Excedent Selects Rackspace as Managed Hosting Provider
Email Host Relies on Rackspace Infrastructure to Deliver 100%
Uptime to Customers
VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2004--Excedent Technologies,
the leading provider of outsourced email hosting with integrated
security threat prevention, today announced that it has selected
Rackspace Managed Hosting as its managed hosting provider.
Rackspace serves as the primary infrastructure that powers
Excedent's email hosting and security applications, providing 100
percent network uptime. Rackspace's offering is well suited for
Application Service Providers like Excedent that need to guarantee
service to their own customers.
"We decided to move our infrastructure to Rackspace because of
their unique positioning within the hosting industry," commented
Patrick Matthews, CEO of Excedent. "They are one of the only
profitable managed hosting companies in the world. As a leader
within our respective industry, we wanted to align ourselves with a
partner that will be around for the long term to help us keep an
availability promise to our own customers."
Laptop Battery "Rackspace takes a very hands-on approach with its Fanatical
Support(TM) offering," explained Bill Boebel, CTO of Excedent.
"Working with Rackspace is like having an extension of our in-house
IT department located within the same building. Their engineers
know and understand our applications and are there to troubleshoot
issues within minutes. This expertise, along with
speed-to-resolution, prevented us from considering co-location
facilities."
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Thinkpad "Excedent hosts mission critical applications for thousands of
businesses and some of the most well-respected service providers in
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level of service and support we provide."
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Laptop Computers "After a wealth of due diligence, we feel that Rackspace is the
most experienced managed hosting provider in the space," said
Boebel. "They have an industry leading, 100 percent uptime
guarantee, a phenomenal customer support philosophy and a team that
was willing to work with our stringent demands. We evaluated dozens
of providers and Rackspace came out on top at just about every
level."
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And then, of course, we have the Standalone Server product, which is called Acronis True Image Server for Windows or Linux and that will manage a single standalone server. What type of computers can we back up, because in a medium to a large sized, even some small sized businesses, who knows what kind of computers they have They may have laptops, they may have desktops, they may just have anything and everything
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About Excedent Technologies
Hard Drive Excedent Technologies is the leader in managed email hosting and
security threat prevention for service providers. The company
equips service providers and their small business customers with
reliable Spam-filtered and virus-free email. Excedent manages and
maintains this critical communications infrastructure, freeing up
valuable personnel resources and eliminating the need for customers
to purchase email-related software, hardware or additional
bandwidth. The company is privately held and serves more than 2,500
customers worldwide. For more information on small business email
hosting plans, please visit www.webmail.us. For more information on
service provider and enterprise email solutions, please visit
www.excedent.com or call 866-EXCEDENT (392-3336).
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Excedent Technologies Inc.
Trevor Winters, 866-392-3336, ext. 89
t2@excedent.com
or
Rackspace Managed Hosting
Annalie Drusch, 210-892-4000, ext. 1234
adrusch@rackspace.com
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