Rackspace-Magento Partnership To Aid Open Hybrid Cloud Customers

It has been announced that Rackspace has become a Platinum level partner in the Hosting Partner Program at Magento. The announcement was made at the Magento Imagine Conference, and it is expected that the partnership will enable both companies to build and provide ecommerce solutions and entry into new markets to dedicated and open hybrid cloud customers.

A recent study has concluded that more Magento deployments are provided by Rackspace than by any other hosting services provider, with over 1,000 customers at present. These vary from small and medium sized businesses to Fortune 500 companies. With the announcement, it is expected that even more deployments will be taken on by Rackspace, and all will be supported by the company's expertise with Magento solutions, and the Fanatical Support service.

To demonstrate its commitment to both Magento and the Magento user community, a number of key relationships have been developed by Rackspace and many top solutions integrators in the market, in order to enable end-to-end integration with Rackspace.

The head of business development and partnerships for Magento, Ryan Thompson, said: "We view Rackspace as a high-quality partner, which has a strong reputation for helping customers of all sizes successfully implement Magento solutions. We are excited about Rackspace becoming a platinum level partner and through this expanded agreement, we will work together to make a deeper push into the enterprise market."

The CMO at Rackspace, Suaad Sait, said: "Over the past five years, Rackspace and Magento have developed a strong, lasting relationship with the shared goal of providing an optimal, end-to-end ecommerce solution. The ecommerce space is evolving and more online retailers are moving their back end infrastructure to the cloud. As demand increases and more businesses make the initial transition to the cloud, we look forward to ongoing collaboration with Magento to take advantage of this growing marketing opportunity." (CY) Link. Link