SAN ANTONIO, Texas — February 18, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Rackspace Technology and Palantir Technologies Inc. have formed a strategic partnership to expedite the deployment and operation of Palantir’s Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) for enterprises.
The collaboration aims to enable customers to achieve measurable business outcomes more rapidly. Rackspace’s governed operating model will provide consistent security, operating controls, and compliance from edge to core to cloud, allowing customers to deploy AI use cases with Palantir in production within weeks or months, compared to the previous timeframe of months or years.
The companies are also collaborating to run Palantir software in Rackspace’s Private Cloud and UK Sovereign data centers, which is particularly important for regulated industries with strict data sovereignty and compliance requirements.
Organizations often struggle to extract business value from AI and data platforms due to the specialized expertise required for deployment and operation at scale. As Palantir’s strategic partner in data migration and global implementation services, Rackspace will assist customers in prioritizing high-impact business problems.
Rackspace will deliver implementation services, including data readiness, hosting, and ongoing managed operations of Palantir’s platform, to help customers realize outcomes. Rackspace has 30 Palantir-trained engineers focused on data migration and a forward-deployed approach to solving customer problems, with plans to scale to over 250 in the next 12 months.
Gajen Kandiah, CEO of Rackspace Technology, said that organizations need AI that works in production, not just in demos. He added that Palantir’s platform, combined with Rackspace’s governed cloud operations and shared forward-deployed engineering approach, enables customers to accelerate time to value and drive competitive business impact with governance and security, which is especially important in regulated industries.
The partnership combines Rackspace’s 25 years of experience managing mission-critical enterprise workloads across hybrid environments with Palantir’s decision-intelligence platform. It is designed to reduce risk and operational burdens and accelerate time to value. For regulated and data-sensitive organizations, the partnership aims to deliver greater confidence in deploying advanced AI capabilities in a private cloud environment that meets sovereignty, security, and residency requirements.
Sameer Kirtane, Head of US Commercial at Palantir, stated that organizations that adopt their AI Operating Systems fundamentally change their unit economics. He added that in the context of migrating complex data environments, Palantir AIP is taking completion timelines from years to days and that Rackspace will help customers accelerate their pace of adoption and lead their respective industries as a result.
Customers seek a consistent way to deploy, govern, and operate AI across their data environments, with accountability and measurable outcomes. The partnership is aimed at providing end-to-end infrastructure hosting, data migration, implementation services, and ongoing managed operations as an integrated service.
Unlike point solutions that require customers to manage infrastructure, data pipelines, and AI operations separately, this partnership is aimed at providing end-to-end infrastructure hosting, data migration, implementation services and ongoing managed operations as an integrated service.
For more information go to: go.rackspace.com/lp/cp/palantir-partnership-2026
Rackspace Technology is a hybrid multicloud and AI solutions company.
Palantir develops foundational software.
Source: Rackspace Technology
