Case Study: Rackspace achieves unified data management and faster insights with Google Cloud Platform

Rackspace Using Google Cloud to centralize, democratize petabytes of data

Rackspace, a global managed cloud services provider and Google Cloud partner, faced major data democratization and unification challenges caused by fragmented, on-premises information management. To modernize its analytics and improve governance, Rackspace turned to Google Cloud Platform, using BigQuery as the foundation for a more centralized data strategy.

Google Cloud Platform helped Rackspace consolidate 74 operational data sources, four data warehouses, one data lake, and 12 years of history into Google Cloud in just six months. The results included a reduction in time to insight from months to weeks, a drop from more than 320 dashboards to 20, more than $1.2 million saved in licensing fees, and a 10x improvement in Net Promoter Scores.

Rackspace

Juan Riojas

Chief Data Officer