on-premises private cloud
Your data center. Our operations.
Bring Rackspace's operating model to the facilities you already have. We design, deploy and manage the platform 24x7x365 while you maintain control over where your workloads and data physically reside.
Your most important data already has a home.
On-premises
Managed cloud, in the facility you choose
Run in your facility, backed by our operations
Deploy in your data center or colocation space, with Rackspace managing the private cloud platform 24x7x365.
VMware Cloud Foundation where you need it
Use the same software-defined platform across Rackspace-hosted and on-premises private cloud for consistency across environments.
Central management, local data
Provision virtual machines, networks and storage within the quotas, roles and policies your organization defines.
Built for regulated environments
Manage sites centrally while data and processing remain on premises where required.
Resiliency everywhere your workloads run
Keep local workloads running during connectivity loss, with synchronization when connectivity returns.
Consistency as you grow and scale
Bring new sites online through zero-touch provisioning and maintain consistent configurations from a common source of truth.
Control
Governance that never leaves the building.
Why on-premesis?
Made for data that stays put
Modernize your data center
Keep the investment you’ve already made. Rackspace brings an aging estate onto a current platform in place, then runs it day to day.
Run many sites as one
Several data centers or regional facilities operated as one environment, with consistent controls, monitoring and support everywhere.
Extend to the edge
Hospitals, branches, stores and plants running local workloads on VMware Cloud Foundation, managed centrally across dozens or thousands of sites.
Regulated core systems
Platforms that regulators, contracts or data gravity tie to a specific facility, operated to the controls they require.
Secure and restricted sites
Government, defense and regulated facilities where data has to stay on site, run to the access and clearance requirements you set.
Latency-sensitive applications
Workloads that need processing within milliseconds of the people and equipment they serve.
VMware Cloud Foundation, run by one of its most experienced operators
Rackspace has run VMware for enterprises for more than 17 years and is among a limited set of Broadcom Advantage Partners delivering managed services on VMware Cloud Foundation. Licensing is included, the platform stays current and 400+ VMware certifications support the team operating it. For organizations rethinking their VMware strategy, Rackspace provides continuity on a platform their teams already know.
Years
Customers
Global
Private cloud models
We helped pioneer managed private cloud, and we’ve run it every day for 25 years
Dedicated
Physically isolated infrastructure for workloads that require it.
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Multi-Tenant
Shared VMware Cloud Foundation with isolated environments and capacity on demand.
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Bare Metal
Dedicated physical servers without a virtualization layer for performance-intensive workloads.
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Sovereign
Private cloud designed for strict data residency, control and sovereignty requirements.
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Hybrid Cloud
Private and public cloud connected under one consistent operating model.
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Enterprise AI Cloud
Full-stack enterprise AI infrastructure and operations, from applications and agents to infrastructure.
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Operating model
Build. Operate. Innovate.
Build
Designed for your locations
We assess facility, network, capacity and compliance requirements, then deploy and test the platform with ongoing operations in mind.
Operate
Managed as one environment
We manage lifecycle, security, reliability and performance 24x7x365 across one location or thousands, with one accountable operating team.
Innovate
Kept current
We manage VMware Cloud Foundation upgrades and introduce new capabilities as requirements evolve, with consistent change management across locations.
Rackspace and Seattle Children's worked together closely to ensure that an appropriate configuration was built that factored in elements such as cost, the actual design performance of the environment, as well as ensuring that the redundancy really met our needs
- Nigel Hartell
Chief Architect, Seattle Children's
customer success
99.999% uptime for Epic on Rackspace private cloud
Industrias
Pericia de confianza para industrias donde hay más en juego
Healthcare
Epic and clinical platforms kept available, patient data protected, and a governed foundation ready to move AI from pilot to the point of care.
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Financial services
Core banking and payments modernized with proven recovery, data control and the audit evidence regulators expect, so AI can follow safely.
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Public sector
Sovereign, accredited cloud for citizen services, run by cleared teams, with the control to modernize today and adopt AI when you’re ready.
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Enterprise AI Cloud
Your facilities, ready for Enterprise AI
On-Premises Private Cloud brings enterprise AI to the data that has to stay in your data center or at the edge, from plants and hospitals to branch sites. Rackspace builds, operates and continuously improves it as part of Enterprise AI Cloud, so your facilities get the same governed operations as ours, with one accountable team from infrastructure to production.
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Bring managed private cloud on site.
Tell us where your workloads need to stay. A Rackspace private cloud expert will show you how fully managed private cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation can run in your data center, across multiple sites or at the edge, with the same operations we run in our own.
FAQ
Common questions about on-premesis private cloud
What is on-premises private cloud?
On-premises private cloud is cloud infrastructure that runs in an organization’s own data center or facilities instead of a provider’s, giving it cloud-style self-service, automation and scalability while data and workloads stay on site. Organizations use it when regulation, latency, data gravity or existing investment ties workloads to a specific location. Rackspace On-Premises Private Cloud runs on VMware Cloud Foundation in your data center, across multiple sites or at the edge, with Rackspace operating the environment 24x7x365.
What is Rackspace on-premises private cloud?
Rackspace on-premises private cloud is a fully managed VMware Cloud Foundation environment deployed in your data center, colocation space or distributed edge locations and operated by Rackspace 24x7x365.
Can Rackspace manage private cloud at edge locations?
Yes. Rackspace extends VMware Cloud Foundation to distributed locations with centralized management, zero-touch provisioning and consistent configuration across the environment. Local workloads can continue running during connectivity loss and synchronize when connectivity returns.
Can we use our existing VMware environment?
Yes. Rackspace can modernize an existing on-premises VMware environment to VMware Cloud Foundation, manage lifecycle and upgrades and take on day-to-day operations while your teams continue working with familiar VMware technology.
Can we run AI on premises with Rackspace?
Yes. Rackspace can extend an on-premises VMware Cloud Foundation environment to support private AI, including model runtime, API access, data indexing and retrieval and agent development. GPU capacity, networking and storage can be added based on workload requirements while sensitive data remains on premises.
How does on-premises private cloud connect to the rest of our environment?
On-premises private cloud can connect to Rackspace-hosted private cloud and AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud through private connectivity, with environments managed under one operating model.
Yes. VMware workloads can move from hyperscaler-hosted services to Rackspace multi-tenant private cloud while retaining familiar VMware tooling. Rackspace can support both the migration and ongoing platform operations.
Choose dedicated private cloud when workloads require physical isolation for compliance, security or performance requirements. It provides single-tenant infrastructure on VMware Cloud Foundation, while multi-tenant private cloud provides logical isolation on shared infrastructure.