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Rackspace is aligning efforts with Pivotal to deliver Managed Pivotal Cloud Foundry to enterprise customers.
This new Rackspace solution will help enterprises use Pivotal Cloud Foundry, a cloud-native platform, to quickly build and deploy applications at scale. Rackspace will manage Pivotal Cloud Foundry on any public or private cloud, as well as on customer-owned infrastructure.
“Fortune 500 customers using Pivotal Cloud Foundry to build, deploy, and run their legacy and cloud-native apps have experienced 2,000 percent increase in developer productivity, as well as a 50 percent reduction in IT costs due to platform automation,” said Bill Cook, President and COO, Pivotal. “Since moving at startup speeds is on the minds of every business and government organization, the collaboration between Pivotal and Rackspace would provide customers the option to manage their cloud environment, so they can focus on rapidly shipping code.”
With Managed Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Rackspace intends to deploy and operate a fully-managed Pivotal Cloud Foundry solution across any infrastructure selected by the customer. This approach allows customers to achieve greater business agility and accelerated application delivery.
The operational benefits of Managed Pivotal Cloud Foundry include:
- 24x7x365 Comprehensive Management – Customers who don’t want to hire and dedicate resources for managing Pivotal Cloud Foundry will be able to completely offload operations and management tasks to Rackspace. Those tasks include troubleshooting, managing upgrades and feature releases and integrating various services—such as MySQL, Redis and RabbitMQ—with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. This model will allow users to focus their scarce engineering talent on the tasks that differentiate their business, such as product development and customer service, rather than on management of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, yielding higher cost-effectiveness and speed-to-market.
- Multi-Cloud Capability – Customers who need a managed, multi-cloud deployment will be able to leverage support for leading public and private clouds as well as dedicated hardware. Rackspace will manage Pivotal Cloud Foundry on customer-owned infrastructure as well as any public or private cloud infrastructure, including those powered by Amazon Web Services® (AWS), Google Cloud Platform®(GCP), Microsoft® Azure®, Microsoft Azure Stack®, Microsoft Private Cloud, VMware®, Rackspace OpenStack Private Cloud and Rackspace OpenStack Public Cloud.
- On-Demand Expertise – Rackspace experts will handle Pivotal Cloud Foundry version upgrades, feature enhancements and other technical updates as they arise. Rackspace will help customers hit the ground running with rapid deployment and offer SLAs of 99.99 percent uptime with a 15-minute response time for emergency issues.
“Most organizations want to deliver application features more quickly and efficiently while modernizing their architectures, but getting there isn’t always easy,” said Brannon Lacey, VP of Applications and Platforms at Rackspace. “Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a valuable platform that can help businesses achieve their development goals more effectively. Managed Pivotal Cloud Foundry from Rackspace makes this technology, and its benefits, accessible to developers in organizations of all types and sizes, regardless of their expertise and experience with the platform.”
“Managed Pivotal Cloud Foundry is Rackspace’s first step into the managed platform space, as we move up the stack to solutions that customers want our help with,” continued Lacey. “It is a solution that helps customers get up and running on Pivotal Cloud Foundry quickly and stay up and running, with operational support and proactive monitoring. This way, in-house teams can focus on innovation and getting out to market quickly while Rackspace handles the backend.”
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