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Rackspace Logo
Rackspace Growth Score
91
CB Rank
10426
Heat Score
78
Rackspace provides cloud-based services that enable businesses to run their workload in a public or private cloud.
Acquired by
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PublicPost-IPO Debt San Antonio, Texas, United States5001-10000 www.rackspace.com
AI Infrastructure
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
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IaaS
Information Technology
Overview

Rackspace
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Growth Score
91
Heat Score
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Growth Score91
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Heat Score 78
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Recent Milestones
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About Rackspace

CB Rank
10426
Rackspace provides cloud-based services that enable businesses to run their workload in a public or private cloud.
Acquired by
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Apollo
Founded
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PublicPost-IPO Debt San Antonio, Texas, United States5001-10000 www.rackspace.com
AI Infrastructure
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
IaaS
Information Technology

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Key People

  • Photo of Joseph Vito
    Joseph Vito: SVP of Strategic Alliance Partnerships
    Past Role: Amazon Web Services, Strategic Transformation Principal
  • Photo of Shaunak Kashyap
    Shaunak Kashyap: Developer Advocate
    Past Role: Elastic, Developer Advocate

Details

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Legal Name Rackspace, Inc.
Operating Status Active
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Stock Symbol  NASDAQ:RXT
Company Type For Profit
Founders  Dirk Elmendorf, Graham Weston, Pat Condon, Richard Yoo
About the Company

Rackspace provides hybrid cloud-based services that enable businesses to run their workload in a public or private cloud.

Rackspace’s engineers deliver specialized expertise on top of leading technologies developed by OpenStack, Microsoft, VMware, and others through a service known as Fanatical Support. It has more than 300,000 customers worldwide

including two-thirds of FORTUNE 100 companies.

Rackspace was named a leader in the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting and has been honored as one of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For.

Rackspace was founded in 1998 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.

Phone Number +1-800-961-2888
Contact Email sales@rackspace.com
Related Hubs Rackspace Alumni Founded Companies
Predictions & Insights

Products & Services

Private Cloud Solutions
Provides private cloud environments optimized for performance, security, and agility, supported by professional and managed services.
Public Cloud Services
Assists with migration, modernization, and management of workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud platforms.

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Financials

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Investments

Number of Investments 8
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Investment Breakdown

Number of Investments 8
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M&A Details

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Market Intelligence
People
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Headcount 5001-10000 Employee Profiles 37 Board Members and Advisors 2 Contacts 3,368

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Technology
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Monthly Web Visits

1,945,662
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IT Spend

$180.1MThis year, Rackspace is projected to spend $180.1M on IT, according to Aberdeen.

Interest Signals

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Actively Used Products

84Rackspace uses 84 technology products and services including HTML5, Apache Server, and  Google Analytics, according to G2 Stack.

Active Website Tech Count

187Rackspace is actively using 187 technologies for its website, according to BuiltWith. These include DNSSEC, LetsEncrypt, and  Cloudflare CDN.

Total IP

111The intellectual property of Rackspace includes 16 registered patents primarily in the 'Computing; Calculating' category, according to IPqwery. Additionally, Rackspace has registered 95 trademarks with the most popular class being 'Scientific and technological services', according to IPqwery.
Sub-Organizations

Sub-Organizations

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Rackspace's headquarters? Rackspace is located in San Antonio, Texas, United States.Who invested in Rackspace? Rackspace has 7 investors including ABRY Partners and  Accel-KKR.When was the last funding round for Rackspace? Rackspace closed its last funding round on
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