My Thoughts

My Parent Company is [Finally] Blogging

Rackspace launched a corporate blog today. I'm really happy to see this. Rackspace is a great company and I think they need a stronger voice in the industry. Blogging should help.

Here is the feed to plug into your RSS reader if you want to subscribe.

Rackspace, One of the Best Places to Work in America

We decided to merge our business with Rackspace last year for many reasons. One of the biggest reasons was the fact that Rackspace was actually a place where we wanted to work (if this wasn't the case, it would have been an instant deal breaker). In fact, one of the questions that Bill, Kevin, and I constantly pondered during our "should we sell the business to them?" meetings we had throughout 2007 was, "do we really want to go work for them?" There are very few companies in this world that I could see myself working for, but Rackspace is different. When you walk into Rackspace headquarters in San Antonio, it feels remarkably similar to when you walk into our offices here in Blacksburg. We share the same vision, the same values, and we hire the same types of people. The end result is that our cultures end up being very similar, i.e. awesome! Although Rackspace is much bigger and a little more "corporate", you can tell it's a unique place to work. So it was no surprise to me when I found out that Rackspace is now ranked # 32 on Fortune's Best 100 Companies to Work for in America.

Now we've been recognized locally as the best technology company to work for in Southwest Virginia and nationally as one of best companies (of any kind) to work for in America. Congratulations to all of us. This is a huge honor and just a little more validation that joining forces was the right choice.

Here is a Rackspace video talking about the award.