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Rackspace Puts Microsoft SharePoint in the Cloud
February 2010 by Marc Jacob
Rackspace® Hosting announced the launch of hosted Microsoft SharePoint, the popular collaboration and file sharing platform, uniquely backed by Rackspace’s 24x7x365 Fanatical Support®. With the addition of hosted Microsoft SharePoint, Rackspace’s suite of cloud applications now includes business-class collaboration, email and storage solutions.
The Rackspace offering includes an intuitive control panel that allows administrators to quickly initiate SharePoint, add/remove users, and create SharePoint sites with only a few steps. The control panel also gives administrators the ability to manage Rackspace Email & Apps’ full suite of applications, including hosted Microsoft Exchange, Rackspace Email, Email Archiving, and Rackspace Cloud Drive and Server Backup, in one dashboard.
With SharePoint from Rackspace, employees can become better equipped to collaborate on projects and share ideas across the organisation, with a centralised place to store, organise, and access documents. Specific features and benefits include:
Collaboration and Social Computing – Allows teams to work together effectively, collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, implement workflows, and share information through the use of wikis and blogs.
Document Management – Organise your files and share with team members in one central location. Files are easy to locate when you need them.
Team Organisation – Easily customize for each team with workflows that fit your projects. Automatic alerts keep team members up to date.
Microsoft Office® Integration – Smoothly integrate with the software you love. SharePoint works with Outlook®, Word®, Excel®, and PowerPoint®.
Enterprise Search – Quickly and easily find people, expertise, and content within the organisation.
In addition to the new hosted SharePoint offering, Rackspace continues to offer Dedicated SharePoint through its managed services division for customers who require higher levels of customisation or control. Dedicated SharePoint is a single tenant solution, supported by a team of certified Rackspace SharePoint engineers who design, deploy, customise and fully manage the solution.
