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Rackspace Leverages Red Hat Solutions to Provide Fanatical Support to Its Customers

Overview Rackspace Managed Hosting, the leading managed service provider, entrusts thousands of its customers' Web servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network. Founded in 1998 on the premise that Web hosting requires great service in addition to great technology, Rackspace initially deployed the legacy Red Hat Linux operating system. Now Rackspace has one of the largest install bases of Red Hat technology in the world - more than 5,000 servers.

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Publisher	Red Hat	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS

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