Rackspace Announces Strategic Channel Relationship with AWS
< HONG KONG > - Rackspace® announced an enhanced strategic, channel relationship with cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) to streamline the experience for customers moving to AWS. Customers who are looking to migrate to AWS often lack the internal resources and expertise needed to move workloads rapidly and effectively. With this relationship, AWS and Rackspace are now able to work more closely to provide customers with their respective expertise, thereby enabling their journey to AWS.
Leading Managed Public Cloud Services Provider Combines Resources with AWS Professional Services to Enable Customer Journey to AWS
The strategic relationship between AWS and Rackspace consists of three key components:
· Solution and Migration Advisory Services – Customers now have access to AWS-specific technical resources from Rackspace to help plan the migration of their applications and data. Rackspace can assess current workloads including server types and configurations, network topology, evaluate security, governance and compliance requirements, and design the systems architecture from the AWS catalogue that is the best fit for the customers’ workloads.
· Migration Service Delivery – Rackspace engineers can leverage AWS Professional Services from a shared work space inside of Rackspace headquarters that enables Rackspace to efficiently migrate or provision new applications on AWS. This approach provides customers with the ability to leverage deep solutions expertise and ongoing operational support from Rackspace throughout the migration process for a wide array of workloads. Rackspace Advanced Migration Tooling – Delivered as a “point & click”, self-service interface within the Rackspace Control Panel, this software uses automation to enable customers to easily move various workloads to AWS. The interface and recommendation engine will also display optimal locations, instance sizing, and cost comparisons for the customer environments to be migrated.
“We have worked closely with Rackspace over the last several years and have been very impressed by their dedication to invest in the capabilities required to become one of the next-generation leaders in the AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner Program,” said Terry Wise, global vice president of channels and alliances, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Rackspace is a solid example of an AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner we’d recommend to customers who are moving to AWS and we are thrilled to align more closely with them to create value for our customers.”
Rackspace is a qualified APN Premier member and audited AWS Managed Service Partner. Rackspace and AWS are working with some of the world’s most recognizable brands to facilitate seamless migrations to AWS. SapientRazorfish, transformation partner designed to help companies reimagine their business, is a Rackspace customer that is leveraging the combined migration advisory, infrastructure optimization, and managed service delivery capabilities provided by Rackspace and AWS.
“Rackspace’s Fanatical Support for AWS allows us to efficiently and effectively move our customers from in-house infrastructure to a cloud-based hosted environment,” said Nishit Gupta, Head of Delivery, SEA at SapientRazorfish. “When we work with Rackspace and AWS, we can give our clients the proper technology solution which fits the bill. It is all about empowering businesses rather than actually just implementing a technology solution, and Rackspace’s support throughout has been invaluable to our clients. We are excited and eager to see how we can further leverage the strategic relationship between Rackspace and AWS, and to see where this can take us.”
“We are excited about the opportunity to work even more closely with AWS to enable companies to take full advantage of AWS services,” said Prashanth Chandrasekar, vice president and general manager of Rackspace Fanatical Support for AWS business. “As an AWS Managed Services Partner, Rackspace now offers customers a wide range of services including migrations, architecture and cloud automation professional services, in addition to ongoing managed services. We are proud to back all of these capabilities with Rackspace's industry-leading Fanatical Support.”
To learn more about Fanatical Support for AWS, please visit www.rackspace.com/aws.
About Rackspace
Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud 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 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.
