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General(1)

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.

Manufacturing(2)

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.

Public Sector(4)

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.

Publishing(6)

Hearst Digital

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.

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.

Ecommerce(3)

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.

Marketing(1)

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.

Telecoms(3)

Blue Unplugged

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.

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.

Jzero and Orange

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.

Financial Services(2)

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.

Interactive Agency(6)

Base01

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.

Pod1

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.

Rawnet

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.

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

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.

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(5)

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 and recently announced that in excess of 118 million interviews were completed on its platform during 2008, bringing its total to over 430 million for the last seven years. Recent growth figures have revealed a 33% increase in completed interviews on its On-Demand platform in the past year alone.

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

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.

Clients By Sector:

Dedicated hosting(36)

IET