WightFibre has acquired Click4Internet to provide superfast services across the island
Acquisitions
Claranet gets new sales director for expanded business
Stentiford joins after recent acquisitions and cross-selling is key
Cisco Sells Connected Devices Unit To Technicolor For £388m
Cisco and Technicolor will also work on multimedia technologies and share patents in new partnership
Capita acquires Scottish IBM VAR Barrachd
The VAR is a specialist in business analytics and follows a number of other recent Capita acquisitions
Claranet expands portfolio with two acquisitions
The MSP has bought disaster recovery and Linux services firms
EMC expands cloud offering with $1.2bn Virtustream buy
EMC says it can now offer the industry’s 'most comprehensive hybrid cloud portfolio' to support 'all applications, all workloads and all cloud models'
IT Lab acquires Manchester’s JMC to expand nationally
With a combined turnover approaching £30 million, a 300-strong team, and in excess of 750 clients, the new firm will target SMEs and the mid-market
Capita acquires HP wifi VAR Pervasive
The Technology Solutions division was also recently expanded with Capita's acquisitions of Solid State Solutions and Network Technology Solutions
EE fall-out from BT takeover will have to wait until next year
BT has this week made its formal submission to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, seeking approval for the proposed acquisition, but says it could still take up to March
K3 Hosting acquires Willow Starcom for £1.75m
K3 is now able to service both enterprise level and SME businesses across a variety of sectors, with solutions for both hosted and on premise environments
Nokia’s Alcatel-Lucent acquisition welcomed by analysts
The deal is expected to deliver operational savings and create a stronger challenger against the likes of Ericsson and Huawei
Service group Exclusive posts 91 percent sales increase
Exclusive Group's almost doubling of sales for the year has been aided by global expansion of services through acquisitions and partnerships
Dell Readies BYOD Security Play With Credant Buy
Dell is splashing the cash on acquisitions as it snaps up data protection specialist Credant
Iomart Group announces positive half year financials
And announces plans to expand existing data centre
Advanced Business Solutions buys ATMS
Wants a cut of the lucrative third party logistics market
Eptica buys Lingway
Move will strengthen portfolio and optimise customer offerings
Avnet buys Genilogix
IT application lifecycle management company to offer resellers and partners more opps
GFI Software buys multi-platform mobile device management
Will integrate service into its offerings
Six Degrees Group completes buyout of Aurora Networks
Purchase willl strengthen Six Degrees' areas in IP telephony and video conferencing
MDSL buys Innodoc
Creates new company and services
Iomart Group buys Melbourne Server Hosting
Cloud hosting company also confirms another purchase
Oracle buys Xsigo
To help its customers increase application performance
Six Degrees Group completes buy out of Cloud Computing Centre
And secures £8 million in new funding from Penta Capital
Lloyds Bank gives iomart Group £20 million revolving credit
Group says it will use the cash for business expansion
Salesforce.com buys GoInstant
Adds to sharing portfolio
Ingram Micro buys BrightPoint
Moves into wireless device distribution market
Daisy Group posts positive annual results
Pledges to make more acquisitions
Top UK IBM reseller posts bumper growth
ChannelBiz UK talks with Portal CEO Shamus Kelly
Google acquires QuickOffice
Spate of acquisitions show Google's getting serious
IDC skeptical about CGI’s £1.7 billion Logica buy
Taking the money and running, claim
