Top Tech Talent Flock to The Rackspace Cloud, Supporting Rapid Growth and New Technology Endeavors

Joining from Leading Tech Companies Microsoft, Canonical, Yahoo! and Threadless, Geeks Migrate South to Drive Strategic Business Initiatives, Cloud Services and Application Development

SAN ANTONIO–The Rackspace Cloud, the cloud computing division of Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), today announced that six new key personnel have joined the company to spearhead strategic technology efforts aimed to position the company for continued growth and technology leadership. The new “Rackers” (as employees are called at Rackspace) bring significant product development experience from Microsoft, Yahoo, and Canonical where they held leadership roles in high growth phases in their companies, driving the development of Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo! Media, and the fastest growing Linux operating system, Ubuntu. more