Rackspace Technology announced an expanded, long-term strategic partnership with Google Cloud with a focus on helping customers accelerate their digital transformations and adoption of Google Cloud infrastructure and solutions. As a part of the expanded partnership, the Rackspace Technology expert teams will build innovative solutions in the areas of Data, AI, Migrations, Application modernization, and Industry use cases to help customers realize the value of Google Cloud. Rackspace Technology will significantly expand its services capacity for Google Cloud customers by building a world-class Rackspace Technology Google Cloud services team.

The expanded strategic partnership is a 360-degree relationship that will generate new industry-focused solutions to accelerate customers' cloud agendas. As part of this partnership, Rackspace Technology will invest in expanding its dedicated Google Cloud Business Unit across the globe, optimize spend, and focus on creating differentiated solutions, sales, and delivery experiences to help customers get the most out of Google Cloud investments. The Rackspace Technology dedicated experts will work with experts from Google Cloud to support customers with strategy and cloud-native development to accelerate innovation on Google Cloud.

In addition, as part of the expanded partnership, Google Cloud is working with Rackspace Technology to develop a Rackspace Google Cloud Center of Excellence to train and develop Rackers to gain expertise on Google Cloud products and solutions.