Rackspace Government Solutions Solutions for the Public Sector

Securing the cloud is not as simple as buying cloud services from a vendor. While cloud vendors secure the perimeter of the cloud infrastructure – about 15% of the security (physical layer) - it is the remaining 85% of security “in the cloud”- including critical data, applications and workloads - that is the biggest challenge for most organizations.

With Rackspace Government Cloud (RGC), we offer customers management and security as-a-service built on AWS or VMware infrastructure. RGC on AWS and VMware deliver automated and managed security and compliance built to FedRAMP and DoD standards and ready to handle secure “in the cloud” workloads. Our RGC solutions help customers manage the ongoing and ever-changing security and governance requirements to protect data and assets against cybersecurity threats and risks.

Rackspace Government Cloud (RGC) built on AWS and VMware are the only commercially available offerings for fully managed FedRAMP AWS and VMware. Additionally, we have a team of unparalleled cloud and security experts, offering customers the ability to quickly launch and benefit from a turnkey solution that offers accelerated deployment and automates compliance in a secure, FedRAMP-authorized platform-as-a-service.

We’ve made it easier for cloud solution providers to meet stringent Federal Government security requirements quickly and with less cost. Rackspace Government Cloud accelerates time to value so you can focus on supporting the mission of government.

When you choose Rackspace Government Cloud, you get automation, security and multicloud adoption expertise across the Rackspace Government Cloud — a secure FedRAMP-authorized Platform-as-a-Service on your choice of public (AWS), private (VMware) or hybrid cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service.

Rackspace Government Cloud embedded security controls and continuous automated security monitoring help ensure that your SaaS solution remains compliant with changing FedRAMP ATO requirements. We help you prepare for your first FedRAMP ATO process and we stay with you to make sure your SaaS solution remains ready for each audit.

• Achieve ATO/FedRAMP readiness in as little as weeks to months
• Realize a potential of 70 percent in monthly operational savings
• Grow your business faster post-ATO with the Rackspace network and eco-system
• Add value to your solutions with on-demand cloud and security expertise
• Evaluate additional compliance revenue paths including CMMC and StateRAMP

To learn more please visit our Rackspace Government Cloud Page

Rackspace Elastic Engineering helps customers ensure the successful planning and execution of a broad range of cloud initiatives across the cloud lifecycle. We provide on-demand cloud expertise – including highly skilled engineers, solutions architects and project managers - to help accelerate, secure and optimize your cloud investments.

• Cloud Migrations. Help you design, build, secure, operate and optimize the transition of your most critical workloads (databases, applications, and IT processes) to the cloud (public, private, multi) or from one cloud to another.
• Infrastructure Builds. Deploy new or additional infrastructure or applications into Customer's environment; and manage infrastructure for cost, performance, and scaling optimization.
• DevOps and Automation. Management, maintenance, and enhancements to automation systems for operational effectiveness, stability or security; and changes to, or a net new build out of, automation systems.
• Performance Management. Identification of performance targets and continuous adjustment of infrastructure to deliver desired performance at an optimal cost level; and application-level tuning, and detailed analysis of application-level performance problems.
• Database Management. Database scaling, performance management, and maintenance, from an operations perspective; and build-out of new or additional database clusters, etc.
• Application Operations. Manage configuration patching of common, off-the-shelf applications; and custom upgrades and patches of off-the-shelf applications, build out configuration frameworks and methodologies for custom applications.
• Security Management. Maintain security of the environment to Third Party Cloud best practices; Respond to security incidents identified by Customer’s security team; deploy Customer-provided third-party security tools; and provide evidence during Customer’s audits.
• Disaster Recovery Planning. Build out new disaster recovery solutions, extend existing solutions, or customer-directed tests of disaster recovery systems.
• Planned Maintenance. Perform all preventative maintenance required for the stable and secure operation of the infrastructure, databases, and applications; and perform optional maintenance and customer-directed changes, including regular security patching.
• Cost Optimization. Implementation of architectural changes to support cost management decisions.

VMware Cloud™ on AWS brings VMware’s enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software to the AWS Cloud, enabling you to run applications across private, public and hybrid cloud environments. But how do you ensure a seamless experience building, migrating, operating and optimizing what this next-generation cloud environment has to offer, while maximizing your existing VMware and AWS investments?

Rackspace Managed VMware Cloud on AWS accelerates and optimizes your transformation to a multi-cloud experience. Leveraging VMware SDDC technologies, Rackspace helps you achieve your hybrid cloud goals by moving your VMware workloads out of the data center and into your best-fit location — whether that’s a private cloud hosted at a Rackspace data center or in the AWS cloud.

Fast track your IoT initiatives by leveraging Rackspace Technology IoT and AWS expertise and accelerators.

Whether you’re looking to introduce IoT-enabled products into your portfolio, employ more intelligent decision making, or improve the efficiency of engineering and manufacturing processes, leveraging Amazon Web Services’ connectivity, storage application, and analytics capabilities, Rackspace Technology IoT professional services can help you quickly build IoT solutions customized to your use case.

Let the IoT experts at Rackspace Technology evaluate your IoT use cases and provide recommendations for an IoT pilot solution along with backlog, roadmap and cost estimate for hardware, firmware
and cloud architecture.

Rackspace Powers State, Local, and Education Innovation with Secure, Compliant, Multicloud Solutions and Services.
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