Rackspace has acquired the San Francisco-based Cloudkick, a cloud management and monitoring company. The sum of the acquisition was not disclosed, but the acquisition of the 1500-client and 1 million supported servers worth company is an attempt by Rackspace to delve further into cloud management.

“Today, Rackspace is a hosting company that offers cloud services. With Cloudkick, Rackspace moves up a bit higher on the cloud stack. Cloudkick will also come in handy as Rackspace moves to blend its hosting and cloud services.”

It was a pretty clean exit for Cloudkick, and it’s one that SiliconANGLE friend Rich Levandov was a big part of the deal.  In fact, Levandov has been on a winning streak lately, as he was also a part of the Pictela acquisition by AOL, announced just this morning.  In the end, it’s Rackspace that wins out, as the purchase enables them to grow out some of their other iniatives.  Rackspace has an eye on boosting its enterprise client services, a goal they shared in a recent announcement.

“And although Nimsoft and Cloudkick both can monitor cloud, managed and on-premise servers, Nimsoft appears to provide management capabilities beyond what Cloudkick provides, especially as it relates to managing physical servers…art of Rackspace’s business as an MSP is to provide support atop a variety of third-party services, so it might give customers the choice of using either service.”

Rackspace recognized Cloudkick early on, in addition to others. The cloud host is steadily scaling up, and Cloudkick’s acquisition is a big move for the company who also launched two new enterprise offerings recently, Cloud Connect and Critical Sites, as we covered here.