Cox Business, the commercial division of Cox Communications, recently announced its acquisition of RapidScale.
The acquisition enhances Cox Business’ managed services portfolio by combining transport and connectivity with RapidScale’s managed and hybrid cloud offerings. The strengthened connected cloud platform delivers a wide range of technology to help businesses improve productivity and reduce IT expenditures. RapidScale’s managed cloud solutions, including desktop, server, mail, backup and recovery, provide reliable, innovative and secure services to complement any organization’s IT efforts.
“Businesses today need a true technology partner to deliver innovation that helps them transform operations, better engage with customers and remain competitive,” said Steve Rowley, executive vice president, Cox Business. “Adding RapidScale to the Cox family, grows our business in a strategic manner by improving our cloud platform and enhances our value to business customers, regardless of size or vertical market.”
“Joining Cox is an opportunity to continue to innovate and expand our existing products meet businesses IT needs both today and, in the future,” said Randy Jeter, co-founder and chief executive officer, RapidScale. “Cox and RapidScale share a commitment to delivering leading technologies with second-to-none customer service.”
The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
