{"id":10670,"date":"2020-05-15T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rax-stg-wp-aws.com\/news\/rackspace-awarded-multicloud-services-contract-by-texas-department-of-information-resources\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T12:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T12:30:03","slug":"rackspace-awarded-multicloud-services-contract-by-texas-department-of-information-resources","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/news\/rackspace-awarded-multicloud-services-contract-by-texas-department-of-information-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace Awarded Multicloud Services Contract by Texas Department of Information Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SAN ANTONIO \u2013 <\/strong>Rackspace today announced it has been awarded a contract by the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to provide multicloud solutions to support the state\u2019s overall IT modernization effort.<\/p>\n<p>Rackspace will provide DIR with operational, technical and security solutions across DIR\u2019s Data Center Services hybrid public clouds. Rackspace will also leverage its strong relationships with DIR cloud service providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to expand DIR\u2019s cloud strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDIR\u2019s modernization efforts will help them deliver outstanding services to the Texas government and its residents,\u201d said Kevin Jones, CEO, Rackspace. \u201cWe are proud to be awarded this contract and to leverage our multicloud expertise to help them achieve that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The award of this contract is a critical step forward. DIR continues to seek innovative solutions for the shared technology services that further empower the Texas government to provide the people of Texas with the responsive, efficient and cost-effective services they deserve,&#8221; said Amanda Crawford, E&#88;ECutive Director, DIR.<\/p>\n<p>DIR\u2019s relationship with Rackspace paves the way for potential transformation efforts for DIR\u2019s portfolio of Texas agencies, all of which leverage technology solutions used by DIR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Rackspace today announced it has been awarded a contract by the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to provide multicloud solutions to support the state\u2019s overall IT modernization effort. Rackspace will provide DIR with operational, technical and security solutions across DIR\u2019s Data Center Services hybrid public clouds. Rackspace will also leverage its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","headline":"Rackspace Awarded Multicloud Services Contract by Texas Department of Information Resources","seo_title":"Rackspace Awarded Contract by Texas Department of Information Services","seo_description":"Rackspace today announced it has been awarded a contract by the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to provide multicloud solutions to support the state\u2019s overall IT modernization effort. ","card_image":"","insights_image":"","featured_image":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/newsroom_images\/21544-featured_image-texasCapitol.jpg","author_name":"mika3260","content_type":"news","video_embeds":"","og_image":"","twitter_image":"","drupal_nid":"21544","drupal_path":"\/newsroom\/rackspace-awarded-multicloud-services-contract-texas-department-information-resources","drupal_changed":"2021-11-10T17:30:55","footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10670","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10671,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10670\/revisions\/10671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}