Rackspace Wins VMware 2020 Global Partner of the Year Award
April 14, 2020
Partners Awarded for Extraordinary Performance and Notable Achievements
SAN ANTONIO – Rackspace today announced that it has received the Global Partner of the Year Award for the Partner Social Impact category. Rackspace was recognized by VMware for positively impacting the world through the use of VMware technologies.
“I am honored to recognize this year’s VMware Global Partner of the Year Award winners, which includes an exceptional group of innovative partners,” said Bill Swales, vice president and channel chief, Americas Partner Organization, VMware. “VMware is proud to see Rackspace honored in the Partner Social Impact category, and we are thrilled to see their continued commitment to delivering exceptional customer outcomes.”
“For over a decade, we’ve been working with VMware to help customers realize the full promise of virtualization and private cloud,” said Matt Stoyka, Chief Solutions Officer at Rackspace. “We’re thrilled to once again be recognized as a VMware Global Partner of the Year. We look forward to our continued partnership to help our customers decrease costs, remain competitive, and grow and scale their businesses.”
The VMware Partner of the Year Awards include the following: Partner Value, Partner Social Impact, Services Excellence, Digital Transformation, Cloud Platform Transformation, Partner Trailblazer, in addition to the Global Partner for Technology Innovation Award. The program was conducted in partnership with IDC, who helped review and evaluate award submissions against the criteria for each category. Partners were recognized for delivering growth for their customers’ businesses and driving ROI, innovating and demonstrating expertise in a particular technology area, or making a positive impact on the world through VMware technologies.
Contact:
Mikala Ferguson
Rackspace
mikala.ferguson@rackspace.com
210-550-6452
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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These statements include, but are not limited to, Rackspace Technology’s relationship with NVIDIA and the NVIDIA Cloud Partner Program, its Enterprise AI Cloud strategy,
the anticipated capabilities, benefits and timing of its Institutional Sovereign Pod architecture, Rackspace’s outlook on the AI industry and its ability to deliver, operate, and
scale AI infrastructure and solutions for regulated, institutional and sovereign enterprises. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions
and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, without limitation: Rackspace's ability to realize the anticipated
benefits of its relationship with NVIDIA and the NCP program; the availability, cost, and timing of deployment of NVIDIA and other third-party technology; Rackspace's ability
to develop, market, and scale the Institutional Sovereign Pod and related offerings on the anticipated timeline or at all; market acceptance of and demand for sovereign and
governed AI infrastructure solutions; competition in the AI infrastructure and cloud services markets; capital expenditure requirements associated with AI infrastructure
buildout; availability of financing for the AI infrastructure buildout on terms acceptable to Rackspace; Rackspace’s reliance on a limited number of technology partners,
including NVIDIA; cybersecurity, data privacy, and regulatory compliance risks associated with serving regulated and sovereign customers; general economic and industry
conditions; and other risks and uncertainties described in Rackspace's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form
10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Rackspace undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events, or otherwise, except as required by law.
