Reliam LLC (Reliam),
a consulting and managed services provider for public cloud platforms including
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, and Great Hill Partners, the Boston-headquartered growth capital firm focused
on investments in high growth, mid-market technology companies, today announced
the acquisition of AWS consulting and managed services provider Stratalux. Both Reliam and Stratalux are leading Los
Angeles-based cloud services companies, acutely focused on enabling businesses
to successfully transform and optimize their cloud strategy and operations.
The combined business will boast more than 100
mid-market and enterprise customers across industries including media and
entertainment, mobile games, digital media, marketing, ecommerce, and
software-as-a-service. Specializations and competencies of the combined expert
cloud team will include cloud strategy consulting, migrations, cloud
architecture, solution design, security and governance, cost optimization,
DevOps implementation, application performance management, and 24/7 managed
services and support for a wide range of workloads running on the cloud
worldwide.
The transaction was funded through an add-on
investment into the parent platform company by Great Hill Partners, which made
an initial
investment in Reliam in November
2017.
The Stratalux culture, technical talent, and
depth of customers across industries – together with its customer-focused
approach to delivering high value cloud consulting and managed services – makes
it a particularly strong fit for Great Hill Partners and Reliam. The companies
have each grown successfully through strong customer referrals fueled by their
service as trusted advisors to organizations needing to confidently leverage
cloud platforms to transform and grow their business. Combined services will
deliver customers greater cost efficiencies, more flexibility, faster product
development, and rapid scalability by optimizing cloud operations and
architecture.
With the integration of Stratalux, Reliam adds
significant headcount – particularly of AWS-certified cloud and DevOps
engineers and solution architects. The deal will further enable Reliam to
strengthen its partnership with AWS throughout 2018 and continue to accelerate
the adoption of the AWS Cloud for customers worldwide.
“We have been impressed with Stratalux’s
successes in the AWS cloud services ecosystem, and our teams are really excited
to be joining forces,” said Simon Anderson, CEO, Reliam. “Our combined team and
expert insights into how best to migrate or run apps and workloads on AWS – and
then execute continuous integration of software and performant management of
data – will enable our customers to rapidly leverage the latest innovations in
cloud computing services including serverless computing, artificial
intelligence, and machine learning.”
“We’ve long viewed Reliam as a respected
colleague that approaches cloud consulting and managed services with the same
dedication and customer-centric viewpoint as we do,” said Jeremy Przygode, CEO
& Founder of Stratalux, who will continue on as the combined companies’
President, Media & Entertainment, and become a member of the board of
directors. “We really look forward to combining our talents and capabilities,
as we grow together to improve on the cloud-centric advantages we deliver for
customers.”
“Reliam and Stratalux are a particularly
complementary pair of businesses, and the combination of these companies will
add up to more than the sum of its parts,” said Drew Loucks, Principal at Great
Hill Partners. “We’re eager to witness all that this highly capable combined
organization accomplishes in the rapidly growing cloud managed services space.”
