Cloud Insights

Digital transformation is more than a buzz phrase or trend, and certainly more than a singular point-in-time activity — it is a perpetual process, and the term is ubiquitous in board rooms across all industries.   Financial services are no exception. Learn how they're competing and collaborating in this brave new world.

Rackspace was honored to be named one of VMware’s Partner Innovation global award winners at its Partner Leadership Summit earlier this month. For “outstanding performance and notable achievements” in 2017, VMware named Rackspace its global and Americas winner in the Integrate Public Clouds category.

Rackspace’s status as the number one managed cloud provider was reinforced this week when the company won the managed cloud service provider category at the 2018 NetworkWorld Asia Information Management Awards.

Infrastructure modernization often begins with the recognition that organizations need to begin a journey into the cloud. Too many find themselves technically behind, relying on home grown and self-managed data centers to serve students and faculty with legacy applications.

As more cities adopt “smart city” initiatives, offering more city services to residents online, and collecting that much more data, it is mission-critical to make data security a priority. Disaster recovery preparedness, which starts with accessible data backup, is the foundation of business and smart city continuity.

I’ll be in New York City talking with IT decision-makers about how to tackle those challenges. If you’re in the region, I invite you to join me and Jarrett Raim, head of Strategy and Operations, Rackspace Managed Security for a two-hour guided discussion. Sign up now.

We've created this quick quiz to assist your business as an easy guide to check if your current email security is enough for your business or clients.

Rackspace experts will be at booth #401, available to talk to customers about their needs and challenges, and share the insights we’ve gained as the world’s leading operator of open source private cloud.

At Rackspace, companies frequently ask us what to do with legacy applications that weren’t built for the cloud. The answer depends on the individual company and its goals, so let's dive in to determine the right answer for your organization.

Design thinking is a problem-solving process that focuses on solving the needs of a specific group of people: in our case, it’s customers.

While you’re planning your schedule at the Summit, make sure to check out Rackspace OpenStack experts at the speaking sessions listed here, and at our booth.

To be prepared, it’s important to consider these four things when expanding your global cloud presence, to ensure compliance from the start.