Groundbreaking Industry-Wide Initiative to Bring Together World's Leading Cloud Hardware, Software and Services Providers to Create Pre-Validated End-To-End Private Cloud Solutions

BOSTON, Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Technology Partners™ Inc. (cloudTP™), the leader in transforming businesses with cloud solutions, today announced it has joined the Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition™ ecosystem, a groundbreaking industry-wide initiative intended to bring together the world's leading cloud hardware, software and services providers in order to create end-to-end private cloud solutions, based on the OpenStack™ open-source cloud platform and supported by the Rackspace's Cloud Builders™ team.

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"This announcement underscores the maturity and market acceptance of the OpenStack platform," said Jim Lampert, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP).  "However, what makes this announcement truly important for customers is that the Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition ecosystem will accelerate the deployment of private clouds based on OpenStack, and Rackspace is backing it up with their unparalleled infrastructure and service offerings."

"We are delighted that cloudTP has joined the Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition ecosystem as they deliver technology and service components that are critical for the success of any cloud computing endeavor," said Jim Curry, General Manager of Rackspace Cloud Builders.

Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition combines proven, OpenStack-powered reference architectures with industry-best cloud operations and software support from Rackspace. With Certified Deployment Partners such as Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP), Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition can be deployed and run in any datacenter, including customer premise, Rackspace and partner datacenters globally.  For further information, please visit: www.rackspace.com/cloud/private_edition.

About Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP)

Based in Boston, MA, Cloud Technology Partners™ (cloudTP™) is the leader in transforming businesses with cloud solutions.  From strategy to architecture, application and infrastructure transformational services, cloudTP provides enterprises with solutions to plan and execute migration of business processes, applications and customer data to private, public or hybrid clouds.  By doing this, companies are able to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, accelerate business growth, enhance agility, drive innovation and increase competitive advantage.  For further information, please visit: www.cloudtp.com, email: info@cloudtp.com, or call: (617) 674-0874.

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