Despite increased investment and C-suite attention, most organisations are less than fully prepared to address major threats.

DataCentre220 is one of several industry leaders contributing to Data Center in a Box, an offering Rackspace Technology has designed specifically for VMware.

Organisations are becoming more comfortable with sophisticated 'cloud 2.0' technologies, even as they confront difficulties in hiring and retaining IT talent.

Rackspace Technology has entered into a strategic partnership with Cohesity to deliver multi-cloud managed backup and recovery solutions.

The intention of the partnership is to help businesses reach cloud-centric goals and provide a SASE for cloud applications, data, users and devices.

The acquisition also brings strong regional ties into the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, with Just Analytics recently being awarded four regional Microsoft Partner of the Year awards.

Rackspace Technology has announced the results of a global survey conducted with Google Cloud highlighting the rapid pace of cloud adoption. 

Half of global IT leaders say they are not fully confident in their ability to respond to data, malware phishing, supply chain, ransomware, cloud, IoT and application attacks, according to Rackspace's global survey.

Rackspace Elastic Engineering for Security encompasses security expertise in the areas of cloud migration, securing apps and data in the cloud, as well as ongoing management and support services.

Rackspace Technology has announced the executive appointment of Angeline Maronese as managing director of Australia and New Zealand, effective immediately. 

Rackspace Technology has released Rackspace DataOps, stating that the offering expands on Rackspace Elastic Engineering and activates data for the modern enterprise.

“Greater adoption of digital skills and processes will help businesses and their staff to keep working safely through potential future disruptions or civil defence emergencies.”

“Rackspace Elastic Engineering combines our unmatched operational expertise with flexible, modern, cloud native engineering services.”

Cloudflare has announced the winners of its inaugural 2020 Partner Awards.

"This study shines a light on the struggle to balance the potential benefits of AI and ML against the ongoing challenges of getting AI/ML initiatives off the ground."

Would enterprises in Asia Pacific rather build applications themselves, or buy them straight off the shelf?

Rackspace Technology is expanding its Singapore operations, as part of the company’s continued investment in the APAC region and focus on enhancing digitisation plans for businesses around the world.

Businesses worldwide have increased their IT spend this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to new concerns around IT budgets and cost control.

Under the Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS, Rackspace Technology is set on helping customers realise greater value from AWS cloud services.

Rackspace and Cloudflare join forces for managed edge security The solution includes a web application firewall, DDoS protection, DNS services and a global content delivery network, backed by 24/7 support.

The company says the move was in response to the growing trend towards digital transformation and aims to bring the company’s multicloud experience to the wider market. 

The company expands into Aotearoa New Zealand as it looks to grow its customer base across Asia Pacific.

Rackspace has extended its professional and managed services for Amazon Web Services (AWS), with the expansion of its Rackspace Service Blocks portfolio.

Armor’s cloud security platform, Armor Anywhere, will be integrated into Rackspace’s portfolio of security services for all major private and hyperscale public clouds.