passenger cars and both light and heavy commercial vehicles. The company’s diverse range comprises vehicle security products including tracking systems and a wide range of automotive and commercial accessories for safety, comfort and ease of driving. Rackspace has provided the secure hosting that enables their tracking system to operate 24/7/365.

Mazda Cars USA

Mazda North American Operations thrives in an environment built on speed, agility and efficiency. Since 1970, when they began importing vehicles to the United States, Mazda has built its brand on providing the most thrilling vehicles, as well as parts and accessories, to its customers. When the time came to choose a hosting provider for its North America website, Mazda chose Rackspace® Hosting, a company that delivers 100% network uptime and provides Fanatical Support® 24-hours a day.

Public Sector(7)

Climate Change Now

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!

Transport for London

With over 10 million users, the Oyster card system requires a vast technical infrastructure and security to make it viable and practical to use. Customers need to be able to obtain an Oyster Card, top it up with cash, add in season tickets and other travel warrants or set the card to automatically top up from a nominated account. All this is now easily achieved directly through the Oyster website, hosted by Rackspace.

MOD

The Joint Server Farm (JSF) is a shared secure hosting environment established by the MOD for all public web hosting, including all the hosting needs for British Army, Royal Navy and RAF recruitment web sites, as well as ArmyNET, the communications portal for soldiers to use to communicate with their families wherever they may be in the world.

NHS Direct and Infermed

NHS Direct is finalising a groundbreaking project to enhance its web and digital health services through the introduction and implementation of a brand new suite of online clinical self assessment tools.

Saïd Business School

University of Oxford Department makes full use of Rackspace Mail for its students and alumni

Department for Transport

When the UK coalition government made a cabinet decision to reduce its costs across the board it impacted on every department in the public sector. The key factor for many was to be seen to be rationalising their public facing operations and showing it was genuinely possible to make significant cost savings without dilution of service, through resource sharing and the implementation of new technological solutions. The case story reveals how the DfT has benefited from its partnership with Rackspace.

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the nation’s renowned senior service, protecting Britain’s interests, citizens, territory and economy by always being at the ready to discourage or defeat the nation’s enemies with ships, naval aircraft and Royal Marines capable of conducting decisive combat operations at sea, from the sea, on land and in the air alongside the sister services and international allies. The web forms a critical part of its communication network for recruitment and information delivery.

Ecommerce(13)

Vue

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.

Arena Flowers

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.

Holiday Watchdog/Tripadvisor

Holiday Watchdog and Travel Library are among the UK’s foremost travel information websites. They provide genuine travel and holiday reviews written by real holidaymakers, and cover accommodation and holiday tour operators from around the world. Sites like Holiday Watchdog attract 5-million visitors in a peak month, and as a result, hundreds of exciting new reviews are added daily. Holiday Watchdog and Travel Library are acknowledged as being among the foremost sources of fresh travel content in the United Kingdom, and enjoy being a part of the vast, worldwide Trip Advisor network.

Mode Flowers

Flower Power in the clouds Mode Flowers chooses cloud hosting for new business

Superstoresearch.com

SuperStoreSearch.com is an amazingly vast internet shopping and price comparison site featuring millions of products and services. It offers helpful buyers guides on everything from TVs to washing machines, featuring detailed product catalogues and probably more importantly, the best market price on where to buy the product or service you are looking for, by searching over 500 high street shops and online stores. As you can imagine the processing power and datasets required to run and maintain such an operation are immense. The shopping search database alone features more than 10 million products, which are processed and updated nightly to ensure consumers get the most accurate information prior to a purchase.

Intelligent Retail

Intelligent Retail was the first company in the UK to design and build an Electronic Point of Sale (EPoS) and integrated eCommerce solution to suit the needs of specific UK independent retailers. Their original Connect system offered a complete management package for the giftware sector, allowing full stock control, re-ordering, sales management and finance in one convenient package. Today the company offers a broad range of Connect solutions tailored to individual industries that manage and link multiple outlets with both online and offline channels.

MedicAnimal.com

MedicAnimal.com, the online pet care and animal welfare site, is an immensely popular resource for animal lovers all over Europe. The company operates websites in the UK, France, Netherlands, Germany, and Spain and has a reputation for the supply of high quality pet care and veterinary products for animals and pets of all shapes and sizes. Huge server infrastructure replaced by the cloud The success of the websites has meant a huge growth in server infrastructure requirement and online operating costs, so the company took the dramatic step of replacing its entire IT infrastructure with Rackspace Hosting’s cloud hosting solution. As part of this bold strategic approach, MedicAnimal.com selected Cloud Servers and Cloud Files to host nine enterprise resource planning (ERP) servers and enable the company to focus on generating business revenue, without the headache of managing servers.

Outbound Maps

Online map store scales up their business in the cloud. Outbound Maps is a comprehensive, online map store providing every conceivable cartographic creation, map and guide that budding explorers need to guide them, step by detailed step, through the countryside of the United Kingdom.

