NEWS
Rackspace
launches new
solutions and
renames company
ollowing a series of acquisitions
F and strategic partnerships,
Rackspace has announced
plans to provide comprehensive
solutions across the entire technology
transformation life cycle. These four
solution areas, focused on cloud
optimisation, security, cloud-native
enablement and data modernisation,
bring to market the company’s significant
multicloud expertise under the new name,
Rackspace Technology.
These efforts are a culmination of the
company’s massive transformation over
the past year, led by CEO, Kevin Jones.
“Our technical acumen with the world’s
leading cloud technologies – across
apps, data and security – empowers our
customers to build new revenue streams,
increase efficiency and create incredible
experiences,” said Kevin Jones, CEO,
Rackspace Technology. “Our new name,
mission and multicloud solutions better
represent the full value we bring to market.
Our mission is simple: embrace technology;
empower customers; deliver the future.”
Rackspace Technology’s new multicloud
solutions empower customers to address
this challenge and meet new demands.
The new solutions provide customers
with the following benefits:
• Cloud Optimisation empowers
customers to improve costs and
performance for a changing market
while delivering the experience their
end-customers demand.
• Cloud Security provides customers
with expert security and compliance
services for the enterprise and
the cloud.
• Cloud-native Enablement
accelerates multicloud transformation
with cloud-native application, data and
security built in a DevOps culture.
• Data Modernisation helps customers
make predictive, data-driven
decisions that accelerate innovation
and increase ROI leveraging modern
data analytics.
Tata Communications to enhance
its network capability with new
submarine cable in Asia Pacific
ata Communications,
T
a digital ecosystem
enabler, has announced
that the Asia Direct Cable (ADC)
Consortium, of which it is a member,
is building a high-performance
submarine cable connecting China
(Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong
Province), Japan, the Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
The consortium has selected
NEC Corporation to construct the
9,400-km long ADC cable, which is
expected to be completed by the
fourth quarter of 2022.
The cable will feature multiple pairs
of high-capacity optical fibres and
is designed to carry more than
140 Tbps of traffic, enabling highcapacity
transmission of data across
the east and south-east Asian
regions. ADC’s high capacity allows
it to support increasingly bandwidthintensive
applications driven by
technological advancements in 5G,
cloud platforms, Internet of Things
and Artificial Intelligence. This will
further enhance the expansion of
communications networks in the region.
Tata Communications is one of the early
initiators of the ADC Consortium since
2018. This new capability will provide an
additional route to Tata Communications’
existing global network.
Carl Osborne, Associate Vice
President, International Cable Network
Development, Tata Communications,
said: “At Tata Communications, we’ve
been delivering flexible borderless
connectivity together with intelligent
application aware networks to our
global customers.
“Our collaboration within ADC
consortium to build this highperformance
submarine cable will
provide enterprises with additional
connectivity between major traffic
hubs in Asia. This will further augment
our existing capabilities on the Tata
Communications Global Network with
deeper reach, enabling us to offer
superior customer experience and
enhanced resilience.” ◊
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