Rackspace Journal

Rackspace Hosting on Wednesday announced that it has upgraded its Cloud Tools Marketplace to enhance the customer experience for accessing the ecosystem of cutting-edge applications, tools and solutions.

John Engates, chief technology officer at Rackspace, noted that "the Cloud Tools Marketplace provides an ideal customer experience by making it easier for them to identify the most appropriate technologies to use with their open cloud deployment."

Through the Cloud Tools Marketplace, developers and enterprise IT professionals building on the open Rackspace Cloud, as well as first generation Cloud Servers, can evaluate more than one hundred industry leading technologies to deliver advanced capabilities for their environments hosted at Rackspace.

Through its experience in working with over 180,000 customers, Rackspace has developed the Cloud Tools Marketplace to support an open ecosystem. The marketplace enables a more seamless customer experience, bringing them together with a broad range of solution providers that improve their cloud deployments. With enhanced search functionality, customers can now more easily browse through various categories of technologies, find specific solutions to address their business needs and connect with these applications. The marketplace also provides more resources for customers to make an informed decision, including demo videos, screenshots and user reviews.

With the launch of the open Rackspace Cloud, it has become even simpler for application developers to join the Cloud Tools program and leverage the portability of OpenStack(R) technology.

Via its growing ecosystem, Rackspace is able to extend innovative capabilities provided by third parties to customers in a host of areas, such as:

• Cloud Management Platforms: enStratus, RightScale, ScaleXtreme
• Monitoring and Reporting: Cloudability, New Relic
• Application Deployment: Standing Cloud
• Security: CloudPassage, Dome9, StillSecure
• Databases: Xeround, MongoLab
• SMTP Email: SendGrid

Applications developers interested in joining the Cloud Tools program can receive various benefits, including the opportunity to be featured in the marketplace.

To learn more about the Cloud Tools Marketplace and how to join the Cloud Tools program, visit: https://cloudtools.rackspace.com/cms/landing.