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Rackspace posts 21% profit for first quarter

Rackspace Hosting has announced its results for the first quarter of 2009. The San Antonio-based Web hosting company reported net income of US$6.6 million, up 21% from the same quarter a year ago.

Rackspace reported net revenues of US$145.1 million, up 21% from the same quarter a year ago. The depreciation of the pound sterling resulted in a negative impact of US$3.2 million on its revenue. The company gets 24% of its revenue generated in pounds from its operations in the United Kingdom.

Source: My San Antonio

UK based ISP Lumison has announced that managed hosting provider NetBenefit has chosen Lumison as its new data centre partner. Under the agreement terms, NetBenefit will provide its customers with secure and reliable managed hosting facilities and a resilient fibre network out of Lumison’s Croydon facility.

According to NetBenefit CTO Gerry Lawrence, the company was seeking additional data centres to meet the growing demand for its managed hosting services, citing “scale for growth, high resilience and environmental awareness” as key criteria for selecting the Lumison’s South London facility data centre. “I am particularly pleased that Lumison’s approach to environmental and carbon management within the data centre was key to the selection process.” says Dr Aydin Kurt-Elli, Lumison CEO

Source: The WHIR

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