Rackspace Adds Innovative Professional Services Capabilities to the Rackspace Portfolio

Demand for public cloud professional services continues to grow. To help meet this demand, Rackspace has expanded its portfolio by acquiring Onica: the leading cloud-native professional and managed services provider.

This acquisition not only benefits customers who are quickly maturing on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and seeking professional services spanning the full spectrum of cloud expertise move, but it also moves Rackspace “up the stack” — solving customers’ business problems and providing business outcomes, in addition to infrastructure solutions.

Existing Onica customers will now benefit from Rackspace managed cloud services capabilities, Fanatical Experience™ and 24x7x365 access to expert support as well as additional capabilities across all the leading public and private clouds.

Existing Rackspace customers gain access to even more services that will help them accelerate the value of the cloud, including:

• Serverless
• Containers
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Edge
• Machine Learning (ML)
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Cloud-native application development
• Cost optimization expertise

Now, with a broad set of cloud services and unbiased expertise across all the leading technologies, Rackspace offers the most complete set of professional and managed services in the industry. This makes Rackspace the world’s leading cloud transformation partner.

For more information about the acquisition and the new capabilities available for existing Rackspace and Onica customers, see the press release.