CNBC: Rackspace Launches Product Certification for Private Cloud Partners Provides Partners with Validation to Help Them Thrive in the Open Cloud Ecosystem

SAN ANTONIO, Oct 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, Rackspace(R) Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the open cloud company, announced product certifications for Rackspace Private Cloud partners.

"We have seen great demand from companies to certify their products, hardware or software, against Rackspace Private Cloud," said Scott Sanchez, director of strategy, Rackspace Private Cloud. "We want to continue to foster adoption of open clouds and make it easier for our customers and partners to deploy Rackspace Private Cloud in their data centers." Rackspace makes deploying and managing private clouds easy. In less than an hour, a Rackspace Private Cloud, dubbed "Alamo," can be downloaded and deployed in a customer's data center and supported by the open cloud experts at Rackspace. Thousands of companies, organizations and individuals from around the world have downloaded the Rackspace Private Cloud software and are using it today. Rackspace is now extending the capabilities of this offer by providing programs to help its technology partners validate their offerings against Rackspace Private Cloud, and thereby making those solutions more attractive to customers using Rackspace Private Cloud solutions.

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