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SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Today, Rackspace Hosting (RAX), the open cloud company, announced product certifications for Rackspace Private Cloud partners.

We have seen great demand from companies to certify their products, hardware or software, against Rackspace Private Cloud, said Scott Sanchez, director of strategy, Rackspace Private Cloud. We want to continue to foster adoption of open clouds and make it easier for our customers and partners to deploy Rackspace Private Cloud in their data centers.

Rackspace makes deploying and managing private clouds easy. In less than an hour, a Rackspace Private Cloud, dubbed Alamo, canbe downloaded and deployed in a customers data center and supported by the open cloud experts at Rackspace. Thousands of companies, organizations and individuals from around the world have downloaded the Rackspace Private Cloud software and are using it today. Rackspace is now extending the capabilities of this offer by providing programs to help its technology partners validate their offerings against Rackspace Private Cloud, and thereby making those solutions more attractive to customers using Rackspace Private Cloud solutions.

Product Certifications for Rackspace Private Cloud

Building hardware, applications and other platforms that power or run on private clouds based on OpenStack requires deep expertise and knowledge. Rackspace is helping to solve this problem by offering a product certification program for Rackspace Private Cloud. As a consistent, supportable and tested platform, Rackspace Private Cloud is quickly becoming the gold standard to test products for compatibility with open private clouds. There are two types of Rackspace product certifications available:

Running a large-scale, enterprise private cloud is not an easy task, Paul Rad, vice president, private cloud, Rackspace. Our goal is to help enterprise IT to deploy private clouds that have the efficiency and robustness of Rackspaces public cloud, which runs thousands of virtual machines. The product certification program opens the door for IT executives to choose a certified stack that has been validated and supported by Rackspace and its certification partners.

For more information on the product certifications for Rackspace Private Cloud visit: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/private/partners/

Partner Quotes:

AMD is excited to be at the forefront of building a robustRackspace Private Cloud partnerecosystem. Certifying the industrys highest density, most energy efficient server platform will allow customers to realize the benefits of the open cloud while drastically reducing energy consumption and operating expenses. This is a huge step forward for the industry and we look forward to being one of the leading partners in the program for standards-based, interoperable data center computing. Andrew Feldman, general manager, Data Center Server Solutions, AMD

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