Rackspace and Pure Storage Collaborating

Rackspace US, Inc. is aligning efforts with Pure Storage, Inc. to help accelerate the value of customers’ hybrid-cloud environments with the launch of the Ultra-Fast Performance Rackspace Block Storage solution.

This collaboration makes Rackspace the largest global MSP member of the Pure Partner Program.

The Ultra-Fast Performance Rackspace Block Storage solution provides customers with fast access to their storage, hybrid-cloud connectivity and low latency for workloads where performance cannot be compromised. Customers can leverage this offering as they progress along their cloud journey to get extensive data portability across multiple platforms and bring products to market faster. This offering advances Rackspace’s strategy of helping customers get to the cloud and maximize their IT investment by allowing them to migrate mission critical workloads such as e-commerce, databases, DR, AI, machine learning and IoT to Rackspace’s infrastructure, while maintaining performance and availability.

“This partnership is allowing us to bring together two big disruptors in the next-gen cloud services and storage industries,” said Prashanth Chandrasekar, SVP and GM, Rackspace. “We’re excited to partner with Pure Storage to bring a fast, high performance solution to market that gives our customers the ability to make progress on their respective hybrid cloud journeys.“

The Ultra-Fast Performance Rackspace Block Storage solution is helping customers address a variety of storage challenges by providing features and benefits including:

• Hybrid-Cloud Transformation: With this offering, the company will help customers migrate, secure and optimize their hybrid-cloud environments with unbiased expertise.
• Enterprise Level Security: Pure Storage’s Purity Operating Environment secures data at highest standard, providing customers with peace of mind that their data is residing with a trusted partner.

“This collaboration with Rackspace is helping to address a major customer need in the market,” said Jack Hogan, VP of technology strategy, Pure Storage. “Our goal is to help customers unleash the full power of storage in a way that helps them drive their business forward. The combination of our industry-leading storage technology, the go-to-market support of the Pure Partner Program, and Rackspace’s managed services and hybrid-cloud transformation expertise provide a differentiated, supported solution that empowers customers along their cloud journey.“

The Ultra-Fast Performance Rackspace Block Storage solution is available to customers in the US, UK and APAC.