Rackspace Announces Microsoft Cloud Support
November 11, 2014
Grazed from ChannelPartnersOnline. Author: Craig Galbraith.
Rackspace on Monday said it now supports Microsoft’s cloud platform, including System Center, Hyper-V, Windows Azure Pack and Windows Server, in all of its U.S. data centers. Part of its managed cloud strategy, Rackspace says the move gives customers options, whether it be the company’s own OpenStack-powered Rackspace Private Cloud, or Microsoft technology.
“Rackspace customers who use Microsoft software tend to be looking for the ‘whole package,’ meaning they want a place to host their servers along with a partner who can work with them to ensure they run better here than anywhere else in the world, wrote Rackspace’s Jeff DeVerter, in a blog…
“Microsoft’s cloud platform does what traditional operating systems do – it manages applications and hardware – but at the scope and scale of cloud computing. That is exactly what we have now – world-class Microsoft cloud platform technology backed by an army of ‘Rackers’ passionate about building and managing those clouds." The company also announced on Monday that is now a member of the Microsoft Cloud OS Network…
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