The HPE Rackspace elastic, single-tenant breakthrough came by leveraging HPE's flexible capacity pay-as-you-go software prowess with the Rackspace's technology integration muscle as the creator of OpenStack. "You bring those two together, and it is an unbeatable combination," said Crenshaw. "We built on the strength and foundation that made Rackspace the leader in private cloud as-a-service and HPE the leader in enterprise infrastructure."