Rackspace will open a new data center in Germany.
Rackspace’s decision to expand its operations by making investment in a new data center in the region is expected to assist customers who are facing strict personal data protection laws across Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) territory.
The data center facility in Frankfurt is designed to serve customers who seek managed private clouds and hosting environments, with a focus on fully managed VMware environments.
Rackspace will be working with one of its partners to build out the data center infrastructure of the new operation. The new data center in Germany will be fully operational in mid-2017. Rackspace did not share investment related information for the new data center in Germany.
Recently, Rackspace announced the appointment of Alex Fuerst as the leader of operations in the DACH region. Alex has hired an in-region team focused on delivering managed private clouds and hosting environments, as well as managed cloud services.
Rackspace aims to tap customers, who are seeking help with the complexity and cost of managing AWS and Azure.
Rackspace engineers have more than 500 AWS certifications and experience with architecting, deploying, operating and optimizing both AWS and Azure customer environments.
“We’re experiencing strong demand from DACH-centric customers, as well as U.S. and EMEA-based multinationals who are looking for managed private clouds and hosting environments, along with managed cloud services and expertise for AWS and Azure in continental Europe,” said Alex Fuerst.
Rackspace aims to achieve its goal of becoming the leading managed cloud provider in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, which is already its third largest international market.
Rackspace has 12 data centers worldwide, including in Germany, London, Hong Kong, Sydney, Dallas, Chicago and Ashburn (near Washington, D.C.).
