{"id":8629,"date":"2013-08-20T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/aug\/21\/rackspace-gets-back-bed-vmware-hybrid-offering\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T23:23:09","slug":"rackspace-gets-back-into-bed-with-vmware-for-hybrid-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/rackspace-gets-back-into-bed-with-vmware-for-hybrid-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace gets back into bed with VMware for hybrid offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace Hosting has announced a new offering for its Managed Virtualisation Service hosting a VMware environment, entitled &lsquo;Dedicated VMware vCenter Server&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting change, given how Rackspace&rsquo;s most recent focus has been on OpenStack technologies instead of VMware.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Managed Virtualisation service offers partial accessibility to vCenter&rsquo;s features, but not full management capabilities. The theory, according to Rackspace, is that the dedicated environment will be an extension of the customer&rsquo;s data centre.<\/p>\n<p>What does this all mean? Essentially, it&rsquo;s pushing more into Rackspace&rsquo;s hybrid cloud policy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This new service has been designed to enable customers to migrate workloads out of their data centre and into a Rackspace data centre,&rdquo; said John Engates, Rackspace CTO in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Utilising Rackspace&rsquo;s hybrid cloud portfolio gives customers the choice to find the best fit for their applications and workloads, all while offloading data centre &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace Hosting has announced a new offering for its Managed Virtualisation Service hosting a VMware environment, entitled &lsquo;Dedicated VMware vCenter Server&rsquo;.<br \/>\nThis is an interesting change, given how Rackspace&rsquo;s most recent focus has&#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-8629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629","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=8629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}