Rackspace opens new data centre in Hong Kong

Rackspace has opened its Asian headquarters and data centre in Hong Kong. The data centre, located in the Fo Tan district of Hong Kong, will represent an investment of at least US$20 million when complete, inclusive of lease obligations and infrastructure, equipment and personnel expenses. The new data center will initially have approximately 9,500 gross square feet and will be expandable to about 18,000 gross square feet. The operation in Hong Kong will offer the full range of Rackspace service offerings including managed hosting, cloud hosting, virtualization, security and email services, storage and backup and professional services. Rackspace already has more than 500 customers based in Asia Pacific

The data centre in Hong Kong joins Rackspace's existing data center operations, including facilities in San Antonio, Dallas, northern Virginia and London.