Rackspace Acquires Anso Labs, Takes More Shares of the Market
Rackspace has acquired Anso Labs, a cloud consulting and services provider and NASA collaborator, under undisclosed terms. One of the main reasons for finalizing the transaction is to create a bunch of inter-operable cloud services so that customers can move workload from one cloud service provider to another at will, giving them increased flexibility.
This is a move several cloud companies are beginning to make, realizing the need to address the changing demands of their customers. To this end, Puppet Labs has opened an Enterprise arm to its cloud deployment and management services, using some creative tactics for i
In 2009, Rackspace had revenues worth of $629 million and in a few days is expected to report its fourth quarter revenues, somewhere about $775 million. The company has about 100,ooo customers using web hosting and cloud application services, ranging from small and medium sized businesses to large companies like Coca-Cola, Target and Vodafone.
It wasn’t too long ago Rackspace celebrated its 6-month anniversary of OpenStack, working towards the common aim of creating a ‘standard way to deploy applications and connect clouds.’ A month ago, Rackspace announced its partnership with Akamai for the delivering of hosting, cloud and acceleration services under the umbrella of a “one-stop shop either as an add-on or as an embedded suite of services, as part of Rackspace’s full range of offerings across dedicated, cloud, and hybrid hosting. The initiative will begin with Akamai’s content delivery services being integrated with Cloud Files, a Rackspace service that provides highly scalable online storage for files and media.”
Another optimal move made by Rackspace was the creation and implementation of the CloudU Education Program, a series of monthly webinars and white papers on Cloudnomics among others, proving Rackspace’s insistence for imporving market share and a social responsibility facet. Rackspace is no innovator with the educational programme, but a follower of the trend instituted by Juniper with its Continuing Education Program and Cisco’s schools in India.
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