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Rackspace Technology Expands Strategic Partnership with Cloudflare to Offer Zero Trust Cloud Security Services to Customers Globally

February 16, 2022

Rackspace Technology Expands Strategic Partnership with Cloudflare to Offer Zero Trust Cloud Security Services to Customers Globally

Rackspace Technology Expands Strategic Partnership with Cloudflare to Offer Zero Trust Cloud Security Services to Customers Globally

SAN ANTONIO – February 16, 2022 – Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end, multicloud technology solutions company, today announced an expanded strategic partnership with Cloudflare to offer expert services for Cloudflare Zero Trust, to help businesses reach their cloud-centric goals faster, support remote workers, and provide a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) for their cloud applications, data, users, and devices. Rackspace Technology is offering managed services for Cloudflare Zero Trust through the Rackspace Elastic Engineering for Security portfolio which is available to customers globally.

“We want to forge partnerships that really bring best-in-class cloud solutions to our customers. Our cloud-first delivery model supports businesses globally as they transform their networks, modernize applications, and now to help adopt zero trust security architectures,” said Gary Alterson, Vice President of Security Services for Rackspace Technology. “We are partnering to evolve our service models with Elastic Engineering support for Cloudflare Zero Trust to meet the demands of our customers for expert guidance on zero trust cloud architectures.”

The Rackspace Technology Elastic Engineering for Security service provides consultative services to help businesses of all sizes around the globe gain access to Rackspace Technology security experts who are available on-demand to help businesses customize, optimize, and manage their comprehensive Cloudflare platform. By adding Cloudflare Zero Trust into the Rackspace Security Service portfolio, Rackspace Technology can provide customers with a modernized SASE architecture that can scale rapidly and is in direct alignment with customers’ strategic cloud initiatives.

Broad adoption of zero trust architectures is being implemented across the world, as a critical component to secure cloud posture in today’s business and threat landscape. In fact, a recent Rackspace Technology Survey of Global IT Leaders revealed 49% of organizations believe that adoption of zero trust security practices can help tackle their most prevalent cybersecurity challenges with network, platform, and web application attacks. Source: https://www.rackspace.com/solve/cybersecurity-report.

“Our threat and business landscapes are constantly evolving and this is screaming for a modern Zero Trust approach, where organizations can’t automatically trust a request to their resources and instead need to efficiently verify every single request before granting access,” said Matt Harrell, Cloudflare’s Global Head of Channels & Alliances. “We have been delivering Cloudflare Zero Trust to SMBs, the Fortune 100, to the top federal governments that rely on us to help keep them secure, and we’ve now expanded our MSP arm to enable our key partners to fully license, provision, and manage, to further the delivery of Zero Trust.”

Rackspace Technology is a strategic Cloudflare alliance partner, providing expert services and always-on support (24x7x365) for Cloudflare’s platform which is powered by its global network, one of the largest and most interconnected in the world. Rackspace Technology global security experts have deep knowledge and experience in cloud security and hold over 800 security industry certifications, including cloud security certificates from AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, alongside more than 100 accredited Cloudflare certifications.

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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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