HPE and Rackspace Deliver Industry’s First Pay-as-You-Go OpenStack Private Cloud
November 13 2017 - 7:45AM
New joint solution makes private cloud 40 percent less expensive
than public cloud1
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
service2. With this solution, enterprises receive the benefits of a
public cloud - cloud-like utility pricing, elastic
infrastructure and simplified IT – in a private cloud environment
located in their datacenter, a colocation facility or a datacenter
managed by Rackspace, the private cloud-as-a-service market
leader3.
“The launch of OpenStack Private Cloud with pay per use
infrastructure delivered by Rackspace and HPE marks a pivotal
moment in the private cloud market and in the industry at large,”
said Antonio Neri, president of HPE. “This experience is the best
of the cloud and on-premises worlds, and we fully expect this
simple pay-per-use technology model to change the way enterprises
make technology decisions.”
According to IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Datacenter 2017
Predictions, “Pay-as-you-go consumption models will account for 50
percent of on-premises and off-premises Physical IT and datacenter
asset spending by 2018.”4
“With this innovative delivery model, Rackspace and HPE are
removing the barriers to private cloud adoption, giving customers
even more choice of technology platforms that best fit their
application needs,” said Scott Crenshaw, executive vice president
of private cloud at Rackspace. “We are proud to partner with HPE to
continue enabling customer success with private clouds. And, with
this common goal in mind, our companies plan to extend this model
to Rackspace’s entire managed private cloud portfolio in the
future, including VMware and Microsoft Azure Stack
technologies.”
Leveraging a “pay-as-you-go” model for private cloud means
customers pay only for what they use. It enables them to handle
unpredictable growth and bursts in workloads without paying for
unnecessary fixed capacity. OpenStack Private Cloud with pay per
use infrastructure, delivered by Rackspace and HPE, will help
enterprises take full advantage of the benefits of managed private
cloud, including:
- Pay-as-you-go pricing: Leveraging HPE Flexible
Capacity, customers pay for what they use in an on-demand
consumption model for infrastructure. This feature enables private
cloud customers to more closely align resources to growth and
handle burst capacity and traffic spikes without the need to pay
for additional fixed capacity. This flexible capacity model
delivers better cost than public cloud1, typically saving customers
40 percent or more versus the leading public cloud.
- Agility and instant scalability: Customers
maintain the performance benefits of a private cloud environment,
while instantly scaling their entire private cloud capacity in a
public cloud-like manner.
- Enable enterprise-grade security and
reliability: With a single-tenant model, customers can
eliminate the performance and “noisy neighbor” issues commonly
found in multi-tenant environments, and can more easily meet
security, compliance and data sovereignty needs.
- Managed expertise: Customers consume OpenStack
Private Cloud with pay-per-use infrastructure as a managed service
with an industry-leading 99.99 percent API uptime guarantee from
Rackspace. This helps customers focus on their core business, while
eliminating the risk and operational complexities of trying to
manage a private cloud on their own. As a creator of OpenStack,
Rackspace is the world’s largest and most experienced OpenStack
operator5 with more than one billion server hours of OpenStack
expertise6.
“As enterprise organizations continue to invest in both
on-premises and hosted private cloud capabilities, they are
increasingly incorporating a richer set of cloud services,” said
Michelle Bailey, group vice president, general manager and research
fellow at IDC Research. “In a world where digital transformation is
rapidly impacting every industry, enterprises need to both
modernize their IT and remain agile to maintain competitive
advantage. The OpenStack Private Cloud offering from Rackspace and
HPE specifically addresses organizations needs to provide security
and performance benefits, the cornerstone of a private cloud
environment. With Rackspace’s private cloud expertise and
service-first culture, they are well positioned to address the
needs of HPE’s large installed base of infrastructure customers and
help reduce any cloud migration risk. This pay-per-use
infrastructure is a new step forward in helping enterprises deploy
private clouds with improved flexibility and cost
transparency.”
OpenStack Private Cloud with pay per use infrastructure,
delivered by Rackspace and HPE, will be generally available in all
regions on November 28, with additional solutions for Rackspace
Private Cloud powered by VMware® and Rackspace Private Cloud
powered by Microsoft® Azure® Stack expected in 2018. For more
information on the solution, please visit here.
About Hewlett Packard EnterpriseHewlett Packard
Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables
customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most
comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to
workplace applications, our technology and services help customers
around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more
secure.
About RackspaceRackspace, the leading
multi-cloud managed services company, helps businesses tap the
power of cloud computing without the complexity and cost of
managing it all on their own. Rackspace engineers deliver
specialized expertise, easy-to-use tools, and Fanatical Support®
for leading technologies including AWS, Google, Microsoft,
OpenStack, Oracle, SAP and VMware. The company serves customers in
150 countries, including more than half of the FORTUNE 100.
Rackspace was named a leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Public Cloud Infrastructure Managed Service Providers, Worldwide
and has been honored by Fortune, Forbes, and others as one of the
best companies to work for. Learn more at www.rackspace.com.
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____________________1 Based on Rackspace internal pricing
analysis, savings are measured against the leading public cloud
vendor2 Rackspace conducted this analysis this year (2017)3 Gartner
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide,
June 20174 IDC, FutureScape: Worldwide Datacenter 2017 Predictions,
AP41339817, Jan 20175 451 Group, Open Source Cloud Platforms:
OpenStack, June 20166 Internal Rackspace analysis that measures
managed OpenStack server hours across public and private clouds (as
of Summer 2016)
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