Rackspace Lab Services Officially Launched, Set to Simulate Complex Environments and Drive Business Growth

Rackspace Technology®, a leading hybrid, multi-cloud, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology services company, has announced the unveiling of Rackspace Lab Services, a cutting-edge cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to transform training, testing, and demonstration environments for organisations worldwide. Rackspace Lab Services hosts the Broadcom VMware Lab Platform (VLP) on Rackspace SDDC (Software Defined Data Centre) Flex to deliver an on-demand, consumption-based service to simulate complex real-world environments.

Launching at VMware Explore 2024 in Las Vegas, Rackspace Lab Services offers a flexible, cost-effective solution that allows you to demonstrate and train on any application that can be installed on an operating system and permits system-level access to the environment. The Service Offering provides a complete turn-key solution that requires no installation and minimal setup. Rackspace Lab Services aims to enhance skills, drive innovation, and facilitate business growth by providing users with customised hands-on training and testing.

“By eliminating the complexities of setting up and maintaining dedicated lab environments, Rackspace Lab Services accelerates project timelines by facilitating quicker innovation and faster time-to-market for new products and solutions,” said Bryan Litchford, Vice President of Private Cloud at Rackspace Technology. “This streamlined approach provides a competitive advantage for companies using Rackspace Lab Services, and in a world where remote work and distributed teams are the norm, RLS offers a robust solution for global distance learning and experiential training. Teams can develop and hone their skills in a real-world context, irrespective of their location, ensuring continuous learning and innovation.”

Rackspace Lab Services Key Features

This new offering extends training into a real-world, hands-on environment with robust features that include:

• Flexible distance learning. Users can access high-impact training anytime, anywhere worldwide.
• Experiential learning. Rackspace Lab Services supports complex lab environments, enabling you to duplicate production environments and provide robust, full-featured training environments.
• Speed and scale. Quickly scale up and down as needed, paying only for the resources you need. If you prefer to host content in your own data center, you can use RLS to manage the labs so you can provide world-class training experiences.
• Learning tools interoperability (LTI) integration. Rackspace Lab Services provides API-based integration with industry-leading learning management systems (LMS), making it the go-to choice for extending training into a real-world, hands-on environment.

Key Benefits

Advantages of Rackspace Lab Services range from easily accessible environments to enhanced revenue opportunities:

• Fully maintained virtual lab services environment. Save the effort required to build and maintain a dedicated lab solution.
• Dedicated virtual environment. Eliminate the struggle of finding viable places to train, test, and demonstrate concepts.
• POC and demonstration environments. Accelerate development projects so you can go-to-market faster.
• Configured environments. Choose configurations from simple to complex according to your exact training, testing, or demonstration specifications.
• Rapidly remedy problems. Access 24 x 7 x 365 expert platform support.
• Grow revenue. Provide on-demand sales demos and PoC environments to give your clients a hands-on solution experience to build their trust.

“The launch of Rackspace Lab Services symbolises a pivotal moment in empowering organisations while facilitating global workforce training and development with real-world scenarios to close deals faster,” continued Litchford. “It is now available as an on-demand, pay-for-use solution globally, setting a new standard for workforce empowerment, sales facilitation, and application testing.”

As a VMware Cloud Service Provider Pinnacle Partner, Rackspace Technology is hosting virtual labs at VMware Explore 2024 in Las Vegas until 29 August 2024, in the Hands-on Labs room at the Venetian Expo & Convention Center, Level 2, Hall B. In addition, attendees can visit Rackspace at Booth 1524.

Click here to learn more about Rackspace Lab Services.