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, Visionaries, and Leaders. Rackspace was among the 20
providers assessed by Gartner, and is one of three providers in the
Leaders quadrant.
"In our view, being recognized as a Leader in this
Magic Quadrant for two years in a row is a testament to the breadth
and depth of our portfolio and our expertise in delivering
next-generation IT services," said Joe Eazor, CEO of Rackspace.
"Businesses within every industry are moving to consume IT in a
more-agile and cost-efficient manner, as a service, across multiple
public and private cloud platforms and technologies. We are
constantly adding new capabilities to help businesses navigate and
operate in this complex environment."
Rackspace serves more than 140,000 customers
worldwide, including a majority of the Fortune 100, and maintains
data centers on five continents. The company helps customers
through every phase of their digital transformation including
planning, implementation, ongoing operations management, and
optimization, across applications, data, security, and
infrastructure.
"We are pleased to be recognized by our customers
and Gartner. We feel it defines us as one of the pre-eminent
leaders in offering managed services for all of the world's leading
public cloud platforms," said Prashanth Chandrasekar, vice
president and general manager, Managed Public Clouds at Rackspace.
"Rackspace offers our customers a truly differentiated,
next-generation services experience that uses a broad end-to-end
approach to help accelerate digital transformation. Leveraging our
expertise across the world's leading hyperscale public clouds, we
help customers choose the right public cloud for their specific
technical and business needs based on a data-driven framework. We
enable customers to migrate applications in a rapid fashion to the
public cloud and then ensure the highest levels of ongoing
performance at the lowest total cost, using our cost and
architecture optimization tooling. We will continue to invest in
our multi-cloud technology and specialist talent to drive
significant value for our customers."
Rackspace now has one of the largest workforces of
cloud experts in the world. The company began offering managed
cloud services for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and
Microsoft® Azure® in
2015. Two years later, it expanded its portfolio to include managed
support for Google® Cloud
Platform (GCP) and the Alibaba Cloud. Rackspace provides distinct
offerings and varying service levels for AWS, Azure, GCP and
Alibaba, delivering 24x7x365 access to certified experts, tooling
and automation, migration services, architectural guidance,
deployment, advanced monitoring, proactive optimization and
remediation. Rackspace serves more than 1,100 customers across its
managed public cloud portfolio.
In 2017, Rackspace expanded its offering for AWS
to include Fanatical Support® for AWS
Professional Services. It also announced an enhanced,
strategic channel relationship with AWS to streamline the
experience for customers moving to AWS by providing solution and
migration advisory services, migration service delivery and
advanced migration tooling. As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner,
the highest tier within the AWS Partner Network, Rackspace has also
earned a range of AWS Competencies including Migration, Storage,
Microsoft Workloads, Oracle, DevOps, and Marketing and
Commerce.
Rackspace also expanded its Azure capabilities in
July 2017 to include more robust support for hybrid Microsoft cloud
deployments with the launch of Fanatical Support for Microsoft
Azure Stack. This offering provides a consistent and agile
experience across Azure and Azure Stack, including portal, API, and
service architecture.
In addition, Rackspace became the first managed
services partner for GCP in 2017 and was chosen as Google's
exclusive managed services partner to provide Customer
Reliability Engineering (CRE) support. The CRE support
offering will deliver greater value to customers by allowing
Rackspace engineers to work on everything from inspecting and
helping optimize customer code and design, to implementation and
operational procedures.
Rackspace's multi-cloud approach allows it to
deliver greater value to customers by managing multiple IT
platforms and technologies. In addition to its managed cloud
offerings for the leading public clouds, Rackspace's broad
portfolio of managed, next-generation IT solutions includes other
infrastructure solutions across managed colocation, managed hosting
and private clouds - along with services for applications, data,
and security. These services include database administration for
most relational and non-relational databases, technical and
functional support for packaged applications like SAP, Oracle,
Sitecore and others, along with Rackspace Managed Security for
advanced cloud security and compliance requirements.
For more information on Rackspace's position as a
Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure
Managed Service Providers, Worldwide, please view a complimentary
copy of the full report here.
Source: Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud
Infrastructure Managed Service Providers, Worldwide", Craig Lowery,
Mark D. Ray, et al., 29 March 2018.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or
service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise
technology users to select only those vendors with the highest
ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist
of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not
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warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research,
including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a
particular purpose.
About Rackspace
Rackspace is a leading provider of IT as a service
in today's multi-cloud world. It delivers expert advice and
integrated managed services across applications, data, security and
infrastructure, including public and private clouds and managed
hosting. Rackspace partners with every leading technology provider,
including Alibaba, AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenStack, Oracle, SAP,
and VMware. The company is uniquely positioned to provide unbiased
expertise on which technologies will best serve each customer's
needs. Rackspace has been honored by Fortune, Glassdoor and others
as one of the best places to work. Based in San Antonio, Texas,
Rackspace serves more than 140,000 business customers from data
centers on five continents. Learn more
at www.rackspace.com.
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