Cloud Services Provider, Rackspace Technology, Debuts Cloud Management Platform, Equipped with Innovative Features for Managing Hybrid Computing Environments
Rackspace Technology, a NASDAQ-listed company, has launched the Rackspace Cloud Management Platform, marking a significant step forward in cloud infrastructure optimization. The platform, which includes next-gen upgrades to the Rackspace Managed Cloud offering, aims to streamline workload operations, accelerate digital transformation, and efficiently manage hybrid and multicloud environments.
According to D K Sinha, President of Public Cloud at Rackspace Technology, the upgrades provide customers with more insight into their cloud environment, greater efficiency, and the freedom to innovate.
Key Features of the Rackspace Cloud Management Platform
The Rackspace Cloud Management Platform is an AI-enabled, comprehensive framework designed to optimize cloud operations. Key features include:
- AI-Enabled Tools: The platform leverages intelligent automation and AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) to enhance cloud operation efficiency and proactive issue resolution.
- Full-Stack Observability: The platform offers comprehensive visibility across applications, infrastructure, data, and security layers, enabling effective monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Intelligent Application Optimization: The platform uses insights and automation to optimize application performance and resource utilization dynamically.
- Enterprise-Grade SLAs: The platform offers high reliability and performance guarantees to support critical business applications.
- Flexible Consumption-Based Model: The platform lowers barriers to entry with a scalable pricing model that aligns costs to usage, supporting agile cloud adoption.
- Integration with Agile and DevOps Methodologies: The platform supports continuous deployment practices and accelerates innovation cycles.
- Extensibility and Integration: The platform seamlessly connects with customers' existing IT service management tools and multicloud environments.
- Service Integration and Management: The platform coordinates multiple cloud service providers, delivering streamlined and efficient service delivery regardless of cloud type.
- Cost Efficiency: The platform employs automated controls and optimized resource usage to reduce cloud spending and maximize investment value.
Benefits and Enhancements
The Rackspace Cloud Management Platform offers several benefits and enhancements to workload operations, digital transformation, and hybrid cloud management:
- Streamlined Operations: Automation and full-stack observability allow organizations to proactively manage the complexity of hybrid and multicloud workloads, reducing manual overhead and operational risks.
- Accelerated Digital Transformation: By enabling agile development and cloud-native service adoption, the platform helps businesses quickly modernize applications and launch new digital products.
- Enhanced Hybrid Cloud Management: A flexible, intent-driven automation model and broad multicloud observability facilitate easier management of diverse cloud environments, improving scalability, resilience, and business continuity.
- Strategic Growth Enablement: The platform's flexibility and extensive tooling empower organizations to focus on strategic initiatives rather than operational challenges, providing competitive advantage through technology agility and operational maturity.
Rackspace Managed Cloud, initially launched in October 2023, underpins these capabilities by delivering end-to-end cloud operations outsourcing with enterprise-grade reliability and support, evolving with the Cloud Management Platform’s AI-powered enhancements.
- The Rackspace Cloud Management Platform, an AI-enabled framework, employs AI-enabled tools for enhancing cloud operation efficiency and proactive issue resolution.
- The platform offers cost efficiency by using automated controls and optimized resource usage to reduce cloud spending and maximize investment value.
- The Rackspace Cloud Management Platform streamlines workload operations, enabling organizations to proactively manage the complexity of hybrid and multicloud workloads.
- Rackspace Technology's AI-powered Rackspace Cloud Management Platform aims to accelerate digital transformation by enabling agile development and cloud-native service adoption.
