Rackspace Email Division Hires Microsoft ‘Exchange
Ranger’
Former Dell Infrastructure Specialist Brings Breadth of Microsoft
Exchange Knowledge to Mailtrust
BLACKSBURG, Va. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) October 15, 2008 --
Mailtrust™, a leading business-email
specialist and a division of Rackspace®
Hosting, (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader and
specialist in hosted IT services, today announced the company has hired
David Bjurman-Birr as the senior manager of engineering, custom
solutions. In this new role, Bjurman-Birr will be responsible for
helping the Mailtrust engineering team maintain and grow the
architecture of the company’s Hosted Exchange
solution. Bjurman-Birr will be responsible for working closely with some
of Mailtrust’s largest Microsoft Exchange
customers, and architecting solutions that meet the needs of this very
complex customer base. He is a Microsoft Certified Architect –
Messaging (MCA-M), what some colloquially call ‘Exchange
Ranger.’
“David’s
background with Dell and his wealth of Microsoft training makes him a
perfect addition to an already knowledgeable and technical engineering
team that has created our Exchange infrastructure,”
said Pat Matthews, president, Mailtrust. “As
an ‘Exchange Ranger,’
he has received the most up-to-date and extensive training on Microsoft
Exchange and has been certified by his MCA-M peers. Given there are less
than 100 ‘Rangers’
worldwide, David has a unique perspective and knowledge that will be
greatly beneficial to our customers. He will also focus on finding
deeper ways to integrate our Noteworthy platform with Exchange, creating
a seamless hybrid solution that is customizable for any business.”
“As more and more businesses outsource their
email services to us, Mailtrust will require continuous infrastructure
evolution and maintenance to adapt and align with our customer’s
business requirements, and I am excited to be a part of the talented
team here at Mailtrust,” said Bjurman-Birr. “Microsoft
Exchange is the standard when it comes to business communication and
collaboration. My training and access to the ‘Exchange
Ranger’ community will help our team take the
Mailtrust platform to the next level as we strive to increase
reliability, interoperability, and most importantly support.
“Microsoft has created a great software
product in Exchange that we deliver with a rock-solid service
commitment. As Microsoft steps into the hosted Exchange market, it
indicates that the software-as-a-service market is reaching a critical
mass where it is becoming the clear choice for messaging and
collaboration and Microsoft sees the potential there. But as I expect
them to be primarily product and license focused, Mailtrust’s
10-plus years in the email hosting business has allowed us to create a
dependable service and support focus; built on a reliable and easily
scalable infrastructure. As Rackspace continues to offer more diverse
hosted solutions through Cloud and SaaS, we expect our Hosted Exchange
to be at the forefront of the email market.”
Prior to joining Mailtrust, Bjurman-Birr lead the Microsoft
Infrastructure Consulting Practice for Dell where he had worked since
2005, leading the planning, analysis, and implementation of enterprise
messaging and unified communications solutions that directly support his
customers' strategic initiatives. He has delivered sessions for
Microsoft TechEd, Dell TechSummit, and numerous regional technical
conferences and seminars.
About Mailtrust
Mailtrust™, a division of Rackspace, provides
small, medium, and geographically dispersed companies with
business-class email hosting. The company manages and maintains the
email service and hosting infrastructure, freeing up IT resources and
eliminating the need for customers to purchase email-related hardware,
software, and security services. The company’s
mission critical email systems are housed in Rackspace’s
carrier-grade data centers to help ensure uptime. Founded in 1999, and
acquired by Rackspace in 2007, Mailtrust is headquartered in Blacksburg.
To learn more, please visit www.mailtrust.com.
About Rackspace Hosting
As the world’s leader and specialist in
hosting, Rackspace® Hosting is changing the
way businesses worldwide buy IT. Rackspace delivers
computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry’s
best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing
more reliable and affordable. A trusted partner to companies of all
sizes, Rackspace enables IT departments to be more effective. Rackspace
is distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support®,
furthering the company’s mission to be one of
the world’s greatest service companies.
Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s
100 Best companies to work for in the US, ranking number 32 on the 2008
list. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed
hosting (www.rackspace.com),
email hosting (www.mailtrust.com)
and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com).
For more information on Rackspace Hosting please visit www.rackspace.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that involve risks, uncertainties
and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such
assumptions prove incorrect, the results of Mailtrust or 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
anticipated operational and financial benefits from Rackspace strategies
related to changes in leadership and implementation of processes and
tools; company or industry growth, the performance or market share
relating to products and services; any statements of expectation or
belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the
foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include (i) the
achievement of expected benefits from Rackspace strategies related to
changes in leadership and implementation of processes and tools, (ii)
the effectiveness of managing company growth, (iii) the potential for
infrastructure failures, (iv) any changes in the economy that negatively
effect our business, (v) technological and competitive factors that
effect our market acceptance, (vi) regulatory factors which limit or
impede our business strategy, and (vii) other risks that are described
in Rackspace Hosting’s amended registration
statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on August 5, 2008 and our
report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2008, filed with the
SEC on September 10, 2008. 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.
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