Rackspace Planning a ‘Networked Cloud of Clouds’

Rackspace said Monday that it’s going to build and run a global cloud network for service providers like telcos.
It blogged that “This cloud network will run the Rackspace public cloud – the largest OpenStack-based public cloud in the world – at global scale, creating a networked cloud of clouds through which service providers are linked together behind the scenes.”
It figures that as the founder of OpenStack, it’s “perfectly positioned to help speed a partner’s successful entry as a cloud provider in the OpenStack ecosystem with proven Rackspace technology, operations and go to market expertise.”

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