Atea is acquiring Columbus’ private cloud services business, with a small number of Columbus staff transferring from the Denmark firm to the Norway-headquartered one as a result.
The investment comes after a major Atea partnership agreement with Microsoft to bring the Azure cloud platform to more Danish customers. Kathrine Forsberg, Atea Denmark managing director, said: “The agreement with Columbus has great strategic value for us. Last year, we invested heavily in cloud and managed services and have experienced significant growth in the areas included in this agreement with Columbus.
“It’s a perfect match and we see ourselves as a natural cloud partner for the customers we are now taking over, we look forward to helping them continue their digital journey.”
With the sale of the private cloud business, Columbus says it is now focusing its infrastructure managed services business on public cloud solutions that target the company’s customers within the key industries of food, retail and production.
Hans Henrik Thrane, interim CEO and corporate CFO at Columbus, said: “We can now focus our Columbus Care business on public cloud and our large portfolio of application management services.”
In 2019, Columbus sold its Dutch software business to the Van Mourik Group.
