Rackspace teams up with VMware to ease data centre to cloud migrations

Rackspace is expanding its private cloud capabilities by revealing one powered by VMware. The Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware will be built on VMware Cloud Foundation, adding to the managed cloud company’s cloud portfolio. Rackspace says that the new solution will help customers to “enhance the foundational technology that is enabling their move out of the data centre and into the cloud.”The latest cloud offering from Rackspace is said to enable full software defined data centre capabilities, such as compute, storage, and networking across public and private clouds.