The new solution will be offered on AWS and enables Rackspace to evolve its private cloud portfolio to give customers new ways of deploying workloads across public and private clouds.
“Enterprises can now run every application in the best location, optimising price, reliability, performance and security for every workload while using familiar tools, processes and APIs, which enterprises already use today,” said Peter FitzGibbon, vice president and general manager of Rackspace managed services for VMware. “We deliver this as a fully managed service, making consumption simple while delivering the outcomes our customers expect.”
This next-gen cloud solution offers greater flexibility to Rackspace customers to run each VMware workload where it’s needed whether it be VMware Cloud on AWS, in their own data centre or hosted in a geo-specific location.
“Every organisation is on a multi-cloud journey. Enterprises today have three primary choices when moving to the cloud – managed private, hybrid or public cloud. Regardless of environment, the trend toward using multiple cloud providers to meet business requirements is undeniable,” said Ajay Patel, senior vice president and general manager, cloud provider software business unit, VMware. “Rackspace has built the expertise and multi-cloud services portfolio to help customers succeed in today’s digital world, and the new Rackspace Managed VMware Cloud on AWS service will enable their customers to run production applications across vSphere-based private, hosted public environments, with optimised access to AWS services.”
The company says that it aims to deliver common APIs to any type of cloud environment so that enterprises are not locked in to any one-cloud provider. Its cloud API strategy, delivered as a managed service, removes barriers to enterprise’ multi-cloud challenges by providing next-gen multi-cloud.
At the end of October Rackspace expanded its portfolio of managed public cloud solutions in a bid to win more business from enterprises. The company says it is driving significant innovation as a managed service provider for the biggest hyperscale public clouds, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba.
