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Rackspace helps BMG rock with Google cloud

Posted on January 18, 2024 by - News

BMG, the music giant behind stars like Kylie Minogue, Iron Maiden, and Dua Lipa, has partnered with Rackspace Technology to revolutionise the music industry with Google Cloud.

The world’s fourth-biggest music company has moved 95 per cent of its apps and services to Google Cloud, using  Rackspace Technology’s Elastic Engineering team.

This means BMG can pay its artists and songwriters ten times faster and track their music 50 per cent faster than before, using Google Cloud’s cutting-edge AI and big data tools.

BMG has ditched its old distribution partners and struck direct deals with streaming giants like Spotify and Apple, giving its clients more control and access to their data.

Rackspace releases new product for partners

Posted on December 13, 2023 by - News

Cloudy Rackspace has launched its SDDC (Software Defined Data Centre) Enterprise and Business for SAP with VMware virtualised computing, storage, network, and cloud management products for its channel partners.

The multi-tenant VMware solutions enable business-critical SAP and SAP HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) environments with a fully integrated hardware and software stack for private clouds. The enterprise-ready grade solution and SAP-certified pre-configuration based on Dell VxRail is a turnkey experience that enables innovation.

Rackspace releases FAIR Learn

Posted on July 19, 2023 by - News

Cloudy Rackspace Technology today announced the launch of FAIR Learn as part of the overall Foundry for Generative AI by Rackspace.

The innovative AI literacy programme is designed to heighten Rackspace employees’ comprehension of the basic principles of AI, potential use cases, and limitations to harness the power creatively, responsibly, and sustainably. Rackspace Technology believes the programme will drive meaningful outcomes for customers and effectively integrate AI into the company’s operations.

The FAIR Learn programme has four levels: AI-Ready, AI-Business, AI-Specialist, and AI-Expert. Each level has recommended courses from LinkedIn Learning and Cloud Service Providers. When the learner completes these courses, they will receive Digital Credentials from FAIR that can be shared on LinkedIn, Threads, Twitter, and other social media.

Rackspace partners with HTCE on AI

Posted on April 14, 2023 by - News

Rackspace Technology claims to have become the first managed service provider to develop a partnership agreement with the AI Innovation Centre of High Tech Campus Eindhoven (HTCE).

For those who came in late, HTCE is deemed “the smartest square km in Europe” which is an ecosystem of nearly 300 tech companies and home to more than 12,500 international researchers, developers, businesspeople, innovators, and engineers devoted to knowledge sharing.

HTCE is a global tech incubator in Health & Vitality, Sustainability, Applied Intelligence, Smart Environments and Connectivity, and Software & Platforms.

Rackspace will be part of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Innovation Centre of HTCE, which opened in April 2021 to industrialise AI in the Brainport Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. The AI Innovation Centre and its partners help companies start and accelerate their AI journey.

The AI Centre is home to 13 AI-specialised companies and a wide variety of industrial and knowledge partners and was co-founded by Philips, Signify, NXP, and ASML.

Rackspace Public Cloud President D K Sinha, said activities within this partnership would raise the level of AI knowledge, facilitate the ecosystem, driving projects, and offering relevant services to boost the adoption of AI while connecting companies, professionals, entrepreneurs, and students.

 

Companies see AI and machine learning as top priority

Posted on March 1, 2023 by - News

A new survey of 1,420 global IT leaders by Rackspace has found two-thirds of them rank artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) as a high priority for their organisations, an increase of 15 percentage points as compared to 2021.

The study polled IT professionals across industries, including financial services, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, government, and healthcare to understand the dynamics of AI/ML uptake amid growing economic uncertainty.

Underscoring the spread of AI/ML across businesses of all sectors, almost a third of respondents say they only started to launch AI/ML projects within the past year.

Moody gets Rackspace to help with datasets

Posted on February 28, 2023 by - News

Rackspace has partnered with global financial intelligence services company, Moody’s Analytics.

The big idea is to help Moody’s Analytics manage datasets involving 400 million firms to empower the financial firm to improve its existing risk profile offering and bring new competitive services to its clients.

Moody’s Analytics is a globally integrated risk assessment firm that empowers business leaders to make better and faster data-driven decisions through insights and analytical solutions.

Attacks on Rackspace calm down

Posted on December 15, 2022 by - News

It appears that attacks on Rackspace’s email service have calmed down since the FBI started investigating.

Rackspace has confirmed that it has restored email service to two-thirds of its customers since the outage was reported nearly two weeks ago. But the company signalled Wednesday that the outage is still impacting thousands of other customers on its Hosted Exchange.

