India, April 25 -- Managed cloud services company Rackspace has named its third CEO in two years, tapping Kevin Jones as the new boss.

If you haven't heard of Jones, don't feel bad. He hasn't come from the telco or cloud networking industry; he was most recently CEO of MV Transportation. But Jones isn't a technology newbie; he previously worked at DXC Technology, an IT solution provider, as well as Hewlett Packard Enterprise and its predecessor, Hewlett Packard, Dell and Electronic Data Systems.

Jones succeeds Joe Eazor, who sat in the big chair for just shy of two years.

Jones has an "outstanding track record of leading and transforming businesses by inspiring organizations to increase revenue, profitability, market share, customer sati...