Rackspace joins NVIDIA Cloud Partner Program with Blackwell pods for regulated enterprises
DavidLinthicum · x · 2026-09-22
Rackspace Technology has joined the NVIDIA Cloud Partner Program and announced Blackwell-powered AI infrastructure aimed at regulated enterprises and governments.
- The strategic read: enterprise AI has moved from experimentation to production infrastructure, shifting the buying question from "who sells the GPU" to "who is accountable for operating the complete system"
- CEO Gajen Kandiah argues that full-system operations and accountability is a far more durable position than reselling compute
- Its Institutional Sovereign Pod architecture targets compliance and sovereignty needs
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