Rackspace Technology Announces Strategic Investment in Platform9 and Launches Rackspace Managed Platform for Kubernetes
April 29 2021 - 8:00AM
Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end
multicloud technology solutions company, today announced it has
made a strategic investment in Platform9, the leading SaaS Managed
Kubernetes provider for distributed clouds, and launched Rackspace
Managed Platform for Kubernetes (MPK). Driven by a shared
multicloud vision, both companies will collaborate and deeply align
on products, technologies, and go-to-market activities.
“The investment from Rackspace Technology comes at a critical
point as the industry moves closer to a multicloud and distributed
clouds future,” said Sirish Raghuram, CEO of Platform9. “We
are looking forward to working with the Rackspace Technology team
to accelerate our customers’ cloud journeys. Platform9’s SaaS
managed Kubernetes, paired with the Rackspace
Technology team’s unmatched leadership in managed
operations along with Fanatical Experience™ is a game-changer in
distributed Kubernetes management.”
Businesses today are moving to containers and Kubernetes in an
effort to improve delivery metrics, accelerate digital
transformation, and decrease time to market. This transition to a
modern application framework often leaves businesses having to
balance between streamlining the delivery of critical applications
and infrastructure with delivering meaningful results to their
customers and shareholders.
“At Rackspace Technology and Platform9, we see the strain that
transformation and growth puts on the ability for businesses to
fully realize their cloud native strategy. It’s the often missing
technical and cultural components necessary for success that
inspired us to develop our first collaborative offering, Rackspace
Managed Platform for Kubernetes,” said Taylor Bird, VP of
Technology Strategy, Rackspace Technology.
Powered by Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) solution,
Rackspace MPK solves for these common customer challenges by
providing a:
- Single pane of glass for deploying and managing clusters across
public and private clouds
- Curated platform experience that provides frequently requested
infrastructure services for containerized applications
- Specialized support team comprised of Certified Kubernetes
Administrators versed in Kubernetes, Platform9, and multicloud
Bird continued, “As the shift to cloud native platforms becomes
more mainstream, we’ve seen an increasing demand for container
services that enhance the developer experience and simplify
operations. Our MPK solution is designed for customers of any size
who are struggling with the increasingly disparate experience of
managing container-based application deployments in a multicloud
world.”
Additional information and resources
1. Read technical blog2. Solution brief pdf 3. Rackspace MPK
Solutions webpage
About Rackspace Technology
Rackspace 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.
About Platform9
Platform9 is the leading SaaS Managed Kubernetes provider for
distributed clouds. With a mission to enable freedom in cloud
computing, the company delivers cloud-native technologies with SaaS
simplicity that are easy to operate and scale, while supporting
broad cloud capabilities that run on any infrastructure. The
company’s SaaS management model has been proven to eliminate
management complexity and costs through automated cluster upgrades,
security patches, and fully-managed monitoring and troubleshooting
across multiple points of presence, edge sites, and data centers
with guaranteed SLAs. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, Platform9
clients include enterprises such as Kingfisher Retail, Cloudera,
RedFin, Snapfish, Juniper Networks and Mavenir. For additional
information please visit Platform9.com and refer to the Platform9
blog. Follow Platform9 on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
Media and Analyst Contacts
For Rackspace TechnologyMedia ContactNatalie
SilvaRackspace Technology Corporate
Communicationspublicrelations@rackspace.com
IR ContactJoe CrivelliRackspace
Technology Investor RelationsIR@rackspace.com
For Platform9Janine Savarese908.461.5767janine@platform9.com
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