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.
