Architecture & Design
Whether by design or by default, many enterprises now rely on multiple cloud platforms and a wide variety of cloud native services. Although this diversity creates opportunities for enhancing innovation and efficiency, it can be challenging to optimize performance, cost, security and ROI across this ecosystem. Rackspace architects take an agnostic architecture perspective to designing your frameworks and environments — so you can be sure you are getting the most out the complex, evolving hybrid cloud market. Rackspace also offers application architecture designs to provide our customers with a detailed plan of their application implementation and data migration. Our deep cloud and application experience makes Rackspace the ideal architecture partner, designing frameworks and environments that help prioritize ongoing optimization, continuous improvement and ease of management.
| What we do | What it means for our customers |
|---|---|
| Identify the specific business drivers behind the customer’s architectural decisions | An enterprise architecture approach aligned to the customer’s business strategy. |
| Support their initiatives with technical architecture and engineering services | Consistent, high-quality design and build services that accelerate their outcome delivery. |
| Accurate cost modeling for their target operating architecture | Informed business cases that de-risk adoption and reduce risk and uncertainty. |
| Establish architectural principles that work for their business | Clear guidance and decision-making confidence with the ability to manage diversity effectively. |
| Deliver vendor-aligned architecture reviews and classify workloads. | Stay on top of emerging best practices and optimal performance. |
| Scope of application implementation and data migration | A detailed path forward that outlines their entire application implementation. |
Capabilities
Architecture Assessment & Vision
Review existing architecture in the context of desired business objectives to produce a vision for the adoption of cloud.
Application Architecture Design
Delivering customized architecture designs to meet the customers reliability, scalability and requirements across your systems to provide you with application and data migration proposals.
Cloud Architecture Design
The Rackspace team will explain and establish architecture principles with the organization’s team, perform a gap analysis, complete a workload classification exercise then design the target cloud architecture and roadmap based on current and future business needs for cloud services.
Cloud Architecture Roadmap
Expert architects will review the organization’s current Business IT estate to evaluate the current vision, architecture and overall technical objectives to create a detailed 6-12-24 month roadmap.
Cloud Comparison & Decision
Rackspace will review existing or target estates to compare implementations of public/private/hybrid solutions versus major cloud service providers and develop a functional cost comparison to help the customer make the optimum choice for their applications and business goals.
Best Practice Review
Seasoned experts will review the customer’s use of public cloud services against the relevant providers best practices and industry norms and develop actionable recommendations to guide and assist the customer in remediation efforts.
Updated 18 days ago