From online to in-person, 2025 was a great year for Rakuten Cloud’s growth and achievements. The team seized numerous opportunities to educate and inform the market about our unique offering: market-leading cloud-native containerization software.
This powerful suite includes the Kubernetes-based Rakuten Cloud-Native Platform, comprehensive orchestration and automation via Rakuten Cloud-Native Orchestrator, and stateless, application-aware Rakuten Cloud-Native Storage. Together, these three components provide customers with a single, unified platform for any workload.
2025 was a year of extensive global outreach for the Rakuten Cloud team, allowing us to connect directly with customers worldwide. Our journey began in Spain at MWC Barcelona, where we joined the Rakuten Symphony team to champion cloud-native edge for mobile telecom networks. We expanded our reach by partnering with Dell for GITEX in Dubai, UAE, and MWC Doha 2025 in Qatar, in addition to our participation in the Rakuten Global Partner Summit in Tokyo.
Our tradeshow calendar also included KubeCon Europe in London, where we showcased Rakuten Cloud's capabilities in building out edge AI deployments. In April, we attended Google Cloud Next '25, where we highlighted our role as a cloud-native storage technology partner for Google Distributed Cloud Edge. This involved collaborative presentations, booth talks, and demonstrations on integrating Rakuten Cloud-Native storage within Google Distributed Cloud Edge environments.
We signed several new partners in 2025, including IDEAL for distribution in the Middle East and Africa, and SimplyTech and Wevy Cloud for distribution across Latin America. We are also working with Polystack to serve customers in India.
We also expanded our partnership with Google Cloud, enabling customers to access Rakuten Cloud software through the Google Cloud Marketplace. This agreement immediately granted customers worldwide access to the software.
We met with many of our new partners and their customers to help them better understand the impact of edge cloud on their businesses. For these partner events, we traveled to Las Vegas to participate in a Google partner event, visited Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia with SimplyTech, and went to Jakarta with Alita Praya Mitra.
To round out our distribution channel marketing efforts, we brought Google's Vijay Tewari and Rakuten Cloud's Oni Chakravartti onto our ZeroTouch Live LinkedIn Newsletter, which has more than 83,000 followers. In a lively conversation, the two discussed the impact of stateful edge on the success of edge computing.
Our digital footprint expanded significantly in 2025, driven by the redesign of our website and impactful content collaborations with some of the industry’s leading analyst firms and publications.
The new Rakuten Cloud website showcases a fresh visual identity, comprehensive product pages, and a dedicated Resource Center to house our growing catalog of informational content.
To further our thought leadership, we joined forces with leading industry voices:
Rakuten Cloud-Native Storage experienced a significant expansion this year with the introduction of its object storage offering. Joining our established block and file storage, this new capability empowers users to create highly scalable and economical storage solutions, ideal for diverse data types and formats.
This year proved to be exceptionally strong for industry recognition, with Rakuten Cloud receiving numerous prestigious awards and accolades from peers and experts. Among the significant honors garnered this year were:
Rakuten Cloud software was also extensively evaluated by Nokia and recognized as a recommended solution for its cloud-native core networks. This acknowledgment by an industry leader demonstrates that Rakuten Cloud is well-suited for mobile network applications.
As we look to the coming year, our plans are rapidly taking shape, driven by the strong momentum established this year. The team is already committed to maintaining a robust global presence, with confirmed participation at key industry events, including MWC Barcelona, where we will showcase cloud-native edge and mobile telecom advancements, and Google Cloud Next 2026, where we will strengthen our partnership with Google Cloud, particularly for Distributed Cloud Edge.
Building on this year's strong momentum, 2026 will bring accelerated growth, expanded partnerships, and new collaborations that further extend our market leadership and deliver greater customer value. Join us on this exciting journey as we continue to shape the future of cloud technology!
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