Rackspace Withdraws from IaaS, Focuses on Support
August 7, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
It appears that Rackspace (RAX) is ceding the growing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market to its competitors, instead preferring to focus on supporting customers that are planning to build their own clouds. According to a Network World article, the OpenStack company plans to discontinue its IaaS offering while shifting its focus entirely to its existing managed cloud business.
One could look at this as Lady Luck not being on Rackspace’s side, but it looks more like the company is finally recognizing where its strengths-and weaknesses-lie. Instead of competing against Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (MSFT), Google Cloud (GOOG) and others making up the growing IaaS market, which Rackspace has been doing for the last few years, it makes a lot of sense for the cloud company to bow out…
Rackspace recently reaffirmed that it refuses to play the price game, instead relying on providing value and strong service to its customers. The announcement seems to make even more sense with this latest news. Rackspace will effectively cease its competition with all IaaS competitors and focus instead of helping customers build clouds…
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