Popular web hosts, Rackspace, announced on Wednesday that it would be forming a strategic relationship with web application acceleration and performance management specialists, Akamai.
Rackspace say that partnership will “deliver top performance and availability for [their] customers'' websites, web content, and web applications” by providing them with bill consolidation, hosting-plus-acceleration, consolidated accountability and Rackspace''s award-winning Fanatical Support.
Rackspace will try to integrate some of Akamai’s services such as, CNAMEs, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and CDN delivery for Cloud Files, to its current customers. They will also resell a range of essential Akamai site and application acceleration services to its customers in an attempt to create a “one-stop shop for hosting, cloud, and acceleration services for web content and applications.”
The partnership will initially begin with Akamai’s “content delivery services being integrated with Cloud Files, a Rackspace service that provides highly scalable online storage for files and media.” Akamai’s other services will then be offered either as an add-on or as an embedded suite of services.
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