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Rackspace Open Cloud Platform Drives Significant Customer Interest in 2012
SAN ANTONIO --(Business Wire)--
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:
RAX), the open cloud company, today announced that its customer base is
expanding, as thousands of customers are signing up each month for the
company's open cloud services. With the complete suite of OpenStack®-based
cloud solutions now in full production, Rackspace (News - Alert) offers an open, fast
and simple cloud experience by providing customers with true choice and
control without the fear of being locked-in to proprietary technologies.
"We had an aggressive agenda for our open cloud platform in 2012. By
delivering on the goals we set for ourselves this year, we've turned our
vision into a reality and are now providing businesses with an
unprecedented level of choice around how to use the cloud," said John
Engates, chief technology officer at Rackspace. "As customers advance in
their journey to the cloud, they are becoming aware of proprietary
technologies that lock them in to specific architectures and vendors.
Customers today are realizing the power of choice, and delivering that
to our customers, along with powerful features, will remain a top
priority as we look ahead to next year."
The introduction of Rackspace's
open cloud marks the first time any company has deployed a
large-scale open source public cloud powered by OpenStack®.
Customers can now select from private or public cloud, dedicated,
virtualized or hybrid offerings and have the flexibility to deploy their
private cloud in their own datacenter, a Rackspace data center or
another data center of their choice.
The Rackspace open cloud platform launch featured the release of key
products in 2012 including:
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Cloud Servers
- highly elastic servers available on-demand
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Cloud
Databases - high performance MySQL databases
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Cloud
Monitoring - global monitoring for web infrastructure
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Cloud Backup
- file level, encrypted, compressed, automated backups for peace of
mind
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Cloud
Block Storage - predictable performance on standard or SSD drives
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Cloud
Networks - software defined Level 2 networking for increased
security
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New Control Panel - powerful, yet simple and intuitive
These join over 70 products and service launches, and updates Rackspace
released in the last 12 months, reflecting a commitment and investment
to innovation.
The Rackspace Cloud portfolio was designed using three main principles:
Open technologies that provide choice and flexibility to our customers,
high performance made possible by over a decade of experience building
complex systems, and simplicity - making all this power available to
customers and removing the burden of administrative tasks that add
little business value, while enhancing agility.
Since the open cloud launch, products such as Rackspace Cloud Servers
have experienced significant adoption. This solution, which delivers
increased efficiency, scalability and agility to customers, is helping
organizations of all sizes build advanced loud applications that can be
integrated with dedicated infrastructure to deliver true Hybrid clouds.
All the products and the new capabilities in the Rackspace Cloud
portfolio are supported by the legendary Fanatical Support® and
are also available under a managed service level that makes our
expertise available to design, plan, deploy, optimize and maintain the
environments our customers rely on for business critical applications.
"This year, we transitioned nearly all of our servers to the Rackspace
open cloud and that decision continues to drive significant business
value for our organization," said Evan Sims, senior developer at
Ushahidi. "With Rackspace's open cloud platform, we're not concerned
with vendor lock-in, we've seen a dramatic increase in server uptime,
and the quality of support is unlike anything we've experienced with
other cloud providers."
Rackspace has also seen strong adoption of Cloud Databases, as the
solution simplifies application development by offering pre-configured
MySQL databases in the cloud that deliver high performance.
"The Sysbench benchmark tests we performed on Rackspace Cloud Databases
on MySQL show it outperforming the leading competitor by 2 to 5 times
under increasing transaction load, while our I/O tests on Cloud Block
Storage SSD service show an improvement of at least 5 times in
throughput over the alternative block storage service. These
characteristics make Rackspace's cloud ideal for databases and
applications that demand performance," said Vadim Tkachenko, co-founder
and CTO of Percona (News - Alert), the leading MySQL support and consulting company.
Through its open cloud platform, Rackspace is delivering a
business-ready cloud, which customers can use to effectively run their
business. With the open cloud, customers are building and deploying
complex eCommerce, cloud native SaaS, mobile and hybrid applications.
"A major benefit that Rackspace provides with the open cloud is that it
gives us the scalability we need to go from 10 to 50 servers as our
business needs grow, while also enabling us to take advantage of
dedicated infrastructure in a true hybrid cloud. Now we have the best of
both worlds," said Sunny Dhillon, technical operations manager at
Coastal.com. "Rackspace also gives us peace of mind by making available
a team of experts who deal with large scale web deployments every day."
This year, Rackspace also announced the release of its Private
Cloud software, powered by OpenStack. This software is designed to make
it simple and easy for companies to install, test and run a multi-node
OpenStack-based private cloud environment in their own data center, at
Rackspace, or in a collocation facility. Since its release only a few
weeks ago, the software has been downloaded by people from Fortune 100
companies, academic institutions, research facilities and thousands of
other organizations in more than 125 countries spanning all continents.
To help organizations build expertise in private cloud, Rackspace offers
training, certification and support services, as well as advisory
guidance to help roadmap a journey to the cloud.
Hybrid cloud deployments also got more powerful this year. Rackspace's
unique RackConnect technology, for example, gives customers the ability
to add a physical firewall to protect cloud servers, or combine cloud
resources with dedicated servers with as many as 32 cores and 1.5 Tb of
memory or massive SAN-powered storage. Now customers don't have to
choose between cloud and dedicated, as they can enjoy the advantages of
both technologies in one seamless deployment.
Following the successful launch of the Rackspace open cloud, and Private
Cloud software, the company intends to maintain its positive momentum
heading into 2013 by continuing to expand the scope of its
OpenStack-based solutions portfolio. In the near future, Rackspace plans
to continue to enhance its portfolio with solutions for high growth
opportunities, including Big Data, high scale applications, software
defined network enhancements and enterprise needs, among others.
About Rackspace
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the open cloud company, delivering
open technologies and powering more than 190,000 customers worldwide.
Rackspace provides its renowned Fanatical Support® across a broad
portfolio of IT products, including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid
Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. The company offers choice, flexibility
and freedom from vendor lock in. Rackspace has been recognized by
Bloomberg (News - Alert) BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and is
featured on Fortune's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. Rackspace
was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the "2011
Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting." Rackspace is headquartered in San
Antonio with offices and data centers around the world. For more
information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve
risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties
materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of
Rackspace Hosting (News - Alert) could differ materially from those expressed or
implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All
statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that
could be deemed forward-looking statements, including any statements
concerning expected development, performance or market acceptance
associated with the Rackspace open cloud platform and the products and
services offered on that platform; anticipated operational and financial
benefits from the Rackspace open cloud platform and the products and
services offered on that platform; any statements of expectation or
belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the
foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include including the
possibility that expected benefits from the Rackspace open cloud
platform and the products and services offered on that platform may not
materialize because the product is not generally accepted in the
marketplace, which could occur due to certain factors including (i) a
failure to market the product cost effectively, differentiate the
platform, products and services from competitive platforms, products and
services or communicate differentiations effectively, (ii) the
reliability, quality or compatibility associated with the platform,
products or services, (iii) changes in technology which adversely affect
the benefits of the product, (iv) slowdowns in the general economy or
technology industry that impact consumer spending habits, (v) internal
strategy decisions that impact the platform, products and services, and
(vi) and other risks that are described in Rackspace Hosting's Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, filed with the SEC (News - Alert) on November
7, 2012. Except as required by law, Rackspace Hosting assumes no
obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to
update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those
anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information
becomes available in the future.
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