Rackspace Offers IT Modernization Expertise at VMworld 2018

danhoudek

Rackspace Offers IT Modernization Expertise at VMworld 2018

It’s time again for VMworld US! Thousands will descend on Las Vegas next week, seeking solutions to some of their thorniest IT challenges. One of the most critical: how to drive digital transformation, getting the right balance between modernizing data centers and extending into the cloud. From virtualized infrastructure to hybrid and public cloud, there are many paths to transformation. Rackspace can help you find the right path. Come visit us in booth #1025 or set up a meeting ahead of time to learn how organizations are benefiting from our innovative and market-leading products and services. We promise, after meeting with our experts, you’ll understand why VMware named Rackspace its 2017 Global and Americas Integrate Public Clouds Partner of the Year. Customers asked, and we’ve delivered: our expanded VMware Private Cloud as a Service allows customers to run VMware workloads on or off premise, enabling them to consume private clouds, as a service, in any data center anywhere in the world — their own, a colocation facility or a data center managed by Rackspace. We’ve also brought the benefits of public cloud, with utility-like service, enhanced capacity planning and instant scalability to enterprise customers with the industry’s first Private Cloud-as-a-Service powered by VMware, with pay per use infrastructure And if you’re considering VMware Cloud on AWS, no one has more expertise across both VMware and AWS than Rackspace. This expertise, combined with the capabilities of the VMware Cloud on AWS offering, deliver a unique value in helping our customers leverage these two leading platforms to their full potential. Set up a meeting at VMworld to learn more. As you’re finalizing your schedule, make sure to catch these sessions by Rackspace VMware experts:

Lessons Learned from Real-World vSAN Operations

Session HCI2736BU, Tues., Aug 28, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Per Thorn, Principal Architect, Rackspace Luke Huckaba, Principal Architect, Rackspace Rackspace uses vSAN extensively, both for internal infrastructure and as the default storage option for the Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware product, and manages many petabytes of vSAN storage, all running critical production workload. In this VMworld session, we discuss lessons learned from designing and operating vSAN at a large scale.

Automate Hosted Private Clouds Everywhere Using VMware Cloud Foundation

Session HYP2723BU, Thurs., Aug 30, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Per Thorn, Principal Architect, Rackspace Keith Duplissey, Principal Architect, Rackspace VMware Cloud Foundation provides not only a well-designed private cloud but also the automatic deployment and lifecycle management of the entire software-defined datacenter stack. In this talk, we discuss the benefits of using Cloud Foundation and how it enabled Rackspace to provide managed private clouds to our customers, both in Rackspace's and customer's data centers.

How to Prepare for VCP 6 – Data Center Virtualization

Session VIN1370BU, Wed., Aug 29, 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. John Davis, Product Architect, Rackspace Steven Baca, Senior Technical Instructor, VMware Join the authors of the VCP6-DCV: Official Cert Guide (VMware Press), to learn the prerequisites and paths for VCP6-DCV and VCP6.5-DCV certification.  They’ll share with you the tips for using a variety of available resources to address the exam objectives. Be ready to take a deeper dive into some practice exam questions that are intended to reflect the types of questions to expect on the exam. Sign up today to arrange a meeting with one of our VMware cloud experts at VMworld, and learn which path to digital transformation is right for your organization, or to better understand the benefits from having our VMware certified professionals manage your underlying physical hardware 24x7x365.