Apria Healthcare Collaborates with Rackspace Technology to Leave the Data Center Resulting in Improved Customer Experience an...
April 22 2021 - 9:53AM
Rackspace Technology (NASDAQ: RXT), an end-to-end multicloud
technology solutions company, today announced a collaboration with
Apria Healthcare, a provider of home respiratory services and
related medical equipment, to modernize its legacy IT
infrastructure resulting in a 32% reduction in operating costs.
Apria Healthcare collaborated with Rackspace Technology to
manage, modernize and secure its data center by consolidating and
collocating its existing infrastructure by leveraging Rackspace
Professional Services for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace
Private Cloud powered by VMware and Managed AWS infrastructure. The
move to the new infrastructure resulted in efficiencies, savings,
and bolstered their online storefronts with managed hosting during
the peak buying season.
“Part of the professional services engagement with Apria
was to produce a Total Cost of Operation comparison between what it
would cost to continue running their own data centers versus moving
to Rackspace. That comparison showed roughly a 32% reduction by
moving to Rackspace Technology,” said Jeff DeVerter, CTO Solutions
at Rackspace Technology. “We went from big old spinning disk
drives, which consumed about 10 racks of space in their data center
environment, down to a single rack of high-performance disks. The
storage runs faster and that positively impacts their applications
while saving them money.”
Apria Healthcare employees were maintaining the company’s
data center with legacy IT infrastructure to service its customer’s
needs. Over time, Apria Healthcare had to shift its employee’s
focus from IT to the customer as it realized that the energy, time
and money required to maintain its IT infrastructure and remain
compliant had led to inefficient use of human and capital
resources.
“Like most businesses, we really just want to focus on our core
business and have our engineers and architects behind our business
model and better aligned to create the revenue streams rather than
being in the data center game,” said Xavier Coto, Apria’s VP of
Infrastructure & Operations. “The bench for engineers, the
knowledge and certifications and attention to detail at Rackspace
Technology is second-to-none and we wouldn’t have been able to hit
our goal timelines if Rackspace Technology didn’t move as quickly
as they did.”
About Rackspace TechnologyRackspace Technology
is a leading end-to-end multicloud technology services company. We
can design, build and operate our customers’ cloud environments
across all major technology platforms, irrespective of technology
stack or deployment model. We partner with our customers at every
stage of their cloud journey, enabling them to modernize
applications, build new products and adopt innovative
technologies.
Media ContactNatalie SilvaRackspace Technology
Corporate Communicationspublicrelations@rackspace.com
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