CrowdStrike has confirmed no further attacker activity within Rackspace’s Hosted Exchange environment.

The FBI’s entry into the investigation was first reported by Barron’s, which  reported that “tens of thousands” of clients were ultimately impacted by the attack.

Rackspace shares fall after ransomware attack

Posted on December 9, 2022 by - News

Wall Street Crash, Wikimedia CommonsRackspace’s shares took a hit after the company suffered a ransomware attack hit and then failed to tell customers.

The outfit has been slammed on social media for its lack of transparency since customers started noticing a massive outage late last week.

It finally announced that it was suffering a “ransomware incident” affecting its hosted Exchange environment in its blog.

Rackspace heads into Middle East

Posted on September 29, 2022 by - News

Rackspace is launching into the Middle East (UAE) Region with a new branch in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Its new AWS Middle East (UAE) Region consists of three Availability Zones (AZs) and becomes AWS’s second region in the Middle East with the existing AWS Region in Bahrain, launched in 2019.

Rackspace Technology is a Consulting Partner for AWS and has more than 1,800 AWS cloud certifications globally. It has a strong AWS presence in the Middle East with a roster of customers, including BFC Group, the leading money transfer and currency exchange provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain, having supported the migration of its core application and supporting systems to AWS public cloud, while providing ongoing management and consultancy services.

Rackspace faces the music

Posted on March 17, 2022 by - News

Rackspace is helping BMG, the fourth biggest global music company in the world, with its migration to Google Cloud.

With music consumption reaching new highs via streaming platforms and record amounts of data being processed, BMG was looking for a cloud solution that solved its scaling challenges and could power its data-heavy business.

With increasing data volumes, BMG anticipates cost optimisation will become a big initiative. Cloud tooling and provisioning from Rackspace Technology will enable BMG to keep its business economical while providing its services to artists and songwriters.

BT couples with Rackspace

Posted on January 20, 2022 by - News

BT has teamed up with Rackspace to sort out BT’s multinational customers’ cloud services.

Under the terms of the agreement, BT hybrid cloud services will be based on Rackspace Technology’s cutting-edge solutions, which the company will deploy in BT data centres along with its Rackspace Fabric management layer.

BT said that its customers will benefit from the integration of Rackspace Technology’s cloud management expertise and automation, analytics, and AI tools with BT’s world-leading network and security capabilities.

Rackspace snaps up Just Analytics

Posted on January 19, 2022 by - News

It’s M&A time again, folks! Rackspace Technology has agreed to acquire Just Analytics, a leading provider of cloud-based data, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services.

It’s said this brings strong regional ties into the Microsoft Azure ecosystem with Just Analytics recently being awarded four regional Microsoft partner of the year awards.

Just Analytics was founded in 2011 and has more than 100 employees in Singapore with an additional employee presence in Vietnam and India.

Just Analytics helps clients design and create scalable data pipelines using its proprietary data platform, Guzzle, coupled with new-age cloud-based data and analytics services that transform data into insights, giving customers a unified view of their information assets.

Rackspace teams up with Digivante

Posted on January 13, 2022 by - News

Cloudy Rackspace is coupling with Digivante to provide its European customers with AI-based digital performance analysis and continuous website and application testing services.

Rackspace Technology customers across EMEA get Digivante’s expertise and technical capabilities, it’s said, mainly because many businesses rely heavily on digital reliability and app development.

Sky’s the limit for cloud use

Posted on November 17, 2021 by - News

The pace of cloud use is increasing, according to Rackspace Technology’s global survey.

The survey, with the catchy title,  Future of Compute, highlights the increasingly rapid pace of cloud adoption. According to the survey, the question is no longer whether organizations should migrate to the cloud, but how they can leverage the cloud for innovation, efficiency, and growth.

More than half of survey respondents said that all their applicable infrastructure now resides in the cloud, while the rest said they plan to move more of their workloads into the cloud as possible.

Rackspace decimates staff

Posted on July 27, 2021 by - News

Rackspace Technology said that will lay off ten percent of its staff and shift most of the work to offshore service centres.

More than 85 percent of these roles will go overseas

The announcement said that Rackspace “committed to an internal restructuring plan, which will drive a change in the types of and location of certain positions and is expected to result in the termination of approximately 10 per cent of the Company’s workforce”.

Affected employees have already been told and are expected to be leaving the company buildings with their personal possessions in old photocopy boxes over the next 12 months.