Solving business challenges - that was the focus at Rackspace::Solve in New York City, the second of three one-day summits that showcase how companies are overcoming the toughest challenges in their businesses and for their customers. In this presentation, Rackspace CTO John Engates kicks off the day with an overview of some of those challenges, and the various ways some of our customers and partners help solve them by using Rackspace's Managed Cloud offerings. Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.

1. JOHN ENGATES
Welcome
Keynote
#rackspacesolve
CTO| RACKSPACE | @jengates

2. Taylor Rhodes
CEO, Rackspace

3. 2ND STOP: NEW YORK
JULY 28
OCTOBER 20
SEPTEMBER 18

4. KEY THEMES
JULY 28
OCTOBER 20
SEPTEMBER 18
Speed
Scale
Flexibility

5. CUSTOMERS
challenged us to
SOLVE

6. YOU CAN’T
SOLVE
ANYTHING WITH RAW
INFRASTRUCTURE ALONE

8. MANAGED
CLOUD
IS EVERYTHING
WE DO

9. Dedicated Public Cloud Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Cloud Office
Managed
Virtualization Storage
Databases Big Data DevOps
Web Content
Management Ecommerce ObjectRocket
Managed Cloud is EVERYTHING WE DO

10. GARTNER
MAGIC QUADRANT
FIRST CLOUD-ENABLED
MANAGED
HOSTING MAGIC
QUADRANT AND
WE’RE A LEADER

11. GARTNER
MAGIC QUADRANT
FIRST CLOUD-ENABLED
MANAGED
HOSTING MAGIC
QUADRANT AND
WE’RE A LEADER

12. OnMetal
BARE METAL SERVERS
Instantly Available API-driven Highly Specialized No Hypervisor

14. DATA STORES

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16. 2 WAYS TO
SOLVE

17. TODAY’S LINEUP
TONY BAILEY
KEN COCHRANE
JAMES STATEN
JON HYMAN
BRIAN MCMANUS
MICHELLE BAILEY
DANE ATKINSON
MARC WEIL
MELISSA GRAY

18. Managed Cloud Experts and Top Partners

19. Managed Cloud Experts and Top Partners

20. INNOVATION
and a New
Way of
Doing Things

21. Our Customers Often Tell Us
Innovate
faster
Get to the market
more quickly
Take advantage of
new technologies

22. HERE’S
WHAT
WE’LL
COVER
HOTTEST
AREAS
IN TECH

23. BIG DATA

24. DevOps

25. CONTAINERS

26. D I G I TAL

27. UNDER ARMOUR

28. DATA CENTERS

29. MICHELLE BAILEY

30. 3 FLAVORS

31. JAMES STATEN

32. SECURE MOBILE

33. COLLABORATION
is the Key

37. Today it’s
your turn