{"id":10201,"date":"2014-02-12T00:45:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/feb\/12\/rackspace-ceo-retires-claims-time-good-any-step-down\/"},"modified":"2014-02-12T00:45:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:45:24","slug":"rackspace-ceo-retires-claims-time-as-good-as-any-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/rackspace-ceo-retires-claims-time-as-good-as-any-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace CEO retires, claims time \u201cas good as any\u201d to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier is to retire after eight years heading up the open cloud provider, with co-founder Graham Weston stepping back into the breach on an interim basis.<\/p>\n<p>Weston, who was chief exec from 1999 to 2006, said in a blog post that &ldquo;what we build from here, we will build on the shoulders of a giant.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a conference call with analysts, Napier noted that &ldquo;now is as good a time as any&rdquo; for him to step aside, citing confidence with development of OpenStack and progress of hybrid cloud as the key reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While there&rsquo;s still work to do, I&rsquo;m pleased with the progress we&rsquo;ve made, the increased capability of our hybrid cloud offering in the way that it qualifies just to compete for much larger opportunities,&rdquo; Napier said in prepared remarks as reported by Seeking Alpha.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The transition has been challenging and has taken &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier is to retire after eight years heading up the open cloud provider, with co-founder Graham Weston stepping back into the breach on an interim basis.<br \/>\nWeston, who was chief exec from 1999 to 2006, said in a blog post that &amp;ldqu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}