Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition

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What is Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition?

The Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition is a new approach for customers looking to build medium-to-large scale private clouds. By leveraging the OpenStack open source platform, Rackspace customers can avoid costly software licensing fees and benefit from a continual stream of new and enhanced features being developed by over 100 companies who back and are part of the OpenStack foundation.

Rackspace are changing the game by giving the power and control back to IT by freely publishing reference architectures for OpenStack and enabling Certified Deployment Partners to build clouds to the specification. Our focus hasn’t changed and customers will still receive our world famous Fanatical Support, meaning they are safe and secure in the knowledge that they will only be paying for what they need: The Rackspace support in running their cloud, not technology lock-ins and software upgrades

This new approach addresses the needs of our customers looking for full control and high scalability in private, dedicated environments that can be almost anywhere—in customer-premise data centres, Rackspace data centres, or partner data centres globally.

Because this is the Private Edition of our Rackspace Cloud, we have based it on technologies and best practices that have been proven at scale. Rackspace is putting the power of the OpenStack cloud operating system into both public and private editions of the Rackspace Cloud, ensuring compatibility and interoperability across diverse environments.

By adopting the OpenStack open source cloud software, Enterprises get access to a software platform that's continuously evolving based on contributions from the industry's leading tech companies, without incurring costly license fees.

Fanatical Anywhere

One of the distinguishing characteristics of Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition is the wide choice of locations for your private cloud deployments. It’s now possible to have the Rackspace Fanatical Support on an OpenStack-powered cloud almost anywhere in the world.

Your choice:

• Customer DC: Most commonly, our customers want to have private clouds located in their own data centres, with OpenStack managed and run by Rackspace.
• Partner DC: You may have an environment in one of our partner data centers—Equinix, for example, has a global network of data centres where Rackspace now deploy and manage private OpenStack-powered clouds.
• Rackspace DC: Rackspace can manage a private cloud for you located in our own worldwide data centres using hardware dedicated exclusively to you.

Our Partner Ecosystem

Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition will be built by Rackspace Certified Deployment Partners who are trained to implement the tested reference architecture, including Cloud Technology Partners, MomentumSI and TeamSun.

Rackspace is publishing the Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition Reference Architecture for OpenStack to share the software and hardware configuration used to built real world clouds for customers. The initial design is based on tested OpenStack configurations and hardware from Dell & Cisco, and will evolve over time with input from customers, partners and the OpenStack community. The architecture contains detailed information about the logical and physical architecture of a reproducible OpenStack deployment. Rackspace Managed Services for OpenStack are designed to support clouds built to this specification.

Rackspace Ongoing Management

Once in production, Rackspace will provide Managed Services for OpenStack to remotely manage the cloud for customers including patching, version upgrades, performance tuning, and escalation support for cloud operations or engineering questions.

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