Taylor Rhodes, who’s about 4 weeks into his new gig as Rackspace(s rax) president, admits the company may have spread itself a little thin of late, but it can now focus on what he calls a hybrid system of options.

“We don’t see dedicated hosting as our old business but as a killer feature of a hybrid cloud, we can now do public cloud multi-tenant, dedicated single tenant and now with OpenStack private cloud we bring a private cloud to the table and will integrate that into a single system that lets customers choose the right option,” he said.

He also raised the tantalizing prospect of Rackspace managing multi-vendor clouds at some point by extending what it’s knows about managing customers’ private OpenStack clouds remotely. So could customers user Rackspace to manage mixed Amazon/other clouds? Not in the next year, this could be a longer-term aspiration.

But first, Derrick Harris and…