“We looked into hiring our own AWS-certified experts, or going with a smaller local provider, but these were both more costly and didn’t come with the extensive tooling that Rackspace has invested in on top of the AWS platform. Collaborating with Rackspace provided us with the security and management capabilities …

“The support I have gotten from Rackspace has been exceptional, I mean really phenomenal. They have gotten me out of a bind more than once, and I’m very grateful for them going above and beyond what they are contracted to do. The support has been awesome.”

"We realised however, that delivering a successful online operation 24 hours a day, 365 days a year required more than a great product and popular website. We required the strong backbone of Magento in partnership with the stability, flexibility and scalability of Rackspace Hosting to guarantee that we could deliver …

"What Fanatical Support means to me is that it’s truly an extension of our team. We focus on making, marketing and selling coolers and other insulated products and we let Rackspace do the rest."

“It was equally a technology implementation and a knowledge transfer.”

“We do things like cover space shuttle launches in high definition, something that even NASA doesn’t do. So when you go to our web site, you can get an actual 1280 X 720p streaming version of a space shuttle launch, or anything we can get our hands on in high …

"Fanatical Support to me is someone who is not just punching a clock, but someone who is engaged with the partnership in place, a team who is invested personally in how things go and holds themselves to a specific standard. I’m looking to Rackspace to fill that gap."

“Experience and the number of certified specialists were the most important factors in choosing Rackspace Technology, as well as their commitment to service, agile procedures ability to scale."

"Among the benefits we’re already seeing with Rackspace is the ability to be much more nimble with our release management process. We’ve also been able to restructure our human capital more efficiently — that’s lead to happier business partners and happier engineers alike."

“Our infrastructure is stable, it’s always there and we don’t have to worry about losing 30 percent or 40 percent of our compute capacity because of spot price fluctuations.”

“We ordered 600 servers and Rackspace got all of them racked and operational in five weeks. That’s an incredible feat.”

"We particularly use Open Source tools for application development. Knowledge of these tools and support for Linux and the Apache web server were also very important for us. Rackspace has that knowledge."

“The beauty of what we have built with Rackspace is that we are ready for anything.”

“The combination of Private Cloud and Public Cloud allows us to scale immensely, more than we could have ever hoped if we tried to implement these things in-house.”

“The good thing about Rackspace was that they were able to focus on the cloud lifecycle. They were very smart about how to roll out these capabilities to each business unit.”