We are thrilled that Google Cloud has named Rackspace its 2018 Global Migration Partner of the Year during last night\u2019s awards ceremony at Next \u201819, Google Cloud\u2019s annual flagship conference, held in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Rackspace SVP & GM of Cloud and Infrastructure Services Prashanth Chandrasekar called the recognition \u201cjust the latest validation of Rackspace’s disruptive, integrated and flexible approach to delivering next-generation cloud services that span the full spectrum of the cloud journey \u2014 from navigation to operations to optimisation.<\/p>\n
Just last month, Gartner placed Rackspace in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner\u2019s Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Services<\/a> \u2014 for the third year in a row.”<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to recognise Rackspace as the 2018 Global Migration Partner of the Year,\u201d said Carolee Gearhart, Vice President, Worldwide Channel Sales at Google Cloud. \u201cRackspace has proven its expertise in Google Cloud and has demonstrated its commitment to customer success over the past year. We\u2019re excited to keep building on our partnership with Rackspace as more and more customers look to our ecosystem to help them succeed in the cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n Google Cloud cited our work for mutual customer Eagle Eye, a UK-based digital marketing platform, which enables retailers and brands to use promotions, loyalty and rewards to establish relevant and meaningful connections with customers.<\/p>\n Eagle Eye was experiencing tremendous growth, yet it was struggling under limiting factors with its existing infrastructure. Rackspace recommended Eagle Eye move to Google Cloud Platform, to take advantage of its scalability, agility and competitive pricing.<\/p>\n Before a full-scale deployment into Google Cloud, however, Rackspace provided a proof of concept environment, allowing Eagle Eye to trial its application. It was a success \u2014 the company saw a 3x increase on throughput compared to its existing dedicated environment.<\/p>\n Rackspace completed Eagle Eye\u2019s full migration to Google Cloud, and today, the company can process up to up to 3,000 API requests per second<\/em>, scaling to manage a 556 percent increase in the number of coupons redeemed during the past financial year \u2014 403 million across the globe, according to Eagle Eye founder and CTO Steve Rothwell.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd Rackspace has been fundamentally key to that growth,\u201d he said. Without partners like Rackspace and Google, he continued, \u201cwe\u2019d have probably spent years trying to work out how to build that infrastructure, to create that effect.\u201d<\/p>\n As one of Google Cloud\u2019s first Premier Managed Services Partner, we help customers migrate applications running on legacy environments to Google Cloud to realise the many benefits of the platform. We employ hundreds of GCP-certified engineers who have a combined 2.5 million hours of support and operation. We offer expert guidance on how to architect, plan and operate Google Cloud environments at scale.<\/p>\n Learn more about our work with Eagle Eye by watching the video below, or read the full case study<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re attending Next \u201919 and would like more information about how Rackspace can help accelerate the value of Google Cloud Platform for your organisation, we invite you stop by booth S1319 and speak to our experts.<\/p>\n Also, check out the presentation by Rackspace Reliability Engineer Thomas Bottrill, \u201cHow to run highly available Microsoft SQL Server in Google Cloud<\/a>\u201d (session #DBS204) on Thurs., April 11. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Learn how Rackspace can accelerate the value of cloud today.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are thrilled that Google Cloud has named Rackspace its 2018 Global Migration Partner of the Year during last night\u2019s awards ceremony at Next \u201819, Google Cloud\u2019s annual flagship conference, held in San Francisco. 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