Today, Rackspace and Spiceworks have announced that they've entered a partnership that will enable SMBs to manage their cloud-based Rackspace e-mail hosting services through Spiceworks' free social IT management application. This is designed to streamline the IT professionals' workloads by allowing them to monitor and administrate Rackspace cloud email services within the Spiceworks IT dashboard instead of launching a separate portal.

With the partnership, Rackspace extends the functionality and reach of its hosted email services (including Rackspace Email, Microsoft Exchange, or a hybrid of both), through the use of Rackspace's APIs. Spiceworks benefits by continuing to provide SMB IT professionals with free management capabilities for their on-premise, cloud-based, or hybrid IT infrastructure.

Besides monitoring e-mail, IT professionals will be able to manage domains and collaborate with Spicework's social IT management application and community of 950,000 IT professionals.