Rackspace hires high-profile cloud CIO Perkins
February 5, 2013
Grazed from Delimeter. Author: Renai LeMay.
Hosting and cloud computing giant Rackspace this morning revealed it had hired one of Australia’s most cloud-savvy chief information officers, former Altium IT executive Alan Perkins, in a key role to spearhead the adoption and development of the company’s solutions in Australia.
Rackspace is one of the largest global hosting companies, providing a range of services from eight existing datacentres located overseas, and as of late 2012, from a new datacentre based in Australia. The company provides infrastructure services ranging from dedicated hosting to private and public cloud services, as well as application hosting — such as email systems. Locally, it already counts prominent organisations such as Rio Tinto, Telstra, Australia Post, Monash University and Tourism Queensland among its customers…
For his own part, Perkins has long been one of Australia’s loudest voices regarding the adoption of the new generation of cloud computing technologies, courtesy of his time leading the IT division of Altium, a company which makes design tools for electronics manufacturers. Perkins was one of the driving forces behind Altium adopting software as a service and cloud computing platforms from vendors such as Salesforce.com and Google, and commented frequently on the adoption of cloud technologies at the company during the years leading up to his departure in August last year. He was the CIO at Altium for seven years, out of a ten-year career with the company…
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