Finance and M&A
SCC buys £8m document management firm
Acquisition of Hobs On-Site builds on 2014 purchase of print player M2
£10m data storage reseller Union Solutions sells up
New owner Claranet says acquisition will boost its on-premise and Azure capabilities
Public cloud mash-up: The best of the big three's earnings results
Public cloud leaders AWS, Microsoft and Google all released their quarterly results this week. We've picked out the key information from the trio's numbers
New buy-and-build IT services vehicle makes first acquisition
SICL snapped up in new M&A roll-up
Top UK Azure partner acquired by HPE
Shoreditch-based RedPixie, which specialises in migrating workloads to the public cloud, will be folded into HPE's Pointnext arm
Arrow Business Communications shoots for fourth acquisition
Comms VAR continues private equity-fueled spending spree
Salesforce set for $6.5bn acquisition
Vendor says acquired company will be the basis for its Integration Cloud
Cybersecurity firm Nettitude acquired by Lloyd's Register
Lloyd's Register swallows £10m Leamington Spa-based cybersecurity consultancy
ANS founder snares stake in cybersecurity firm
Tech entrepreneur Scott Fletcher lands 50 per cent slice of Cyber X
Maplin goes bust, with gadget price spikes partly blamed
PwC will trade the business as normal while it seeks a buyer
GTT boosts datacentre presence with Interoute acquisition
Cloud networking firm adds 15 datacentres and 51 co-location facilities with £1.6bn deal
CSI grabs 'struggling' Niu Solutions to form £57m-revenue IBM partner
Niu was reeling from the loss of a key client, but will hand CSI complementary skills in IBM and Microsoft Azure space, CSI's chief executive tells CRN
Tech firms on London's AIM see valuations rocket
Technology companies see value increase across the board, but services firms see strongest growth
VMware merger is 'worst-case scenario', would devalue it by $28bn - analysts
Analysts at Morgan Stanley question the shareholder value from a 'reverse merger' between VMware and Dell Technologies
Sophos shares slide 18 per cent despite 'strong' revenue growth
Oxford-based security vendor fails to impress investors as revenue rises but operating profit swings to loss
Connect Managed Services makes double acquisition
VAR says swoop on CoolHarbour hands it first-mover advantage in 'disruptive' Amazon Connect space as it announces maiden US purchase
Excalibur sharpens IT focus with acquisition
Comms VAR makes fifth acquisition in seven years
Infinigate hopes to hit €1bn in revenues in next five years
CEO says latest acquisition grows its presence in northern Europe
Fair cop: NEC acquires Northgate Public Services for security presence
Vendor snares Hemel Hempstead-based software and services firm for its close ties to the British police
Ambitious US reseller PCM buys UK Cisco Gold partner
Acquisition of £7.7m-revenue outfit Provista propels ambitious US reseller's UK headcount to 200
Vodat makes first acquisition by snapping up Cisco VAR
Firm extends ICT capability by buying Cheltenham-based reseller
Datto VP unsure if it will keep Autotask brand in post-merger plans
Datto-Autotask merger completed earlier this week, after being announced in October
Distie hails Atos' bid for rival Gemalto as 'tremendous opportunity for the channel'
A bid by French IT services firm Atos to snap up security specialist Gemalto has been praised as 'tremendous for the channel' by its UK distributor
