Rackspace, Tech Mahindra join up to expand customer base

Rackspace has entered into a strategic partnership with Tech Mahindra, which will enable cross-selling to the latter’s customer base, joint product and services offerings, and improvements to former’s internal business applications and processes. 

With this partnership, Rackspace will execute a new go-to-market commercial model and benefit from improvements and efficiencies to the management of business applications and processes.

Partnering with Tech Mahindra will help Rackspace enable more customers close the gap between the complex reality of today and the promise of tomorrow, accelerating the value of the cloud during every phase of their digital transformation.   

“Tech Mahindra’s understanding of innovative and customer-centric IT experiences is uniquely complimentary to how Rackspace provides a ‘Fanatical Experience,’” said Subroto Mukerji, COO at Rackspace, alluding to one of the company’s solutions.

“With about 121,000 associates working across 90 countries and helping 938 global customers, including Fortune 500 companies, this partnership will allow us to drive far more business impact for our customers,” Mukerji said. 

The partnership will provide improvements and efficiencies for running multiple Rackspace business applications and processes. Rackspace will continue to own their application strategy and roadmap, while Tech Mahindra will bring world-class expertise and best practices to deliver against this.  

Rackspace chose to partner with Tech Mahindra because of a close alignment between the respective companies’ culture, growth, innovation and go-to-market strategies.