Irish distributor Data Solutions is looking to triple its business to £60 million with a new office in the UK. It is working with enterprise computing company Nutanix who is keen to grow into this market.
Data Solutions specialises in data centres, security and unified communications. The company, which has achieved steady year-on-year growth over the past 25 years in the UK and Ireland, will hire 10 new positions in its Reading office by 2018 to coincide with the expansion. It expects its UK operations to grow to the same size as its Irish business by then, targeting £30 million in revenues in Ireland in the same year.
To lead the UK expansion, the IT solutions distributor has appointed Sean Fane as UK managing director for the company. Sean brings more than 20 years’ sales and business experience in the UK, including an executive role at IQ-Sys, the leading UK distributor in the virtualisation market.
A “huge factor” in Data Solutions’ decision to create a UK presence comes from its new partnership with Nutanix. Data Solutions will work with Nutanix to to offer its hyperconverged infrastructure to enterprise customers.
Speaking about the announcement, Sean Fane, UK managing director, Data Solutions, said: “Our core value is passion for partner growth, and we are dedicated to creating profitable, incremental sales for our resellers through pro-active teamwork and ‘hands-on’ business development activities, training and support. Our ‘back-office’ team has a depth of sales and marketing skills and experience, and has a track-record of achieving results for emerging technology companies.”
Michael O’Hara, group managing director, Data Solutions said: “We’ve achieved exponential growth for our vendors in the Irish market over the past few years through a strong, value-based business model and this approach in the UK market will deliver strong results. We look forward to enabling resellers to take advantage of the opportunities with this fast-growing technology and bolstering our UK presence with Nutanix.”