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.

"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.