Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers

April 15, 2013

Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as telecommunication companies."We're getting into the business of helping large service providers become cloud providers," said Scott Sanchez, Rackspace's director of strategy. "We're taking all of our accumulated knowledge around how to be a successful cloud provider and we're delivering that to service providers around the world."Additionally, Rackspace will make the OpenStack deployments it builds interoperable, in effect creating a federated cloud of linked OpenStack deployments. While the logistical and billing details are still being worked out, the idea is that a customer of one provider could use another service provider's cloud, allowing the customers to run their workloads in different locations around the globe.Along with NASA, Rackspace created the OpenStack suite of software for hosting IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) deployments, in which users can provision computational, networking and storage components, and not worry about maintaining the supporting hardware. Rackspace now offers its own hosted OpenStack service, offered from a number of locations around the world, such as in London, Hong Kong and Sydney.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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