Rackspace Managed Private Cloud

Rackspace Managed Private Cloud is a solution designed to meet the needs of businesses looking to construct and customize their own private cloud environment. According to the vendor, this platform offers a high level of performance, flexibility, and security, making it suitable for businesses of various sizes. IT professionals, software developers, e-commerce companies, financial institutions, and healthcare organizations are among the many industries and professions that the vendor claims can benefit from the features and capabilities of Rackspace Managed Private Cloud.

Key Features

Private Cloud Flexibility: According to the vendor, Rackspace Managed Private Cloud provides businesses with the flexibility to build and customize their private cloud environment based on their specific needs and requirements. Organizations can select from various options, such as colocation and bare metal, to create a private cloud solution that aligns with their unique modernization goals.

Consumption-based Pricing: The vendor claims that Rackspace Managed Private Cloud offers a pricing model based on consumption, allowing businesses to shift from a traditional capital expenditure (capex) cost model to an operational expenditure (opex) model. This pricing approach enables organizations to pay for the resources they actually use, potentially resulting in cost savings and increased financial flexibility.

Flexible Transaction Capacity: According to the vendor, Rackspace Managed Private Cloud enables businesses to adjust their transaction capacity within minutes, providing agility and scalability to meet changing demands. Organizations can easily scale up or down their resources as needed, aiming to ensure optimal performance and cost efficiency.

Data Center Consolidation: The vendor states that Rackspace Managed Private Cloud empowers businesses to consolidate their data centers or move off-premises, aiming to improve cost efficiency, lifecycle management, and operations. This feature aims to help organizations reduce the cost of IT operations without the need for costly application modernization, while maintaining a secure and dependable private cloud environment.

Data Center Expansion: According to the vendor, Rackspace Managed Private Cloud offers virtually unlimited cloud capacity, enabling businesses to seamlessly expand their on-premises footprint. Organizations can develop cloud-native applications in a familiar environment, separate from production, and adjust their environment as needed to facilitate upgrade processes.

Workload Portability and Migrations: The vendor claims that Rackspace Managed Private Cloud solutions support workload portability and migrations, allowing organizations to run and optimize workloads in the most suitable location and on the best infrastructure without significant rework. Businesses can transition to the cloud without the need to redesign applications, scale their environment to other cloud types, and gradually migrate specific applications to a secure cloud environment at their own pace.

Mission-Critical Applications: According to the vendor, Rackspace Managed Private Cloud supports the maintenance and operation of legacy and mission-critical applications, enabling organizations to continue utilizing in-house developed applications in their private cloud hosting until they are ready to retire them. It also allows businesses to run industry-specific commercial applications in customer-preferred environments and maintain their third-party and run-critical core process applications and computing resources on-site.

Business Continuity: The vendor claims that Rackspace Managed Private Cloud helps organizations build resiliency and mitigate data loss through disaster recovery, off-site data backup, and remote worker solutions. This feature includes virtual desktop infrastructure and remote data center management, enabling businesses to replicate critical data in a highly secure, off-site data center for enhanced business continuity planning and seamless operations in the event of a disaster.

Data Gravity and High-Performance Computing: According to the vendor, Rackspace Managed Private Cloud optimizes the performance of applications and workloads that require low latency and intensive processing. It allows organizations to expand capacity in specific geographic locations, minimizing latency and network costs while maximizing performance. Dedicated resources are provided to enhance private cloud capabilities and prevent application timeouts from external shared systems.

Data Sovereignty, Security, and Compliance: The vendor claims that Rackspace Managed Private Cloud helps organizations optimize governance, security, and compliance by running each workload in the most suitable environment. It allows businesses to perform audits and certifications in their stable IT environment, obtain a fully managed private cloud environment that complies with global and local regulations, and avoid unnecessary migrations or modernizations that may introduce additional risks to their business.