Having operational bases in almost every corner of the world and partnerships with leading names like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Dell Technologies, Oracle and many others, Rackspace Technology is now one of the largest managed cloud providers with exceptional expertise in handling public and private cloud deployments. Whether it be cloud migration, data services, elastic engineering or any other cloud-related concerns, Rackspace offers various solutions to cloud enthusiasts.
In a recently held virtual meetup, senior officials from the various departments of Rackspace Technology educated the attendants about the company’s offerings, operations, and future. Present in the meeting were Bernard L’Allier; Rackspace Managing Director (Southeast Asia and India), Srini Koushik; Rackspace Global CTO, Hemanta Banerjee; Senior Director (Data Service Sales), and others. The general challenges that the corporate sector faces, in the contemporary market scenario, regarding cloud migration, security, data management, business-critical applications, and various other issues were also weighed up.
For successful business operations on the cloud, Srini Koushik emphasised various elements that the corporate sector must consider. First, business entities must calculate and determine the overall outcomes that they seek from cloud transformation. What is the purpose of cloud adoption, what data management measures must be ensured, what will be the estimated storage requirement, and will business operations be on-site or remote?
All such aspects must be scrutinised before any significant moves. Secondly, identifying and understanding the Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), specifications that assess a system’s operational constraints and capabilities, of applications will help to enable the business-critical applications on the cloud using a particular architectural style, ensuring scalability, availability, and privacy. Furthermore, cloud-native design techniques and continuous automation across the entire workload will considerably modernise applications and optimise organisational operations.
About business analytics, Hemanta Banerjee from Just Analytics – a cloud-based data, analytics, and AI solution provider that was recently acquired by Rackspace Technology – highlighted some immensely noteworthy ideas. “When it comes to analytics, every time you do something, you realise that you do not know much more than you thought you did.”
In other words, organisations that succeed know that they don’t know, and organisations that fail are those that consider themselves all-knowing. Moreover, usually many organisations opt for the applications first to build the data later rather than going for the data in the first place. Emphasising the requirements of digital transformation, Hemanta noted that this ‘applications first and data later’ approach takes an organisation away from its internal insights which will, in turn, impede the process of transformation.
About Rackspace Technology’s presence in Malaysia and the surrounding countries, Bernard said that Rackspace has been able to hold a propound grip and presence in the Southeast Asia region. “We have deep interests here. We have been helping Malaysia’s digital economy to prosper, and we will continue to do so in every possible way.”
