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Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Rackspace secures key channel association with AWS







In 2015, Rackspace chose that since it couldn't beat Amazon Web Services, it would join forces with the cloud mammoth. At that point a year ago, Rackspace declared it was going private, in a move that would enable it to all the more effortlessly move its concentration to its oversaw cloud administrations business. 

On Monday, the organization is reporting it's secured a key channel association with AWS, the most recent breakthrough in its evolving business. 

Since propelling its AWS business, Rackspace has chosen to "truly be joined at the hip" with Amazon with regards to proficient administrations, Prashanth Chandrasekar, GM of Rackspace's AWS business, said to ZDNet. The organizations, he stated, will "develop relocation capacity together, regardless of whether that is through consultative administrations or tooling, and give the capacity to go to advertise together - to pursue the green field of... IT Foundation on inheritance setups." 

As a component of their new assention, Amazon will select channel deals chiefs with the particular objective of sending Rackspace clients who are searching for administrations to help them completely exploit the AWS stage. 

Furthermore, individuals from the AWS proficient administrations group will really impart workspace to Rackspace at the Rackspace central station in San Antonio. The set up will enable the accomplices to stay aware of the interest and the expanding number of complex undertaking clients looking for proficient administrations. At the point when an expansive client needs to port over applications and information to the cloud, "that takes a tad bit of a town," Chandrasekar stated, noticing every one of the means including, for example, guaranteeing applications are working for the cloud. 

The organizations will use joint advertising improvement assets to build up their go-to-showcase approach for what Chandrasekar depicted as a long haul contract. The particular length of their understanding has not been uncovered. 

In an announcement, Terry Wise, AWS worldwide VP of channels and collisions, called Rackspace "one of the cutting edge pioneers in the AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner Program." The organization has figured out how to arrive by working up more than 800 AWS confirmations, likely making Rackspace one of the greatest MSPs, Chandrasekar said. 

While Rackspace extends its association with AWS, it's additionally developing its oversaw administrations business with other significant cloud suppliers. Chandrasekar said the organization's associations with certain cloud merchants are "not really to the inconvenience of others." 


"At last the client is the one that advantages here," he said.




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