BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - May 08, 2017) - Rackspace® today announced from the OpenStack Summit in Boston that it has collaborated with Dell EMC to deliver OpenStack® private clouds with leading compute and storage solutions from Dell® EMC®. This offer combines Rackspace operational expertise with Dell EMC compute and storage solutions to create an easy-to-consume private cloud as-a-service offering. It is the first step in an expanded relationship with Dell EMC in which both companies will help lower the barrier to entry for private clouds and deliver rapid private cloud elasticity through a revolutionary utility-based consumption model.
"Dell EMC is committed to providing customers with best in class solutions to simplify their OpenStack deployments while taking advantage of new innovations," said Jay Snyder, Senior Vice President, Global Alliances, Industries and Service Providers at Dell EMC. "One example of this commitment to OpenStack is our latest offering with Rackspace, one of a handful of our global Titanium partners which has unmatched experience in operating OpenStack clouds at scale. The ability to consume Rackspace® OpenStack Private Cloud as-a-Service coupled with Dell EMC compute and storage solutions brings enhanced best-in-class capabilities for customers looking to take advantage of the opportunities offered by private cloud."
With this offering, customers will be able to combine Rackspace OpenStack Private Cloud with leading Dell EMC compute and storage solutions including VMAX Hybrid, VMAX All Flash and Dell Servers, with future plans to include support for Dell EMC ScaleIO. Rackspace OpenStack Private Cloud provides public cloud benefits with the security, control and performance of an enterprise environment. It is delivered as-a-service with an industry-leading 99.99 percent API uptime service level agreement (SLA) and can be deployed in a Rackspace data center, customer data center or third-party location.
Dell EMC offers the industry's broadest storage portfolio, providing on-premise and cloud storage for every workload and every company size. This portfolio enables Dell EMC customers to run efficient, high-performance data centers today while enabling companies to meet the scalability and modernization needs of tomorrow.
In addition, Rackspace and Dell EMC are working to revolutionize the way businesses consume private cloud through innovative features including:
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Lowered barrier to entry - A low-cost private cloud as-a-service proof of concept (POC) that makes it easier and more cost-effective for customers to adopt private cloud from Rackspace and Dell EMC.
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Rapid private cloud elasticity - A utility-based pricing model that allows customers to add and remove capacity in a public cloud-like fashion via an application program interface (API), with the security and performance of a private cloud.