Simplifying Multicloud: Accelerating Your Mission

Simplify the complexity of multicloud while addressing security and compliance requirements across the design, build, migrate, operate and optimize lifecycle. Rackspace Technology is your trusted partner across cloud, applications, security, data and infrastructure.

Rackspace provides secure, compliant multicloud solutions and managed services that help agencies fully leverage and optimize their cloud investments, ensuring success across every stage of the cloud journey – design, build, secure, operate and optimize.

Rackspace Government Cloud (RGC) solutions deliver automation, security, and multicloud adoption expertise on a secure FedRAMP-authorized platform as a service – available on public (AWS), private (VMware), or hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service. The Rackspace team of certified cloud experts works with our customers at every stage of the cloud journey, freeing internal teams to focus on mission-essential tasks.

We optimize the value of FedRAMP investments by accelerating the ATO process and the rapid delivery of cloud-based solutions in support of agency missions. Rackspace Government Cloud meets 80% of the FedRAMP security and compliance requirements, reducing CapEx as well as the stress and burden of meeting FedRAMP security and compliance requirements. Additionally, we assume the risk of monitoring and maintaining those requirements as they change.

Rackspace Technology is a trusted FedRAMP ATO partner, from initial assessment to audit.  We power solutions that support the mission of more than half of the Federal Government cabinet agencies. Offering unparalleled security, Rackspace Government Solutions has held FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB) certification since 2015, as well as DoD Impact Level 4 and DFARS. Our solutions also comply with FISMA, IRS Publication 1075, TAC 202, and HIPAA standards, to name just a few.

In a time where demands for a digitally-enabled remote workforce and digital citizen services have never been greater; Rackspace Government Solutions helps state and local agencies and in-house IT teams alleviate the burden of managing multi-cloud environments by quickly, securely and cost-effectively right-sizing the technology ecosystem.

The Rackspace Technology portfolio of secure multicloud as a service solutions delivers best-in-class multicloud management and the ability to cost optimize workloads so the IT department, the agency and the customers they serve get the best value. Rackspace enables agencies to do more with less by moving from a CapEx to an OpEx model and delivering consumption flexibility to scale up as needed - to ensure agencies can deliver services anywhere, at anytime. This helps accelerate the path to modernization and digital transformation by taking advantage of the agility that the cloud delivers to better serve citizens – from SMART city programs to public safety services to public health services and far beyond.

Offering unparalleled security, Rackspace Technology Government Solutions has held FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB) certification since 2015, as well as DoD Impact Level 4 and DFARS/CMMC authorization. Its solutions also comply with IRS Publication 1075, TAC 202, and HIPAA standards, to name just a few.

As more states look to align with Federal security standards as part of their “State RAMP” initiatives, Rackspace has extensive experience in working with providers and customers to bring FedRAMP authorized solutions to market and production. It applies this experience directly to helping state and local governments cost-effectively prepare for and accelerate their own security standardization and compliance initiatives.

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Competitively Solicited Contracts Publicly Awarded by Department of Information Resources:

• Cloud Services Contract DIR-CPO-5186
• DBITS DIR-CPO-5004

Rackspace Government Solutions helps Systems Integrators overcome a myriad of IT challenges as they look to not only guide their customers to the best multicloud modernization solutions but also as they strive to modernize and optimize their own cloud environments. Rackspace Technology is the largest AWS managed service provider (MSP), one of the top Azure partners, Google Cloud Platform’s first MSP, and the only company to establish a VMware Cloud in AWS.

Rackspace Technology enables customers to do more with less by moving from a CapEx to an OpEx model and delivering consumption flexibility to quickly scale up as needed - to ensure services can be delivered anywhere, at any-time. With more than 8000 certifications across 45 technologies, we are uniquely positioned to help you manage and maintain multicloud infrastructure and achieve multi-platform independence for your government customers as well as your internal IT. 

For internal IT teams, we help create IT value by detangling the web of disparate and outdated infrastructure and cloud systems and charting a path to a modern, optimized cloud ecosystem with solutions that will save time and money.

For customer-facing teams, our unmatched and unbiased multicloud expertise and our portfolio of secure, compliant multicloud solutions and services help you achieve faster time to market to deliver best-in-class solutions to government customers while optimizing time and resources. Additionally, we can help significantly increase protection of customer data and reduce risk to the SI business with Rackspace Government Cloud and managed security services – a very real threat in today’s cyber environment.

