Companies are on a transformational journey inside and outside their data centres - adopting a hybrid approach to public and private cloud to deliver improved customer experiences, increase reliability and reduce infrastructure and operational costs. OpenStack has fast become a dominant platform for private cloud, but the complexity and cost of hiring talent to deploy and operate it themselves has enterprises wanting to consume OpenStack as a managed service.
"Companies realise they can free up money and resources for more strategic business investments when they turn their IT capital expenses into operating expenses," said Darrin Hanson, GM and VP of OpenStack Private Cloud at Rackspace. "When OpenStack is consumed as a managed service, businesses can remove non-core operations, reduce software licensing, and minimise infrastructure acquisition and IT operations costs."
Today's announcement from Rackspace further extends the company's strategy to make cloud computing simple for enterprises. By delivering OpenStack as a managed service in any data centre the customer chooses, Rackspace helps companies adopt private cloud to increase performance, simplify compliance and improve data sovereignty and security.
How it Works
* Customers deploy a Rackspace designed purpose-built OpenStack private cloud in any data centre, anywhere in the world, with a fully tested integrated modular rack of hardware, software, and services.
* Rackspace experts then manage the end-to-end deployment, monitoring and operations of the integrated solutions and help on-board the customers to their new OpenStack private cloud environment.
* From the floor tiles all the way up the service stack, Rackspace extends Fanatical Support(r) to the customer's OpenStack private cloud - fully managing the underlying OpenStack software, hardware and networking.
* Customers receive industry-leading service level agreements combined with the world's foremost OpenStack operational expertise from Rackspace backed by a 99.99 percent OpenStack API uptime guarantee.
"As a media capture, management and distribution service, it is mission critical for Encompass Digital Media to deliver a seamless and top notch user experience to our clients," said Robert Bond, senior vice president of product engineering at Encompass Digital Media, Inc. "The ability for Rackspace to deliver OpenStack private clouds through an as a service model is important as it allows us to deploy a fully managed cloud infrastructure service to our clients. The option to deploy production-ready OpenStack private clouds in the location of our choice can improve our speed to market and reduce acquisition costs. In leveraging the Rackspace product portfolio, industry leading OpenStack expertise and managed cloud delivery capabilities, Encompass Digital Media can now focus on its core business and deliver new revenue streams."
