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Philip Cheek as UK Managing Director of NaviSite

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

NaviSite announced Philip Cheek as the new UK Managing Director.  Cheek will oversee management of the UK data center as well as lead the NaviSite sales and marketing efforts throughout the UK and Europe as the company accelerates its growth and offerings in the global cloud-based managed services market.

“We are thrilled to have Philip heading up our UK office. Philip has an outstanding track record of bringing operational and financial success to companies across a variety of industries, including enterprise managed infrastructure and services,” said Brooks Borcherding, President at NaviSite. “Philip will play a central role in leading our success and expanding our compelling enterprise cloud service offerings into the UK and beyond.”

Prior to NaviSite, Cheek was Managing Director at Globix Ltd for seven years.  He has extensive knowledge of the Data Centre Market, having worked at Infinity SDC Ltd as Director for Business Development and his diverse background includes working as Managing Director within an electronic countermeasures company and General Manager of a multi-national freight and logistics business.

“It’s an exciting time to join the NaviSite team, as the company builds on its significant managed and hosting services experience and impressive customer base to establish itself as a leader in the cloud,” said Cheek. “I’m looking forward to doing everything I can to enhance data center capabilities and services, and increase brand awareness in the UK and across Europe.”

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Rackspace Cloud Hosting in UK

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Rackspace Hosting Inc. hopes to become the U.K.’s first major cloud server provider , according to officials who said the company will expand there before the end of the year.

“Our public cloud business grew nearly 125 percent in 2009,” said Rackspace CEO and President Lanham Napier, who was recently named one of “America’s 15 Most Powerful CEOs 40 and Under” by Forbes magazine. “We believe the opportunity in front of us is massive and we have a range of services in development that will be attractive to customers and provide new choices to the market.”

Napier said he expects Rackspace to be one of the first of the major players to intall public cloud infrastructure in the across the pond. Cloud hosting allows companies to store Web content and applications on remote servers.

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