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Rackspace Hosting Launches Enhanced Partner Network
Colocation Sites and Top Server Colocation ProvidersHigh-density colocation data centers. Be sure that you pick a colocation site that has fully redundant power. Find secure, reliable co-location services to house and manage your servers and web presence. Choose dedicated servers, or rent rackspace for your own servers. Highly-available colocation facilities with security and virtual 24x7 uptime. Sources for server colocation, disaster recovery facilities, and managed network solutions can be found here. You maintain control over your web servers. Secure data centers offer dedicated server solutions in which the service provider monitors your servers continuously. There are Unmetered Bandwidth and Metered Bandwidth Options. Co-location, collocation, and colo are other terms for these services. Using a colocation site for your critical servers saves some of the overhead involved in maintaining a company's own data center. Colocation service providers offer a wide range of data center management options. Whether dedicated server hosting is needed, or if your company-owned servers are housed at the colocation provider's site, the colocation facility may allow you to manage virtually all of the server functions by remote control, including remote re-boot. Or, you may choose options in which the co-location hosting company is responsible for maintenance, patching and backups. Uxbridge, Middlesex (PRWEB) December 18, 2009 -- Rackspace Hosting, the world's leader in hosting and cloud computing, has restructured its global Rackspace Partner Network to help partner companies grow their business, better serve customers and realise a competitive advantage. Rackspace actively solicited feedback from its partners to make enhancements to the Rackspace Partner Network, which include a new tiered structure, highly competitive financial incentives, greater access to training and marketing resources.
To add more structure and clarity to the program, Rackspace created four levels of commitment based on company size and level of sales: Platinum, Gold, Silver and Member. Additionally, Rackspace is offering partners aggressive commissions and, at certain partnership levels, will even pay commissions on upgrades and renewals, a significant benefit many competitors fail to match.
"We regard partners as an extension of the Rackspace family and have updated the Rackspace Partner Network to help ensure they receive the services and support necessary for long-term success," said Robert Fuller, vice president of Rackspace's Worldwide Channel. "Rackers worked closely with our partners to develop a program that creates the biggest impact and provides the best experience for them, which we believe will in turn impact the broader customer experience."
Rackspace's enhanced partner program includes several features available for partner companies at any level of membership, including:
- Access to a dedicated sales representative - Sales and technical training - OnBoarding support - Access to the Rackspace Partner Network portal with exclusive marketing, sales and industry information as well as networking opportunities with other Rackspace partners As companies move along the continuum from Member Partnership to Platinum Partnership, the new Rackspace program offers additional benefits including:
- Access to a dedicated channel manager - Access to the searchable partner database on Rackspace.com as well as the database on the Rackspace Partner Network portal - An opportunity to participate in partner company and/or Rackspace generated marketing activities - Inclusion in promotions to Rackspace customer and partner base - Discounts/commissions on upgrades and renewal contracts "Sitecore has built its foundation on providing partners and customers with the best Web CMS platform, so it's a natural extension to partner with Rackspace for its unmatched service and reliable hosting solutions," said Jason Crea, VP, Client and Partner Engagement Sitecore, a new member of the Rackspace Partner Network. "Performance, security, scalability and price are critical elements for our customers in building and hosting websites, blogs, and other Web applications. Based on Rackspace's past successes we anticipate a valued experience for our joint customers."
"Q just entered its second decade of designing, building and enhancing brands online. Rackspace has been with us since the beginning, and we're excited to re-launch our partnership in the program and reaffirm our shared commitment to support," said Sean Breen, Founder and CTO, Q-Industries, a longstanding and valued Rackspace partner. "Rackspace continues to provide the critical infrastructure that both Q and our clients need to maximize ROI and minimize capital expenditures."
About Rackspace Hosting (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/rackspace-home/ ) Rackspace Hosting UK (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/ ) is the world's leader in hosting and cloud computing and has been ranked in Financial Times Top 50 Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom for the past five years. Rackspace provides its customers with Fanatical Support by delivering a portfolio of hosted IT services, including Green Hosting, Managed Hosting, Dedicated Servers (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/managed-hosting/hosting-solutions/dedicated-servers/ ), Private Cloud (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/managed-hosting/hosting-solutions/managed-private-cloud/ ), Hybrid Hosting (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/managed-hosting/hosting-solutions/hybrid-hosting/ ), Email and Apps.
For more information, please contact: Brooke Hamilton Rackspace Hosting 4 The Square Stockley Park, Uxbridge UB11 1BA +442087342574
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Factors to consider:
1. Do you need a carrier-neutral colocation facility? This means, usually, that the site uses multiple bandwidth providers, and that your company may choose its preferred provider from among several options. Ask, though, if they accept any commissions from bandwidth providers.
2. Power protected colo facility: the extent of power protection may vary between co-location services. The number and capacity of UPS units and generators is key. Are there redundant generators?
3. A range, from secure metal cages to which your key employees have access 24x7, to locked cabinets containing your colocated servers, down to partial cabinets or just one or two rack units ( 1u or 2 u ) should be available.
4. Tape backup services and other hosting services are available from colo providers, pricing may vary significantly.
5. Does the colocation company host both telecommunications and ISP's? Learn whether they have a diversity of clients for their managed hosting services. 6. Ownership. You can usually choose between a dedicated server setup, in which the hosting company owns the hardware, or an arrangement where you own the servers. The advantages of colocation mean that bandwidth comes alot cheaper than what you may be able to negotiate on your own. The colo service basically supplies the bandwidth, the IP, and power to your server, and the data center in which it's housed. The contract that you sign with the colocation hosting service should allow for easy upgrades. Your business may expand to require more e-commerce servers. Server operating systems may become outdated. You may need to upgrade your Oracle or SQL Server database version. A "U" is a Rack Unit, a measurement of the vertical space that your server occupies within a rack. One 'U' generally equals 1.75 inches, or about 4.45cm. A full rack may have 40 to 42 U's. The minimum rack space you can rent for your colocated server is generally 1U. The amount of data transfer that you contract for is measuted in price per gigabytes of transfer per month. The colocation service may monitor your servers for any or all of the following, which may be priced separately, or included in your colocation plan: Ping Tests Disk Space Checks Check IIS, Mail, and other services, and restart automatically on failure.. CPU Usage Memory Usage HTTP Availability |
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