Maletira’s Task: ‘Create Faster’

New Rackspace CEO Amar Maletira has a lot of work ahead of him. He needs to accomplish what Jones could not. Constellation Research’s Mueller says that looks like this: “Find a way to create faster. Have Rackspace get the role of the trusted provider of multicloud services back.”

Maletira looks suited to the task because, as CFO, he showed “good control” on costs and forecasts, Mueller said.

“We will see how he fares.”

Fortunately, the executive turnover at Rackspace should have little to no impact on the indirect channel.

“Nothing has changed. Rackspace is Rackspace,” Mueller said. “We need to check when Amar has made his impact on the channel — likely in a few months.”