Uxbridge, Greater London (openPR) 2 October 2010

Rackspace Hosting, the global specialist in the computer industry in the clouds and the hosting, it was selected by Vodafone to host and support the platform M-PESA.

M-PESA has developed a platform for a fast, secure and offer easy to transfer money from person to person and is a valuable service in developing countries, where there is little or no existing banking infrastructure outside major cities. It is now in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Afghanistan and Fiji and has more than 16 million customers.

Neil Dwyer, Vodafone Operations Officer, said: “Rackspace has a long history of being able to meet demand quickly and we look forward to working with them to this important service and offer more and more popular, it is important for offer us. Working with a hosting company, 24 / 7 support and comprehensive security. Rackspace has proven its ability to provide fast response times and allow us to adapt quickly and effectively to meet peak load. “

Vodafone has recently launched its intention to introduce M-PESA announced in other countries where traditional banking infrastructure is low penetration of mobile telephony and high.

Rackspace CEO David Kelly said: “We are delighted to work with Vodafone on this project and look forward to see how it develops over the world to people who currently support no access to banks in exchange for help, active to be the application of innovative technologies. “

Under the agreement, Rackspace uses streaming technology to send and receive satellite data real-time transactions with database servers clustered. It also offers managed dedicated backup server (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/managed-hosting/hosting-solutions/dedicated-servers/) all web hosting servers and applications.

About Rackspace Hosting UK (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/managed-hosting/hosting-solutions/managed-hosting/):

Rackspace Hosting is a world specialist in hosting (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/), Virtualization (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/managed-hosting/hosting- Solutions / Managed Clouds / private /) and the cloud and was working in the Financial Times Top 50 Great Place to rank in the United Kingdom in the past six years. Rackspace offers fanatical support its customers through a portfolio of IT services including managed hosting and cloud computing.

About Vodafone

Vodafone is the world’s largest mobile industry by turnover with about 347 million customers in 30 June 2010. Vodafone currently has interests in over 30 countries on five continents and 40 partner networks worldwide.

PR Contact:
Hamilton Brooke

PR and Communications Manager

4 The Square
Stockley Park
Uxbridge

UB11 1ET

0208 734 500

www.rackspace.co.uk

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