Case Study: Rackspace Hosting achieves faster global collaboration and $411,000 in annual licensing savings with Microsoft Teams

Rackspace Hosting - Customer Case Study

Rackspace Hosting, a global managed cloud provider with about 5,800 employees, struggled with disparate collaboration tools that impeded teamwork across 15 offices and six business units. To standardize productivity and accelerate collaboration, Rackspace deployed Microsoft Office 365 (including OneDrive and SharePoint) and adopted Microsoft Teams for chat‑based collaboration and coordination.

Using Microsoft Teams and the broader Office 365 suite, Rackspace migrated more than 11 million files (27 TB) in six weeks with help from Microsoft FastTrack, increased OneDrive adoption to over 4,000 users, and unified collaboration across the company. The solution improved mobile coauthoring and file sharing, sped up response to business opportunities, and delivered measurable results—about $411,000 in annual licensing savings—while boosting companywide productivity.

Rackspace Hosting

Keith Fafel

Chief of Staff, Cloud, Apps, and Data