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Fully managed DRaaS offering leverages Rackspace’s multi-cloud platform to improve business continuity for on-premises, colocation and multi-cloud environments SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace® today announced it is broadening its existing Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for on-premises, colocation and multi-cloud environments. By leveraging Zerto’s industry-leading disaster recovery (DR) software, Rackspace will provide managed services for all aspects of...

American managed services provider Rackspace has appointed industry veteran Joe Eazor as its chief executive officer. Eazor replaces Taylor Rhodes, who led the company since 2014 but left in early May to become the CEO of facilities management business SMS Assist. He joins Rackspace at an interesting time, less than a year after it changed ownership and went private. “As soon as the call came about Rackspace, I knew that was where I wanted to go,” Eazor said. “I know the company. I’ve...

It’s been a tumultuous week at Rackspace. On Wednesday, the company appointed Joe Eazor - who worked with former CEO Taylor Rhodes and interim CEO Jeff Cotten at EDS in the 1990s - as its chief executive. And yesterday, the company made public its decision to buy enterprise application management platform TriCore solutions. Inside a Rackspace data center Changing with the times Like Rackspace, TriCore provides managed infrastructure services, but it also does consulting, outsourced IT...

PALO ALTO, Calif. and SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) and Rackspace ® today announced that the two companies have partnered to offer OpenStack ® Private Cloud with pay per use infrastructure, the industry’s first pay-as-you-go OpenStack private cloud, delivered as a managed service 2 . With this solution, enterprises receive the benefits of a public cloud - cloud-like utility pricing, elastic infrastructure and simplified IT – in a private...

SAN ANTONIO – Rackspace® today announced a strategic relationship with Google Cloud to become its first managed services support partner for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Google Cloud and Rackspace are collaborating on a new managed services offering for Google Cloud Platform customers that will launch later this year. The managed support services will offer GCP customers added cloud architecture support, onboarding, data migration expertise, as well as ongoing operational support for...

Achieved Highest Score in Strategy and Automation Capabilities for its OpenStack Private Cloud Offering SAN ANTONIO, TX --(Marketwired - June 22, 2017) - Rackspace today announced that it was named a leader in the Forrester Research, Inc. June 2017 report, The Forrester Wave™: Hosted Private Cloud Services, North America, Q2 2017. The report evaluated nine vendors based on 33 criteria, including current offering, strategy and market presence. Rackspace was ranked above all vendors in...

SAN MATEO, Calif. , Nov. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunstone Partners , a technology-focused growth equity firm, today announced the sale of its portfolio company, Onica, to Rackspace®. Onica is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) Premier Consulting Partner and AWS Managed Service Provider. Sunstone Partners invested in Onica in 2017, providing the company's first institutional capital. In just two-and-a-half years, Onica grew from 50 employees to more than 350 highly skilled...

SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- November 4, 2019 – Rackspace ® today announced that it has agreed to acquire Onica , an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) Premier Consulting Partner and AWS Managed Service Provider. This acquisition brings Onica’s innovative professional services capabilities – including strategic advisory, architecture and engineering and application development – to the Rackspace portfolio, complementing its existing managed cloud services...

LAS VEGAS , April 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Switch and Rackspace today announced a new agreement to deliver Rackspace private cloud solutions and connectivity to managed public cloud solutions on AWS, Azure and Google in Switch's highly secure and reliable Tier 5 ® Platinum data center PRIME locations. The agreement builds on Rackspace's Fanatical Everywhere and Pay-As-You-Go Private Cloud services that allow customers to run private clouds in any data center, with a consumption and billing...

SAN ANTONIO, April 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace ® today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of its 2018 Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Managed Service Providers, Worldwide. The Gartner assessment, performed by the firm’s IT industry analysts, evaluates service providers based on the completeness of their vision and their ability to execute. It categorizes providers in quadrants labeled Niche Players, Challengers,...

SAN ANTONIO, April 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace® today announced the launch of its new partner program, a critical milestone as the company lays the foundation for a Fanatical Channel TM . The Rackspace Partner Program provides partners with better visibility and access into one of the industry’s broadest portfolio of managed IT services and expertise that Rackspace has to offer, across the leading private and public clouds, application services, along with managed hosting,...

Dear Rackspace Customer, We have exciting news to share with you: Rackspace has completed its acquisition of Datapipe! We know that our customers want to consume IT as a service across multiple cloud platforms, in a way that is flexible, secure and cost-efficient. With the Datapipe acquisition, we will be better able to meet this growing demand and serve more of your IT needs. Datapipe brings important new capabilities to Rackspace including: Experience serving high-profile and highly...

SAN ANTONIO, June 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace® today announced the launch of Rackspace Colocation, a new service that allows customers to deploy their own hardware in Rackspace data centers. Leveraging resilient critical infrastructure, network and on-ground support services, Rackspace is focused on delivering true transformation as a service across applications, data, security and infrastructure. The new Rackspace Colocation offering enables organizations to reduce their total...

PITTSBURGH , Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- RDX , one of the largest independent IT infrastructure, cloud and database administration managed service providers, today announced the appointment of a new executive leadership team composed of three seasoned industry veterans. Mark Clayman , former President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of TriCore Solutions (acquired by Rackspace in 2017), has been named CEO. Gina Murphy , former Senior Vice President and General Manager of application...

HERNDON, Va. , July 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- EdgeConneX ® , the pioneer in Edge Data Centers, today announces its partnership with Rackspace to deliver a powerful combination of enterprise cloud solutions and the global EdgeConneX data center platform. This partnership delivers Edge-based cloud solutions to enterprises worldwide and facilitates cloud migrations with options ranging from dedicated bare metal environments to variable hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions from best of breed...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace ® has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of its 2019 Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Service Providers, Worldwide for the third year in a row. Gartner’s assessment, performed by the firm’s IT industry analysts, evaluates service providers based on the completeness of their vision and their ability to execute. It categorizes providers in quadrants labeled Challengers,...

Rackspace is now Rackspace Technology, the company announced Monday morning. The name change is meant to reflect the end-to-end technology solutions the company will now be providing, which includes cloud optimization, security, cloud native enablement and data modernization, according to a news release. Several acquisitions and strategic partnerships have lead up to the change, according to the release. The most- recent acquisition was of Onica, a Santa Monica, California-based Amazon Web...

Received 4 highest possible criteria scores within the current offering category and 4 in the strategy category criteria SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace Technology™ (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end multicloud technology solutions company, today announced that they were named a leader in the Forrester Research, Inc. December 2020 report, The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Managed Services Providers, Q4 2020. The report evaluated 11 vendors based on 24 criteria across...

SAN ANTONIO, May 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace Technology ® (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end, multicloud technology solutions company, today announced that it has joined NVIDIA’s DGX-Ready Managed Services program. The program certifies leading technology partners who are eligible to support enterprises that leverage NVIDIA DGX™ systems. As part of the relationship with NVIDIA, Rackspace Technology has also joined the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN). NVIDIA DGX systems are an...

SAN ANTONIO, June 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT) – the leading end-to-end, hybrid multicloud, and AI solutions company, today announced Rackspace is named a Leader in the Frost Radar for Healthcare Enterprise Cloud Managed Service Provider, 2024 . Frost & Sullivan screened over 150 managed cloud service providers globally, selecting 13 companies based on their growth potential and innovation in the healthcare enterprise-managed cloud services industry.