Case Study: Brooks Macdonald achieves seamless acquisition growth and enhanced security with Rackspace Technology's Managed Private Cloud

Brooks Macdonald migrates to private cloud for seamless acquisition growth

Brooks Macdonald is an award-winning investment management firm serving advisers, high‑net‑worth individuals and institutions. Rapid growth had left its IT estate fragmented across multiple data centres with more than 300 technology partners, creating complexity, cost and gaps in security and data protection that demanded a coherent, scalable technology strategy.

Working with Rackspace Technology, Brooks Macdonald consolidated its backend into a managed private cloud, rebuilt servers, retired legacy services and reduced supplier count to under 150, while moving Office 365 management and 24x7 managed security onto a single‑pane platform. The result was seamless scalability (supporting a 10% staff rise through acquisitions), stronger threat detection and compliance, improved cyber‑insurance terms, and a secure foundation for future multicloud expansion.

Brooks MacDonald

Caroline Abbondanza

Group CTO