Rackspace Reaches OpenStack Leadership Milestone, Six Years and One Billion Server Hours
"Over the past six years, Rackspace has gained more experience building, operating and improving OpenStack clouds than any other company," said
Scott Crenshaw, senior vice president of strategy and product at Rackspace. "The one billion managed server hour milestone is an exciting accomplishment and further validates that we are ahead of competition in OpenStack leadership and expertise."
The vast expertise Rackspace has gained while creating and running OpenStack clouds at scale enables the company to deliver customers the best experience with the following benefits:
- Superior Managed Service Offer ing : Rackspace delivers OpenStack private clouds as a managed service, architected like a public cloud and designed for scale and service availability to any data center in the world. This managed service model is backed by Fanatical Support®, providing customers with the power of OpenStack without the pain and complexity of running it themselves.
- Industry-Leading Reliability : Rackspace deploys and operates OpenStack in a fault-tolerant architecture with advanced monitoring, operational tooling and patching. This approach along with unmatched operational expertise provides customers with industry-leading service level agreements (SLAs) including a 99.99 percent OpenStack API Uptime guarantee and a 100 percent Network Uptime Guarantee when hosted in a Rackspace operated data center.
- Unmatched Scalability : Rackspace operates the world's largest OpenStack cloud and has more than one billion server hours of experience operating OpenStack clouds at scale. This unmatched experience at scale means that Rackspace has identified and eliminated scalability limits within OpenStack that no other company has yet encountered. This expertise enables Rackspace to more effectively customize the thousands of configuration options within OpenStack to meet specific customer needs.
- Innovation-Driven Agility: Rackspace continues to lead and drive OpenStack innovation. As the leading operator of OpenStack clouds, Rackspace has unique insight from operating OpenStack at an unmatched scale and uses a tightly coupled operations and engineering team to deliver enhancements in real time. Through this cycle, Rackspace extends the upstream capabilities to meet unique customer requirements and helps drive OpenStack forward by contributing these innovations back to the community project.
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The breadth and depth of the Rackspace OpenStack product portfolio is unrivaled in the industry, including solutions such as Rackspace Private Cloud powered by OpenStack, Rackspace Private Cloud powered by
Today's announcement further extends the company's strategy to continue to lead OpenStack innovation and drive enterprise adoption. To learn more about the Rackspace one billion server hour milestone, please visit Rackspace Blog.
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Rackspace (NYSE: RAX), the #1 managed cloud company, helps businesses tap the power of cloud computing without the complexity and cost of managing it on their own. Rackspace engineers deliver specialized expertise, easy-to-use tools and Fanatical Support® for leading technologies developed by AWS,
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