ANS poaches duo to front cloud assault

Former CMS staff Martin Young and Darryl White tasked with taking VAR into cloud

Mancunian VAR ANS Group is launching a cloud push that will be driven by two new recruits nabbed from local rival CMS.

Martin Young and Darryl White recently joined ANS and have been tasked with driving its expansion into the cloud

ANS said it works with vendors Cisco, NetApp, VMware, Commvault and Microsoft to provide managed solutions in areas such as back up and archiving, system monitoring, Exchange and SharePoint.

These managed services will be combined with a managed cloud infrastructure solution which is consumed on a per-user, pay-as-you-grow model, ANS added.

Paul Sweeney, managing director of ANS (pictured), said: "This expansion opens an exciting new avenue for ANS Group and we are tremendously excited about the opportunities that it presents.

"More and more companies are attracted to the significant financial and operational benefits that can be realised by outsourcing IT functions to a secure cloud provider."