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Rackspace Technology named Cloudflare Worldwide MSP Partner of the Year

February 23, 2021

Rackspace Technology named Cloudflare Worldwide MSP Partner of the Year

Rackspace Technology named Cloudflare Worldwide MSP Partner of the Year

SAN ANTONIO – February 23, 2021 – Rackspace Technology™ (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end multicloud technology solutions company, has been recognized as Cloudflare’s Worldwide MSP Partner of the Year in honour of its growth and strong, consistent joint customer engagements. This follows the organizations’ worldwide reseller and managed services partnership to protect business applications and infrastructure with the benefit of fully managed services.

“As Cloudflare’s Worldwide Managed Services Provider Partner of the Year for 2020, we extend congratulations to Rackspace Technology its Americas, APAC, and EMEA teams,” said Matthew Harrell, Global Head of Channels & Alliances for Cloudflare.

“The unprecedented challenges in 2020 have reinforced how critical it is to have a secure, performant, and reliable Internet. Throughout these turbulent times, our partners have been busy innovating and helping organisations of all sizes transform their businesses. By protecting and accelerating websites, applications, and teams with Cloudflare, our partners like Rackspace Technology have helped these organisations adjust quickly, seize new opportunities, and thrive. Cloudflare’s mission to help build a better Internet is more important than ever, and we look forward to championing this with our partners in 2021.”

Cloudflare announced its 2020 Partner Champions in an inaugural ceremony. Regional awards were presented across five categories, celebrating the successes of Cloudflare’s committed partners which have consistently provided outstanding services and value to joint customers through solutions, support, expertise, and on-going product training.

Rackspace Technology was honoured as the top-performing managed services provider (MSP) partner across Cloudflare’s three sales geographies: Americas, APAC, and EMEA.

About Rackspace Technology

Rackspace Technology is a leading end-to-end multicloud technology services company. We can design, build and operate our customers’ cloud environments across all major technology platforms, irrespective of technology stack or deployment model. We partner with our customers at every stage of their cloud journey, enabling them to modernize applications, build new products and adopt innovative technologies.

About Rackspace Technology

Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT) is the operator of the full enterprise AI stack from governed private cloud to AI inference and agents in production. With an Outcomes-as-a-Service model built on secure infrastructure, data foundations, and forward-deployed engineering, Rackspace delivers business results for regulated and mission-critical industries where governance, sovereignty, and uptime are non-negotiable. Learn more at www.rackspace.com.

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 These statements include, but are not limited to, Rackspace Technology’s relationship with NVIDIA and the NVIDIA Cloud Partner Program, its Enterprise AI Cloud strategy, the anticipated capabilities, benefits and timing of its Institutional Sovereign Pod architecture, Rackspace’s outlook on the AI industry and its ability to deliver, operate, and scale AI infrastructure and solutions for regulated, institutional and sovereign enterprises. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, without limitation: Rackspace's ability to realize the anticipated benefits of its relationship with NVIDIA and the NCP program; the availability, cost, and timing of deployment of NVIDIA and other third-party technology; Rackspace's ability to develop, market, and scale the Institutional Sovereign Pod and related offerings on the anticipated timeline or at all; market acceptance of and demand for sovereign and governed AI infrastructure solutions; competition in the AI infrastructure and cloud services markets; capital expenditure requirements associated with AI infrastructure buildout; availability of financing for the AI infrastructure buildout on terms acceptable to Rackspace; Rackspace’s reliance on a limited number of technology partners, including NVIDIA; cybersecurity, data privacy, and regulatory compliance risks associated with serving regulated and sovereign customers; general economic and industry conditions; and other risks and uncertainties described in Rackspace's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Rackspace undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law.