Building a cloud operations team isn’t a new concept. But what if you need to build an operations team from the ground up for your applications that are running on Google Cloud Platform? Over the course of eight years at Rackspace, I’ve had the opportunity to build operations teams that have supported thousands of customers. When given the opportunity to build out a new operations team focused on managed services for Google Cloud Platform, I knew we needed to approach things a little differently.

Rackspace is now more than seven months into our partnership with Google as its first managed services partner for Google Cloud Platform. Since we began servicing customers in July, more than 100 Rackspace employees currently hold Google technical and sales certifications. We’re now working with customers in both North America and Europe and our managed service offering on GCP continues to thrive.

Following Google’s recent Managed Services Partner Program Launch,Rackspace® announced that it is migrating, managing and optimizing business-critical workloads for several customers, from enterprises to educational institutions to emerging start-ups, on Google Cloud Platform.

With Rackspace Managed Security and Compliance Assistance for GCP, Rackspace is now a leading managed security services provider that offers services on all of the major public cloud platforms. In IDC’s 2017 CloudView Survey of over 6,000 enterprise respondents, nearly 50 percent indicated concerns about security in the cloud, and about 40 percent cited superior security capabilities available from service providers as a major incentive to move to the cloud.ą With RMS, Rackspace security experts help customers with strategic planning for best practice multi-cloud security, tactical day-to-day security monitoring and threat analysis to deter, detect and respond to potential threats around the clock.

Before moving workloads to Google Cloud, every company needs to consider its own unique set of business, IT and institutional circumstances

We live in a multi-cloud world. Nearly nine in 10 enterprises have adopted a multi-cloud strategy, according to the latest RightScale State of the Cloud Report, and these enterprises use eight different clouds, on average. Increasingly, their cloud of choice is a public cloud.

Many businesses want to realize the power of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) without having to incur the challenge and expense of managing it themselves. Some businesses lack the technical expertise or capacity to operate cloud infrastructure, tools and applications while others may have the ability but choose to maintain focus on their core business. Many larger businesses are on a multi-phased journey to the cloud, requiring transition and management services that can adapt to an evolving set of needs. Rackspace Managed Services for Google Cloud Platform is the answer for businesses facing these challenges. As Google’s first Premier Managed Services Partner, Rackspace blends technology and automation plus human expertise to deliver ongoing architecture, security and 24x7x365 operations backed by GCP-certified engineers and architects.

Before moving workloads to Google Cloud Platform, you need to consider your own unique set of business and IT needs

Nearly nine in 10 enterprises have adopted a multi-cloud strategy, according to the latest RightScale State of the Cloud Report, and these enterprises use eight different clouds, on average. Increasingly, their cloud of choice is a public cloud.

Controlling cloud costs is a leading challenge for enterprises at each stage of their cloud journey. Fortunately, companies utilizing a public cloud can benefit from the strategic partnership between Google and Rackspace. Google Cloud Platform is a state-of-the-art, cost-friendly public cloud, and Google has selected Rackspace as its first managed services provider for GCP, based on Rackspace’s vast cloud expertise and dedication to a fanatical customer experience. With Managed GCP by Rackspace, companies can maximize their cost savings on Google Cloud while also saving on hiring, training and retaining top talent to operate their cloud operations. In this post we will focus on the ten most significant cost-saving opportunities.

When Facebook released their bot feature, M, the virtual assistant living inside their Messenger platform, it was billed as the next generation of how people connect and interact with the internet. Since then, over 18,000 companies have created their own branded chatbots with the help of Facebook’s platform. Never ones to miss out on a trend, Microsoft, Google and Apple have all been hard at work developing their own integrated chatbot features. Brands of all shapes and sizes, from American Express to 1800-Flowers to Domino’s Pizza, all have their own chatbots, proving the versatility of the concept. As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the 2016 Build conference, “As an industry, we are on the cusp of a new frontier that pairs the power of natural human language with advanced machine intelligence.”

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Thinking about hiring a PPC Manager? This Whitepaper explores some of the most important questions you can ask.

The Cloud, once a radical idea in IT, is now mainstream. Whether it’s email, backup or file sharing, most consumers probably use a cloud service or two. Similarly, most IT professionals are familiar with cloud service providers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft Azure, and many companies have moved at least some of their information technology processes into the cloud. In fact, the cloud has become so popular it’s easy to assume that running IT applications on-premises is not cost competitive with a cloud based service. In this report Evaluator Group will test the validity of that assumption with a TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) model analyzing a hyperconverged appliance solution from HPE and a comparable cloud service from Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In our 26-criteria evaluation of digital intelligence (DI) platform providers, we identified the 10 most significant ones — Adobe, Cxense, Evergage, Google, IBM, Localytics, Mixpanel, Optimizely, SAS, and Webtrekk — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps customer insights (CI) professionals make the right choice.

In our 26-criteria evaluation of digital intelligence (DI) platform providers, we identified the 10 most significant ones — Adobe, Cxense, Evergage, Google, IBM, Localytics, Mixpanel, Optimizely, SAS, and Webtrekk — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps customer insights (CI) professionals make the right choice

In our 36-criteria evaluation of omnichannel demand-side platform (DSP) providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones — Adform, Adobe, AOL, AppNexus, DataXu, Google, MediaMath, Rocket Fuel, The Trade Desk, Turn, and Viant — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps marketing professionals make the right choice.

Recently the S&P 500 experienced something new: its top four most valuable companies at closing were Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon—all tech companies. It’s a tech world out there, and one increasingly driven by a mastery of mobile. This reality is changing not only consumer expectations, market conditions, and competitive dynamics, but it’s also changing—and challenging— traditional approaches to corporate strategy.

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The use of SSL encryption for all enterprise Internet traffic is growing steadily. Applications that make use of SSL – such as SharePoint, Exchange, WebEx, Salesforce.com and Google Apps – are commonplace. Even email applications like Gmail, Yahoo, and Zimbra are being used in workplace environments as hosted email or BYOD apps. It’s clear that organizations now need complete visibility into the SSL traffic coming across the WAN. They need the ability to preserve complete network and web histories from encrypted network and web traffic for compliance, regulatory and logging requirements. Blue Coat has solutions today to address the SSL dilemma.

This white paper illustrates Google Shopping’s role in the changing eCommerce landscape; from price comparison engines to CPC.

Most brands would love to have their apps among the top 25 most downloaded apps on the Apple App Store or Google Play. With more than one million apps available, there’s a great risk that your app won’t stand out from the crowd. Marketers need to make sure their core target audiences will first download and then regularly use their apps, without spending huge promotion budgets. This report will analyze how consumers discover apps and will provide some guidelines on how to promote your apps.