{"id":11970,"date":"2026-07-14T20:22:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rax-stg-wp-aws.com\/news\/rackspace-technology-recognized-leader-2026-isg-private-hybrid-cloud-data-center-services-report\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T18:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:40:56","slug":"rackspace-technology-recognized-leader-2026-isg-private-hybrid-cloud-data-center-services-report","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/news\/rackspace-technology-recognized-leader-2026-isg-private-hybrid-cloud-data-center-services-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace Technology Recognized as a Leader in Two Categories of 2026 ISG Provider Lens\u00ae, Private\/Hybrid Cloud \u2014 Data Center Services Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Report validates Rackspace&#8217;s leadership in AI-ready infrastructure, sovereign cloud services, and production-scale enterprise AI operations<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 July 14, 2026<\/strong> \u2014 Rackspace Technology\u00ae (NASDAQ: RXT), a global enterprise AI infrastructure and solutions provider, today announced it has been named a leader in two categories across the United States and the United Kingdom in the <a href=\"https:\/\/go.rackspace.com\/lp\/dl\/2026-isg-data-center-services-report\">2026 ISG Provider Lens\u00ae, Private\/Hybrid Cloud \u2014 Data Center Services Report:<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AI-ready Infrastructure Managed Services \u2014 Midmarket<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Managed Cloud Hosting and Resilient Infrastructure Services<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The recognition reflects Rackspace&#8217;s growing momentum as enterprises seek trusted partners to operationalize AI, modernize infrastructure, and support governance, security, and compliance across private, hybrid, and sovereign cloud environments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The market is moving beyond AI experimentation and into production, where customer success requires more than simply GPUs or infrastructure. It demands governed operations, flexible deployment models, and production-ready AI services that can scale across complex enterprise environments,&#8221; said Bryan Litchford, Head of Product, Engineering, and Data Centers at Rackspace. &#8220;ISG&#8217;s recognition validates the strategy we&#8217;ve been building as we enable organizations to convert AI ambition into measurable business outcomes while maintaining the control, security and resilience required in regulated sectors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In its e&#118;aluation, ISG highlighted Rackspace\u2019s differentiated capabilities in AI-ready Infrastructure Managed Services, citing its managed private AI offerings, AI Reliability Engineering (AIRE) services, VMware Cloud Foundation-based solutions, and partnerships designed to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. The report specifically noted Rackspace&#8217;s ability to support enterprise customers as they move from AI experimentation to measurable business outcomes, particularly for companies operating in regulated industries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRackspace Technology differentiates itself by combining automation-led hybrid cloud operations with production-focused AI infrastructure services, enabling enterprises to modernize complex environments while adopting AI in a controlled and scalable manner.\u201d- Shashank Rajmane, Lead Analyst.<\/p>\n<p>ISG noted several strengths across the e&#118;aluated categories, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI-ready infrastructure managed services optimized for enterprise AI workloads<\/li>\n<li>AI Reliability Engineering services spanning DataOps, MLOps, LLMOps and operational governance<\/li>\n<li>Flexible deployment options across customer, co-location and Rackspace-managed environments<\/li>\n<li>VMware Cloud Foundation-based architectures that support seamless hybrid operations<\/li>\n<li>Resilient infrastructure backed by strong availability, security and recovery capabilities<\/li>\n<li>Specialized support for regulated industries requiring compliance, governance and data residency controls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click here to download the full report:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.rackspace.com\/lp\/dl\/2026-isg-data-center-services-report\" title=\"https:\/\/go.rackspace.com\/lp\/dl\/2026-isg-data-center-services-report\">https:\/\/go.rackspace.com\/lp\/dl\/2026-isg-data-center-services-report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about Rackspace Technology&#8217;s AI-ready infrastructure, sovereign cloud and managed cloud solutions, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/\">www.rackspace.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Rackspace Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rackspace Technology\u00ae (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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/\">www.rackspace.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contact:<\/strong><br \/>\nWill Link<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=D1G8tz8Z_j0azYHx6lajFvAOwMdhqJz_hpZ_2aq0EZuqOF7XeRAEBAZZwtJYxG5JIiP92QM1_wDXEoTbMbJZfmbuu9e9ygudpsWCoDK4hj7hugsqCh3zdQEKotKGWPjt\">rackspace@stantonprm.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report validates Rackspace&#8217;s leadership in AI-ready infrastructure, sovereign cloud services, and production-scale enterprise AI operations SAN ANTONIO \u2014 July 14, 2026 \u2014 Rackspace Technology\u00ae (NASDAQ: RXT), a global enterprise AI infrastructure and solutions provider, today announced it has been named a leader in two categories across the United States and the United Kingdom in the [&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 Technology Recognized as a Leader in Two Categories of 2026 ISG Provider Lens\u00ae, Private\/Hybrid Cloud \u2014 Data Center Services Report","seo_title":"Rackspace Leader 2026 ISG Data Center Services Report","seo_description":"Rackspace named Leader in two categories across the U.S and the UK in the 2026 ISG Provider Lens\u00ae, Private\/Hybrid Cloud \u2014 Data Center Services Report.","card_image":"","insights_image":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/newsroom_images\/28356-field_insights_image-Related-Insights_0.jpg","featured_image":"","author_name":"caro2698","content_type":"news","video_embeds":"","og_image":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/newsroom_images\/28356-field_tags_opengraph-OpenGraph_2.jpg","twitter_image":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/newsroom_images\/28356-field_tags_twitter-XCard_0.jpg","drupal_nid":"28356","drupal_path":"\/newsroom\/rackspace-technology-recognized-leader-2026-isg-private-hybrid-cloud-data-center-services","drupal_changed":"2026-07-14T12:13:34","footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11970","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\/11970","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=11970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/11970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11971,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/11970\/revisions\/11971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}