Rackspace Technology helps you accelerate time to value of your IT solutions by meeting Federal compliance standards faster and leveraging our extensive resources to help you scale your business.

We focus on being the government compliance and security experts so that you can focus on being the experts at building great software. With Rackspace Government Cloud (RGC) you inherit 80% of the required FedRAMP security controls, allowing you to achieve ATO/FedRAMP readiness in as little as weeks to months, with a potential of 70 percent in monthly operational savings. So you can start selling to the government and growing your business faster, at a substantial cost savings.

And once you achieve FedRAMP ATO on RGC, we can leverage our extensive network of partners and our own internal ecosystem to help market and sell your solution. So our resources and relationships become your resources and relationships.

Offering unparalleled security, Rackspace Government Solutions has held FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB) certification since 2015, as well as DoD Impact Level 4 and DFARS/CMMC authorization. Its solutions also comply with FISMA, IRS Publication 1075, TAC 202, and HIPAA standards, to name just a few.

The Rackspace Government Solutions portfolio offers unparalleled multicloud, security and compliance expertise; empowering Public Sector organizations and their partners to confidently design, build, manage, and optimize the cloud. Our solutions and services help customers accelerate innovation and agility – and meet mission and business requirements faster.

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Rackspace Government Cloud helps agencies maximize the value of FedRAMP by accelerating the ATO process and the rapid delivery of cloud-based solutions in support of agency missions. It offers automation, security, and multicloud adoption expertise on a secure FedRAMP-authorized platform as a service on public (AWS), private (VMware), or hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service.

With Rackspace Government Cloud, agencies, System Integrators (SI), and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) may inherit up to 80 percent of the controls required for FedRAMP Authority to Operate (ATO), which enables them to obtain an ATO in three to four months instead of 12 to 18 months, and as much as 70 percent less cost.

Rackspace Government Cloud’s embedded security controls and continuous security monitoring help ensure that agency SaaS solutions remain compliant with changing FedRAMP requirements. Rackspace Technology helps our customers prepare for their initial FedRAMP ATO process and provides ongoing support for as long as they are our customer to ensure they remain authorized.

Rackspace Technology enables agencies, SIs and ISVs  secure a FedRAMP ATO faster and accelerates the availability of secure, compliant mission-critical cloud solutions to government customers.

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Agencies and businesses alike need to design for multicloud security and compliance from the outset – hence the need for a strong multicloud strategy and solutions. They also need cloud and security experts who can help evaluate systems, assets and data to determine the appropriate level of protection required. Bringing together the business owners, internal cyber stakeholders, and external multicloud and security experts as integral parts of the decision-making process is key to ensure there is a complete understanding of how the systems need to operate to support the mission with optimal security and governance built-in. Otherwise an organization could be stuck trying to wrap security around a solution after data and assets have shifted to the cloud which can create enormous cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities. 

Rackspace Government Solutions (RGS) delivers secure mulitcloud-as-a-service (MCaaS) solutions that help organizations navigate the complexities and security challenges that burden them as they embrace enterprise-wide multicloud cloud modernization on a larger scale. We enable them to fully leverage and optimize their cloud investments while putting security and compliance at the forefront to ensure success across every stage of the cloud journey -  design, build, migrate, operate and optimize. 

Our secure MCaaS solutions provide the necessary tools to comprehensively address cloud security across multiple technologies and help business owners and cybersecurity services craft the right strategy to support the mission. They free stakeholders to focus squarely on their mission, while entrusting cloud operations and security to the experts 

RGS secure MCaaS solutions can also dramatically shorten the path to cloud, increasing productivity while reducing overall TCO; empowering internal teams with expertise that puts technology to work to help optimize the benefits of cloud. For agencies and business departments at all levels, this means being able to move more quickly to leverage automation, software-based analytics tools, and capabilities utilizing emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-  that improve daily operational efficiency, deliver mission and citizen essential services, and evolve cybersecurity posture from passive to active. 

Rackspace Government Solutions enables customers to leverage highly skilled cloud, security, compliance and governance expertise and automated security and compliance solutions to help accelerate, secure and optimize their cloud investments.