French integrator Sopra and European developer Steria have agreed on a merger, which will create a major player with a combined revenue of €3.1bn and operations in 24 countries, employing 35,000 in Europe and Asia.
Dell has announced it has chosen Pironet NDH, provider of cloud computing, as one of its first partners under the Dell’s programme for Managed Service Providers in Germany, it says.
London-based venture capital investor Balderton Capital has completed its fifth European fund and raised $305m (€222.6m), bringing its total funds to $2.2bn (€1.6bn), to invest in European technology start-ups.
Solutions vendor Huawei has announced its contribution into a new mobile money service in Romania as it has delivered a new platform for Vodafone’s new M-Pesa service.
Pluribus Networks, specialist in open architecture, has announced its expansion plans across Europe with new deployments in the UK, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Portugal.
With demand squeezed by PC weakness and SSD cannibalisation, Gartner forecasts global hard drive shipments will post a 2.9% CAGR from 2013-2018, growing from 552 million units to 635.1 million. High-capacity business-critical drives as used by Web/cloud service providers, are expected to fuel much of the industry's growth by delivering a 25.1% CAGR.
Netherlands-based Vistaprint NV, an online provider of marketing products and services to micro businesses and the home, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pixartprinting Srl for a base purchase price of approximately €127 million, resulting in Vistaprint ownership of 97% of Pixartprinting, and 3% retained ownership by Pixartprinting’s founder.
Capita plc, BPO and integrated support service solutions specialist, has announced its acquisition of Updata Infrastructure, a UK-based IT network services provider, for a cash consideration of £80m (€96.4m).
This year's European IT Excellence Awards shows just how diverse the IT supply industry has become with solutions ranging from construction site management to healthcare systems and government document control, and from all parts of Europe.
Tech Data Europe will supply Google’s indirect channel across Europe with services around the Chromecast media streaming device. Chromecast has just gone on sale in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.