Rackspace

Rackspace announced the appointment of Kevin M. Jones as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Jones most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of MV Transportation, Inc. As CEO of Rackspace, Mr. Jones will be responsible for the company’s global strategy and operations, spanning the U.S. and the four other continents where Rackspace maintains offices and data centers. Mr. Jones succeeds Joe Eazor. - read more

Named Anthos, the new offering is designed to make embracing hybrid cloud computing easier by enabling organizations to run containerized applications without modification both on premises and in the public cloud. - read more

Hosted email service is a catch 22. You need to offer email service because your customers expect it, but it’s hard to manage and even harder to make money at. Of course, you have the option to stop offering email, but that’s a sure way to drive customers to your competitors. - read more

The new Ultra-Fast Performance Rackspace Block Storage solution is designed to help businesses migrate mission-critical disaster recovery, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and machine learning workloads to the cloud without sacrificing performance or availability. - read more