Note: Accompanying video is available for viewing at http://bit.ly/1k54RwW Solving business challenges - that was the focus at Rackspace::Solve in San Francisco, the first 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 kicked 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.

4. JOHN ENGAT ES
Welcome
Keynote
CTO | RACKSPACE

5. JOHN ENGAT ES
Welcome
Keynote
CTO | RACKSPACE

6. FIRST SOLVE EVENT: SAN FRANCISCO
JULY 28
OCTOBER 20
SEPTEMBER 18

7. CUSTOMERS
challenged us to
SOLVE

9. MAGIC QUADRANT
FIRST CLOUD-
ENABLED MANAGED
HOSTING MAGIC
QUADRANT AND
WE’RE A LEADER
G A R T N E R

10. MAGIC QUADRANT
FIRST CLOUD-
ENABLED MANAGED
HOSTING MAGIC
QUADRANT AND
WE’RE A LEADER
G A R T N E R

11. MANAGED
CLOUD
IS EVERYTHING
WE DO

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

13. BARE METAL SERVERS
API-drivenInstantly Available Highly Specialized No Hypervisor
OnMetal

16. DATA STORES

18. 2
WAYS TO
SOLVE

19. BEN GOLUB
BILL CLERICO
RYAN BONIFACINO
LEW CIRNE
SEAN FANNAN
RICHARD ROBINSON
ROBERT SCOBLE
DON ALLEN
DAN MARSH
ALEX POLVI
TODAY’SLINEUP

20. Managed Cloud Experts and Top Partners

21. Managed Cloud Experts and Top Partners

22. Innovation
and a
New Way
of Doing
Things

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

24. HERE’S
WHAT
WE’LL
COVER
HOTTEST
AREAS
IN TECH
Containers
Digital DevOps
Big Data

25. BIG DATA
10%
90%
90%of the world’s
data has been
created in the
last two years
SINTEF. "Big Data, for better or worse: 90% of world's data generated over last two years." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 22 May 2013.

26. BIG DATA

27. BIG DATA

28. CONTAINERS

29. CONTAINERS

30. ”
“high-performing
IT organizations
deploy code
30 times more
frequently with
50 percent
fewer failures

31. DIGITAL

32. COLLABORATION
is the Key

37. Today it’s
your turn