Company to expand its deployment options via agreement with Rackspace.

StrongMail Systems, Inc., a provider of on-premise solutions for marketing and transactional email, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Rackspace Hosting, Inc., a hosting services provider, to become a Strategic Partner in the Rackspace Solution Partner Network. The company says that this relationship features reseller and referral programs between the two companies, as well as a new hosted deployment offering for its marketing and transactional email solutions, StrongMail On-Demand.

It articulates that the new relationship combines its technology with hosting services from Rackspace, giving companies multiple deployment options for commercial-grade marketing and transactional email solutions. The company claims that the combined offering provides companies with the benefits of an on-premise solution with no hidden fees like those associated with an ESP offering, and without having to apply IT resources for ongoing system maintenance and management.

''Teaming with Rackspace enables us to extend our business to a whole new category of customers – those who want the benefits of an on-premise solution without having to host and manage it,'' said Sam Cece, CEO of StrongMail Systems. ''We chose Rackspace as our hosting partner because of their reputation as the industry's premier IT hosting company and because they share our philosophy toward customer support. The result is an unrivaled email marketing platform for customers who prefer a hosted solution in a high-security environment.''

''We look for industry leaders like StrongMail to help us add greater value to our customer offerings,'' said Scott White, director, channel sales, Rackspace Hosting. ''We were impressed with StrongMail's unrelenting focus on meeting customer needs, like their development of stringent vetting processes to adhere to spamming guidelines, which mirrors our commitment. Because of this synergy, we felt that StrongMail was the perfect company to work with to expand both company offerings."