"We're going to package up what we know how to do in the public cloud and deploy that with service providers and telcos worldwide, and connect it together in a seamless network," Curry said.
We are among the few who do." Indeed, the effort, if successful, could be a low-cost way for Rackspace to rapidly expand its global footprint. "Right now, not too many have expertise in this area. "It really is more about a platform battle at this point but it definitely does have business implications for us," he said. Now that it has OpenStack and successfully spun it off to an independent foundation last year, Curry said the timing was right to help partners deploy OpenStack networks to expand the ecosystem of providers. Until a few years ago, Curry said Rackspace had other priorities and didn't feel it had a viable offering that was portable.
But Rackspace would like to see a growing ecosystem of smaller providers and telcos around the world on board, as well.Ī variety of telcos have asked Rackspace to work with them for some time, according to Jim Curry, senior VP and general manager of Rackspace's private cloud business. It has had noteworthy success as a number of players - including AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Piston Cloud - have rolled out OpenStack-based cloud services. As a founder of the OpenStack project, Rackspace has always said that getting others to deploy cloud services based on OpenStack was critical to its business interests. Rackspace made the announcement at the OpenStack Summit, taking place this week in Portland, Ore. On the eve of the biannual gathering of OpenStack developers and stakeholders, Rackspace said it is lining up partners around the world to build their own Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings based on the open source cloud platform. Rackspace To Expand OpenStack Service via Global Partners
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