Rackspace Technology Selected as Strategic Deployment Partner for Next Phase of VMware Secure Access Service Edge Platform
June 23 2022 - 12:10PM
Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end,
multicloud technology solutions company, today announced VMware has
selected Rackspace Technology as a strategic deployment partner for
its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform. VMware will
leverage the Rackspace Technology “Data Center in a Box” solution
to deploy VMware SASE – a solution that converges cloud networking,
cloud security, and edge compute services.
VMware SASE will be initially deployed in 15 of the Rackspace
Technology global partner data centers with another five data
centers planned for additional phases. The 20 data center locations
include North America (Mexico City, Miami), South America (Bogota,
Buenos Aires, São Paulo), Europe (Amsterdam, Warsaw), Asia Pacific
(Auckland, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Osaka, Seoul, Tokyo), Middle East
(Dubai, Mumbai, Tel-Aviv), and Africa (Johannesburg).
“We are thrilled that VMware has selected Rackspace Technology
to roll out the next phase of its SASE platform,” said PV SubbaRao,
Vice President of Enterprise at Rackspace Technology. “SASE is
defining a new era in cloud network security. Our already
long-standing partnership with VMware just emphasizes the expertise
we are able to deliver simultaneously to help companies securely
leverage the benefits of the cloud, including Edge.”
The Rackspace Technology ‘Data Center in a Box’ solution
designed for VMware brings together other industry leaders –
including Dell Technologies, Digital Reality, Datacenter220, AMX
Claro, Web Werks, Iron Mountain, Equinix, and ZenLayer – to deliver
a solution that incorporates colocation, hardware, bandwidth &
support for global alignment.
Rackspace Technology Data Center in a Box features:
- A managed service that incorporates colocation infrastructure,
compute and support services for hardware, bandwidth, supply chain
logistics, global tax entities and support for global
alignment
- Turnkey deployment, warranties and project-managed delivery for
service and break-fix
- Ability to connect with any Rackspace Technology strategic 3rd
party global data center partner
- Source entire solution through only one contractual vehicle
increasing efficiency while reducing administrative cost
- Harness the Rackspace Technology robust supply chain to
expedite time-to-market, optimize cost, and secure the
highest-level OEM support w/ our OpEx Pricing Model
VMware SASE brings together:
- Network performance benefits of SD-WAN
- Integrated security services, like Zero Trust Network Access
(ZTNA) and Cloud Web Security (CWS), delivered from the cloud
- The ability to support modern distributed applications, all of
which will benefit from artificial intelligence for IT operations,
or AIOps, for faster problem resolution
“A key differentiator for VMware SASE is its global
availability, enabled by an expanding network of points of
presences (PoPs) operated by both VMware and our partners.
Rackspace Technology brings to the table the agility to design a
managed service we could duplicate across data centers globally,”
said Craig Connors, Vice President and General Manager, VMware’s
SASE business. “Partnerships are key to delivering cloud solutions
for the industry’s success and evolution and we are proud to
collaborate with Rackspace Technology in this endeavor.”
This isn’t the first time Rackspace Technology and VMware have
collaborated to deliver solutions for customers. Rackspace
Technology was one of the first VMware managed service providers to
launch a managed VMware Cloud on AWS. Over the past 20 years of
collaborating with VMware to deliver industry-differentiating
solutions for its customers, Rackspace Technology has continued to
evolve its services to meet customers’ growing needs. Today
Rackspace Technology offers a substantially broad and deep
end-to-end portfolio of managed services for VMware. From helping
customers to take advantage of VMware’s powerful capabilities
through its next-gen DevOps-as-a-Service for VMware, called
“Rackspace Elastic Engineering”, to deliver managed VMware
Cloud-based environments that have the benefits of public cloud, to
its solutions that deliver and manage VMware environments anywhere
including across key hyperscalers.
About Rackspace TechnologyRackspace Technology
is a leading end-to-end multicloud technology services company. We
can design, build and operate our customers’ cloud environments
across all major technology platforms, irrespective of technology
stack or deployment model. We partner with our customers at every
stage of their cloud journey, enabling them to modernize
applications, build new products and adopt innovative
technologies.
Media ContactNatalie SilvaRackspace Technology
Corporate Communicationspublicrelations@Rackspace.com
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