Rackspace Experiences Power Outages and Growing Pains; to Present at Goldman Sachs Conference

Rackspace, a public company (NYSE: RAX) that is a leading provider of hosting services and also aims to be a substantial provider of Cloud Computing hosting infrastructure, has experienced some growing pains. According to Network World, it needed to apoloze again for a power outage in its Dallas-Fort Worth data center that required a "hard re-boot to occur on a portion of our cloud infrastructure," Rackspace said. Rackspace previously suffered outages in June and July. Going forward, Network World said Rackspace  is reviewing its policies for maintenance notifications, and reviewing procedures and systems to ensure quick resumption of service in case of events like the one this week."We have invested massively in the DFW facility to ensure it delivers at a level you expect from Rackspace,"  "Despite last night, we feel very good about our plan and have high confidence in the DFW facility – clearly we have to prove it," the Company said in a letter to customers.


As migration to highly scalable cloud computing services steps up, users are increasingly concerned about reliability and security in the Cloud.


Separately, Rackspace announced that Lew Moorman, President of Rackspace’s Cloud business and Chief Strategy Officer, will present at the Goldman Sachs Data Center Techtonics Conference in New York City on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 10:15 a.m. EST.

John Engates, Chief Technology Officer, will present on a cloud computing panel at the Thomas Weisel Partners Emerging Communications Conference in New York City on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. EST. Audio webcasts of the events will be made available on Rackspace’s website, located at ir.rackspace.com.

Thanks to my editor, Theron Shreve for drawing the outage to my attention.