In this episode, Fede Pacheco and Adam Burke delve into the winning motion that Rackspace achieved in the past year with Azure Arc. Guests Zachary Symm and Jeff DeVerter from Rackspace share the financial and operational benefits of deploying Azure Arc for transitioning their customers’ SQL Licensing from SPLA and enabling their customers to access Extended Security Updates. Fede and Adam also provide an overview of the Azure Arc solution and how it helps partners get cloud economics in a Rackspace data center.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Insights from Rackspace vision of the hybrid cloud in today’s world
• How has Rackspace reduced their TCO and improved their customer satisfaction
• The value of adding hybrid cloud solutions to your existing practice and cost savings benefits from doing so.

Some questions we ask:

• What motivated Rackspace’s adoption of this solution?
• What type of savings has Rackspace seen by transitioning to Arc-enabled SQL from SPLA licensing?
• How did the Datacenter Optimization team support Rackspace along the journey?

Resources:

• Connect with the Datacenter Optimization team
• Join the Hybrid Cloud Partners LinkedIn Community
• Blog on Arc-Enabled SQL
• Blog on End of Support

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