Rackspace Bolsters Enterprise Product and Service Portfolio

Enterprise Organizations Seeking Greater Performance, Flexibility and Control
Can Benefit from New Managed Hosting Offerings
SAN ANTONIO--(Business Wire)--
Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the world`s leader in hosting and cloud
computing, is enhancing its portfolio of services designed for the needs of
large enterprises with a focus on managed storage, disaster recovery and
application-level hosting. These new services are designed to meet the
enterprise-grade needs of large organizations across all industries with a focus
on performance, flexibility and control.

"Rackspace`s enterprise solutions can allow our customers to respond quickly to
market changes, yet stay mindful of risky capital expenditures and rapidly
evolving technologies," said Taylor Rhodes, VP & GM of Enterprise Services for
Rackspace. "We evolve our enterprise offerings based on customer feedback.
They`re telling us they need a partner to provide important but non-strategic
functions, and they want to buy them as services rather than pouring their own
capital and IT resources into them. We are now able to offer our most complex
customers solutions designed for their storage and data replication needs."

Storage and Disaster Recovery Solutions

Regulatory compliance, on-line transaction processing and rich media are just a
few of the factors driving an exponential demand for enterprise-class storage
and replication services. To meet these needs, Rackspace recently began offering
dedicated SAN (dSAN) and dedicated NAS (dNAS) enterprise-class managed storage
solutions.

* dSAN: Highly scalable storage, leveraging Dell EMC CX4 Array technology, is
ideal for databases and high transaction applications.
* dNAS: High capacity solution, built on NetApp technology for media rich
applications and sites and large volume file level storage.

Both provide high performance, flexible and fully managed storage services that
are customized for the mission critical data assurance needs of the Enterprise.

Rackspace has recently launched its Disaster Recovery Services portfolio. The
ability to recover and reinstate mission-critical data is a necessity for most
any enterprise, especially in the event of an unplanned regional disaster or
outage. Rackspace offers solutions to meet diverse customer needs and budgets.

* Host Based Replication -Data Center to Data Center replication can rapidly and
affordably recover critical data in the event of a disaster. Host Based
Replication is managed by a dedicated team of certified DR professionals and
includes a free DNS failover service.
* Enterprise Replication Services - Data Center to Data Center replication and
rapid failover for mission critical data stored using Rackspace dNAS services.
Enterprise Replication Services is powered by NetApp NAS and SnapMirror
technologies and is customized and managed by a team of certified NAS engineers.

* Professional Services - Rackspace has a dedicated Professional Services team
that delivers customized DR solutions for enterprise customers. For customers
seeking a customized, end-to-end DR solution, Rackspace offers Professional
Services capabilities that include application, database and full server
failover.

Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Solutions

Collaboration and email are critical to most all businesses, and the
applications required to deliver these services to the enterprise are growing
increasingly complex. Rackspace Messaging & Collaboration Solutions can provide
a better alternative to managing Exchange and SharePoint environments in-house.
Our Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint (Dedicated) solutions can allow customers
to free up resources while improving the uptime and performance in their
critical messaging and collaboration environments.

* Microsoft Exchange 2007-Dedicated and SharePoint-Dedicated: Rackspace has
enhanced its dedicated application hosting offerings, including Microsoft
Exchange 2007 and SharePoint. The service offerings include the design,
deployment, hosting, support, and administration of Microsoft Exchange and/or
SharePoint on dedicated servers by a team of experts.

For more information about Rackspace managed hosting offerings, please visit:
http://www.rackspace.com/solutions/managed_hosting/index.php.

About Rackspace Hosting

Rackspace Hosting is the world`s leader in hosting and cloud computing and is
ranked #43 on FORTUNE Magazine`s 100 Best Companies to work for in the United
States for 2009. Rackspace provides its customers with Fanatical Support in
delivering their portfolio of hosted IT services, including Managed Hosting,
Cloud Hosting and Email and Apps. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks,
uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or
such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of Rackspace Hosting could differ
materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements
and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are
statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including any
statements concerning expected development, performance or market acceptance
associated with our products or services, including managed storage, disaster
recovery and application-level hosting products and services; anticipated
operational and financial benefits from our products and services; any
statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions
underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include
the possibility that expected benefits from our products or services, including
managed storage, disaster recovery and application-level hosting products and
services may not materialize because the product or service is not generally
accepted in the marketplace, which could occur due to certain factors including
(i) a failure to market the product or service cost effectively, differentiate
the product or service from competitive products or communicate differentiations
effectively, (ii) the reliability, quality or compatibility associated with the
product or service, (iii) changes in technology which adversely affect the
benefits of the product or service, (iv) slowdowns in the general economy or
technology industry that impact consumer spending habits, (v) internal strategy
decisions that impact the product or service, and (vi) and other risks that are
described in Rackspace Hosting`s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2009,
filed with the SEC on August 13, 2009. Except as required by law, Rackspace
Hosting assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements
publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from
those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information
becomes available in the future.

Rackspace Hosting
Rachel Ferry, 210-312-3732
Rachel.ferry@rackspace.com

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