Not on the High Street

An e-business for the out of the ordinary. An online marketplace which showcases unique collections of inspiring products from the UK’s most creative small businesses.

Isabella Oliver

Isabella Oliver is an amazingly successful e-tailer offering a wide range of maternity clothes, which have taken the fashion world by storm. The huge success of the company has been due to the fact that absolutely nobody made anything that was remotely fashionable for those ladies that were expecting. In the bad old days the choice for pregnant ladies, no matter how stylish they were or wanted to be, was restricted to a pair of baggy dungarees or a large tent-like, mumsy structure purporting to be a dress! A pregnancy at that time equaled a fashion bypass.

AllSaints Spitalfields

World leading fashion store grows with Rackspace Hosting providing the stable foundation for their highly successful e-commerce website.

Souq.com

Souq.com is the largest e-commerce site in the Arab world covering Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, and still expanding into new markets. The website was established in 2005 and is an immensely popular online marketplace, where thousands of buyers and sellers in the region congregate on a daily basis to market their goods or purchase products. Souq.com uses a tried and trusted platform that offers various local payment options as well as integrated delivery methods specifically designed for the markets that are served.

First B2B Limited

First B2B Limited is a Global Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) specialist with clients all around the world. They match, integrate and exchange data in real time between retailers, suppliers, manufacturers and customers. The time critical nature of the business requires absolute reliability and guaranteed network uptime for the web based business. Their integrated supply chain technology and Just In Time (JIT) ordering and delivery processing has revolutionised cash flow and warehouse management.

Publishing(7)

Friday Ad

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 Register

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.

Data Explorers

Data Explorers Limited provides its global client base with quantitative measurement of securities lending, performance and risk. The company is based in New York and London and collects data from a wide range of market participants to create the world‟s most comprehensive and up-to-date database of information and research on stock lending and short interest.

Which?

Which? is Europe’s largest consumer rights organisation, with over 700,000 members. It has been part of everyday life in the UK for over 50 years, and is totally independent of Government, industry and advertisers. Which? is funded through the sale of magazines, books and online services and is a genuine, totally impartial voice for all UK consumers.

Al Aan TV

Al Aan TV is an Arabic TV station catering for a female audience. Established for 5-years, the popular channel offers an exciting mix of programming with cooking, fashion, chat and daily news.

Lonely Planet

Around the world, millions of travellers look to Lonely Planet to provide concise and helpful information about their business and leisure destinations. For the last five years they have also been turning to Lonely Planet to help them find the best deals and get the best advice on accommodation.

Lacubanada.com

Rackspace Cloud hosting is ‘muy bien’ for Cuban social media site LaCubanada.com is a warm, sociable, home from home social networking website for the Cuban diaspora of the world. It brings together friends, countrymen and Cuban travellers that are a long way from home, offering a sparkling taste of local culture; a way to connect and converse and provides an exciting marketplace for all those things you miss, which can only be found in your country of origin.

Marketing(2)

Make Friends Online

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.

dianomi

dianomi™ enables global brands in the finance, automotive and lifestyle sectors to target the affluent and acquire customers through its proprietary technology platform, Exedra™. Reliable hosting, network uptime and support are critical elements in the company's success

Financial Services(6)

Confused.com

Online insurance search engine, confused.com, chose Rackspace for the Fanatical Support and instant scalability needed to cater for rapid growth.

Go Compare

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.

Best Practice

Best Practice is a financial advice network free from the direct influence of any financial corporation. Its exclusive members represent some of the best totally independent financial advisors in the UK, who, in turn, offer the highest standard of service to clients throughout the country. The company provides each member with a bespoke platform, compliance and IT solutions for chartered financial planners and wealth managers. Best Practice was awarded Network of the Year in the 2011 Money Marketing Awards.

Openwork

Openwork is the UK's largest multi-tie network, comprising of around 2,200 professional financial advisers. They use Rackspace private cloud to support their network of Financial Advisers.

MEM Consumer Finance

Short term loan specialist selects Rackspace Hosting for security

eGroup

eDevelopment Ltd provides the sales platform for its customers who form one of the fastest growing direct insurance businesses in the UK, with over 1 million quotes a year and 275,000 policy holders to date.

Interactive Agency(7)

Base One

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.

Equator

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.

4T2 Multimedia

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

Big:Group/Mastercard

A key factor in delivering superb, interactive, online content is a reliable hosting partner. big:group, in keeping with many hi-tech marketing agencies, chose to partner with Rackspace® Hosting.

ORM - ITV and Channel4

A digital service agency takes full advantage of cloud hosting

Born05

KLM in flight magazine airborne with Rackspace

Categories:
Hybrid Hosting

Sequence

Sequence’s clients are many and varied and include a number of highly secure online developments for Government and financial bodies

Telecoms(1)

Vodafone Money Transfer

Vodafone is at the centre of a financial services revolution in Africa. It’s not based on plush branches or teams of big bonus bankers, neither is there the constant in your face advertising enticing you to deposit, borrow or save. Instead it relies on a simple ‘pay-as-you-go’ model that allows registered users to send and receive cash via their existing mobile phones.

