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Rackspace Technology Delivers on Long-standing Commitment to OpenStack Community with Launch of OpenStack Enterprise
New offering builds on a heritage of open-source leadership and development SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ:
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[{"type":"text","content":"New offering builds on a heritage of open-source leadership and development\nSAN ANTONIO, Aug. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end, hybrid, multicloud, and AI solutions company, today announced a reaffirmation of its long-standing commitment to OpenStack® with the launch of Rackspace OpenStack® Enterprise, the only fully-managed, enterprise-ready cloud solution built from the ground up to ensure critical workloads are secure, efficient, and perform at scale. Rackspace’s investment in OpenStack empowers businesses to prioritize innovation over infrastructure, offering cloud flexibility at a fraction of the cost of competitors. Customers leveraging OpenStack Enterprise also benefit from Rackspace’s unparalleled support and expertise, ensuring peak performance and efficiency across their cloud environments. “Enterprises are seeking cost-effective, flexible cloud alternatives that provide a high degree of control, aligned with open-source principles and community-driven innovation,” said Josh Villarreal, General Manager, OpenStack and Kubernetes, at Rackspace Technology. “Our re-dedication to OpenStack tackles long-standing platform challenges by simplifying complexity and delivering a range of fully managed services that enhance accessibility. We strongly believe in the impact of open source and the value of collaborative community efforts. OpenStack Enterprise reflects our longstanding confidence in its ability to revolutionize the cloud industry and deliver top-tier solutions for our customers.” Over the past year, Rackspace has solidified its role as a leader and innovator in open-source cloud technologies by launching a comprehensive product roadmap for OpenStack and introducing frequent feature updates. The updates include a significant increase in upstream code contributions to the OpenStack community, aligning with Rackspace’s One OpenStack Strategy, which centers around using a single technology stream for the OpenStack products. The strategy’s alignment ensures that customers can seamlessly leverage each solution without a technology barrier between each product. Rackspace’s OpenStack investment legacy dates from the platform’s original creation in collaboration with NASA in 2010. To date, Rackspace has contributed more than 5.6 million lines of code to OpenStack and is on...