Create the perfect infrastructure for your app
The public cloud changed computing history. The Rackspace Hybrid Cloud changes history once again because it does what no public cloud alone can ever do—it combines public cloud, private cloud, and dedicated bare metal computing and makes them work as one to:
- Fit your application, instead of forcing your application to fit it
- Boost performance, security, and reliability while reducing costs because you use the right tool for the right job
- Deliver an OpenStack-based platform for the flexibility you demand
- Allow you to start small and grow huge
The world needed this new kind of cloud. We needed it for our customers. So we created the world’s first hybrid cloud powered by OpenStack—which we founded—to go beyond the limits of one-size-fits-all public clouds, allowing anyone to build the precise infrastructure to meet their applications’ unique needs.
Now you don’t have to accept trade-offs. Instead of a few generalized public clouds, there will be a million hybrid clouds, specialized for each application and workload, and connected to all the others. The hybrid cloud is next. The hybrid cloud is best. And we are your #1 choice for the hybrid cloud.
Get started with your hybrid cloud now
Sign up for public, private, or dedicated and then add options to meet your needs.
Public Cloud
Powered by OpenStack
Control where you host your apps for flexibility and scalability with no vendor lock-in.
Get started instantly with a public cloud account, then add private or dedicated to meet your needs.
Private Cloud
Powered by OpenStack
Run in our data center, your data center, or any data center.
Download a private cloud to run in your data center or any data center. No credit card required.
Dedicated Bare Metal
Host on dedicated hardware to meet your exact compliance and performance needs.
Learn more about our Dedicated Bare Metal computing.
Hybrid use case examples
Hybrid configurations
Rackspace offers a range of hybrid cloud solutions, from out-of-the-box to highly customized.
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Whether you’re architecting your app's infrastructure, building it, or running it, we’e here. Our experienced architects and support specialists consult with you to help you create the ideal infrastructure for your application.
See what you can build
From simple, cost-effective setups to complex deployments, we can help you build your ideal hybrid cloud.
Cost-Effective Cloud
VPN Bursting
Dedicated Load Balancing
Enterprise Hybrid
Cost-Effective Hybrid
Dedicated firewall protecting your Cloud Servers, and a high-performance physical server for your database backend.
Suitable Use Cases
- Ecommerce sites
- High-traffic blogs
- Content management systems
- Database-driven web applications
VPN Bursting
Encrypted VPN tunnel creates a secure connection between your existing data center or IT infrastructure and the Rackspace Cloud.
Suitable Use Cases
- Collaboration or messaging solutions, such as Microsoft SharePoint® and Microsoft Exchange®
- Secure administrator access to Cloud Servers via VPNs
- Test and development in the cloud
- Employ cloud as a data replication target
- Use the Rackspace Cloud as a target for your disaster recovery solution
Dedicated Load Balancing
Hardware-based, dedicated load balancer and dedicated firewall. Load balances dedicated and Cloud Servers together. Size your environment to your average capacity, and use utility-priced cloud to handle peak traffic needs. Cloud Servers can be automatically added to your load balancer, allowing you to scale on demand.
Suitable Use Cases
- Unpredictable traffic
- Marketing campaigns
- Rich media
- Seasonal traffic apps, such as ecommerce applications
Enterprise Hybrid
Highly available solution for large, complex configurations.
- High-speed dedicated storage
- VMware-based Private Cloud
- Multiple security layers
- Meets various levels of performance needs
Suitable Use Cases
- Mission-critical deployments requiring multiple levels of redundancy
- Complex enterprise applications with specific technology requirements
Brands on the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud
Control and scalability
“Our hybrid cloud architecture, based on OpenStack®, gives us all the benefits of the large public cloud providers, as well as the control, QoS, and scale that we would get from a private, managed environment.”
Jim O’Neill
CIO, Hubspot
Flexible Hybrid Clouds
“Rackspace’s main differentiator is their hybrid model that allows us to quickly add burst capacity when our traffic spikes from major ad campaigns.”
Vashdev Vangani
Department Manger of Information Technology, Mazda North American Operations
Fanatical Support anywhere
“We flicked the switch, and went almost immediately from having zero traffic to millions of hits.”
Allan Parsons
Senior Systems Engineer, VEVO
Endless possibilities
“The options are endless and the result is that our online business offering can grow effortlessly to meet the needs of an increasingly techno savvy and pizza hungry audience.”
Colin Rees
CIO, Domino’s
Let us help create your ideal hybrid cloud
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Public Cloud
Power your ideas with our full suite of compute, storage, and networking products—all backed by Fanatical Support.
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Private Cloud
Need more control and security? Download our free private cloud software. We can help you manage your private cloud, in your data center or ours.
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Have questions about the cloud?
- What is cloud computing?
- Why Rackspace?
- Why choose the Rackspace open cloud?
- Visit the Rackspace Open Cloud Community