Application Developer(2)

Ballard Chalmers

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.

WebJam

Webjam provide an online platform to create customisable, purpose-driven social networks with the flexibility to control what is shared with whom.

Categories:
Hosting

Software as a Service(10)

Clicktools

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.

NetBiscuits

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.

Xero

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

Categories:
Hosting,
Dedicated Servers,
SaaS

Confirmit

Confirmit is a leading, global provider of software for customer feedback, employee feedback and market research applications. It is one of the most successful Software-as-a- Service research solution vendors in the world.

Managemycomplaints.com

United Kingdom (U.K.)–based service managemycomplaints.com has released its customer complaints and feedback application through the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. The Web supported software is hosted by Microsoft Software-plus-Services Incubation Center Partner Rackspace Hosting. This means managemycomplaints.com customers get a secure, round-the-clock hosted environment.

Categories:
SaaS

Breathe HR

Centurion MS was formed in 1996 as a specialist business software provider offering HR solutions for small to medium sized businesses. The company has developed its HR solution and now offers sophisticated human resource management software through their SaaS (Software as a Service) gateway. breatheHR™ is an online people management solution designed to help companies manage staff and employment resources.

Software Europe

Software (Europe) Ltd, formed in 1989, is a highly successful supplier of innovative web-based services. The company was originally set up to offer solutions to the System z mainframe software industry. Ten years ago the management team at Software Europe saw a unique opportunity to extend business onto the Internet. Software Europe now provides global SaaS solutions to over 140 customers, catering for their needs in the expenses management and contract and supplier management sectors.

Avelo

Avelo is a technology company that provides the sophisticated IT interface between financial service providers and their clients. The company is the combination of Screen Business, 1st-The Exchange and N4 Solutions and includes the amalgamation of key system developers. The skills, expertise, technology, industry knowledge and innovation have all been combined to offer huge business management potential nfor financial businesses across the UK.

Emergent Systems

Emergent Systems (Pty) Ltd is a South African software engineering company that develops resilient software systems for highly complex environments. Through its Seeing Swans Research and Development Division, it specialises in providing artificial intelligence and smart sensor network solutions to problems where key uncertainties and complexities are the prime result of highly unpredictable human behaviour. Rackspace has been chosen as a hosting provider for its guaranteed network uptime, speed and reliability for critical applications.

Basware Corporation

The Basware Corporation is a public company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. It was founded in 1985 and is now acknowledged as being the global leader in purchase-to-pay automation technology. It offers its Software-as-a-Service financial management worldwide for procurement and financial process automation, including packages for e-invoicing, e-procurement and travel and expense management. Hosting is a critical factor in their business.

Consultancy(1)

Turning Point

The Turning Point needed an Email solution which would offer secure backup (a large proportion of our company data/history is kept in email form) and extreme reliability of transmission and reception to ensure our entire international team was in constant contact. The obvious choice was Rackspace Microsoft Exchange with their reputation for 24/7/365 Fanatical Support

Categories:
Hosted Exchange

Ecommerce Solutions(1)

Salmon

Salmon is a global systems integrator that employs over 200 people in the UK and specialises in developing and supporting integrated eCommerce and e-Insurance solutions, for a wide variety of national and international clients. Successful brands include well known high street names such as Argos, Barratts, Boots, Halfords and Selfridges as well as high traffic online insurance and retail finance portals like Endsleigh and Dual.

Ecommerce Software Supplier(1)

3EV

Professional web developers adopt the cloud

Advertising / PR(1)

Puxee

Puxee is an interactive advertising network that is aiming to fulfill the needs of both advertisers and publishers.

Retail(2)

Carrs Silver

Carrs Silver was established in the year of Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee – 1977. The company quickly established a name for high quality silverware and commemorative products, later turning its many skills to the manufacture of silver photo frames, which remain a core business to this day. The company has grown significantly and now offers the most comprehensive range of silverware, cutlery and silver gift products in the UK, all of which is marketed by respected high street jewellers and high end department stores, including Harrods, John Lewis and Selfridges. Today Carrs products can be purchased worldwide from the very best stores in over 50 countries around the world.

Domino's Pizza

Rackspace serves and delivers hybrid hosting to Domino’s. Rackspace hosted applications will include the public-facing ecommerce site www.dominos.co.uk, as well as the online payment gateway, corporate email and backoffice systems, and the company intranet linked through RackConnect®.

IT Consulting(1)

GTM Managed Solutions

GTM AS is a managed solutions provider offering web development, hosting and email solutions plus full system support to many clients in the Nordic region. GTM provides its clients with the latest cloud hosting, Managed Exchange and SharePoint solutions through its partnership with Rackspace® Hosting.

Clients By Sector:

General(1)