"In the past, we would need a month to spec and purchase servers and install, configure and deploy new servers or applications. With the cloud, we can deploy new applications within a little more than a week, at most, sometimes in a matter of hours.”
"Under Rackspace’s guidance, we are putting a GDPR-focused data management strategy in place. The company’s IT systems are controlled and we are implementing the processes to manage data appropriately and securely."
"Rackspace’s global footprint, especially in Europe and the US where most of our traffic originates, puts us closer to our customers. As a result, latency is slashed, and page-loading times are extremely fast."
“As an organization, we’re heavily focused on compliance-based industries such as healthcare and financial services. These enterprises are going to see a high value connecting and building workflows and services in a secure and compliant manner, Most of our customers really want to disrupt and change their businesses to better serve their customers.”
“We looked into hiring our own AWS-certified experts, or going with a smaller local provider, but these were both more costly and didn’t come with the extensive tooling that Rackspace has invested in on top of the AWS platform. Collaborating with Rackspace provided us with the security and management capabilities of a business many times ourselves, enabling us to demonstrate our security credentials to the most demanding of customers in the public sector.”
“With Rackspace, we’re getting proactive management, somebody who knows the situation and will tell us what to do to keep things running well, instead of us always reacting to trouble or downtime.”
“The truth is that we're really happy with Rackspace Technology. Partnering was a very good decision because, honestly, I don't know if we would have achieved as much cost savings otherwise.”
"The most important thing is making sure that your stuff does not go down, and there are no shortcuts with that. Rackspace is not the cheapest service out there. You don’t want the cheapest service – you get what you pay for. I pay for Rackspace every month and the amount of downtime I have is minimal, if any. And that is worth every penny."
“I would recommend Rackspace and I would recommend the idea of outsourcing new IT infrastructure. You want to be in the Cloud. You really want to concentrate on your own business.”
"It's been invaluable to be able to leverage a much larger pool of technical experts that are available within Rackspace."
"We no longer have to worry about racking the servers or taking care of the production network. We can depend on that Rackspace partnership, that Rackspace team that’s truly an extension of our group."
"Our applications are critical financial services that needs to be 24x7 available, with Rackspace we feel protected."
“The key has been having a business partner who wants to be with you and not just sell you a product.”
“Rackspace Technology has been an extremely important business partner for us, allowing us to manage our infrastructure in a more scalable way and in a more appropriate way to be able to focus on what we have to do well.”
“We were on Slicehost for a while, literally serving this stuff off the disk. But our traffic got to a point where we couldn’t even back up the servers on Slicehost, because it was too big. If you get above 50GB or so, it becomes a network storage issue.”