SAN ANTONIO, Jun 20, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Rackspace(R) Hosting
RAX
+5.59%
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the open cloud
company, has hired IT industry heavyweight Todd Cione to lead the firm's
Americas Acquisition Sales division. Cione brings more than two decades
of experience developing successful sales and support teams across broad
geographies. He spent his last 15 years at Microsoft, most recently
based in Singapore and responsible for $4 billion in annual revenue for
software, cloud services and enterprise services.
At Rackspace, Cione's mission is to accelerate market-share gains and
acquisition of new customers in the Americas, via both direct and
channel sales. Cione will take the lead in leveraging Rackspace's
unmatched value proposition. Rackspace is a world leader in hybrid
cloud, which offers customers the best fit for each of their workloads,
whether on public cloud, private cloud or dedicated servers. Rackspace
is the founder of OpenStack, the open-source cloud operating system,
which enables hybrid cloud by allowing customers to move workloads
seamlessly from one platform to another, free from vendor lock-in. All
Rackspace services are backed by its industry-leading customer service,
known as Fanatical Support(R).
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