Case Study: Pangea Foundation achieves instant, scalable disaster-relief deployment and 50% lower TCO with Rackspace Technology

Pangea Foundation Leverages Rackspace Cloud Hosting to Deliver Instant and Scalable Natural Disaster Recovery Software Solutions

Pangea Foundation, a nonprofit SaaS provider serving over 1,500 organizations, needed a fast, scalable way to deliver disaster-recovery and information services for 211 call centers during events like the 2007 San Diego fires, the 2008 Midwest floods, and Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. The challenge was rapid deployment in fast-moving situations and the ability to absorb unpredictable traffic spikes without high fixed infrastructure costs.

Pangea adopted Rackspace’s portfolio—managed hosting, MailTrust email, and Mosso Cloud Sites—to instantly deploy its relief software (and the upcoming ReliefPoint platform) on a pay-as-you-grow cloud. The solution delivered immediate scalability and reliability during major storms, cut total cost of ownership by about 50%, and enabled cost-effective, high-availability services for nonprofits.

Pangea Foundation

Kraig Kuipers

President and Chief Executive Officer