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Markets round-up for the week: 11 February

Markets round-up for the week: 11 February

Distributor Infinigate says it achieved “over 14% growth” across EMEA and ANZ in the last quarter, and delivered “in excess” of €2 billion in revenue globally for the current financial year, to date.

The Middle East and Africa (MEA), and the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) regions posted the “strongest growth and exceeded targets”. Meanwhile, Infinigate continued to grow across Europe “despite its challenging economic climate”.

The latest results put Infinigate on track, it said, to achieve its financial year target, progressing towards its goal of €5 billion revenue for the financial year 2027-2028.

-SS&C Technologies, the provider of services and software to the financial services and healthcare industries, and which is also the owner of RPA (robotic process automation) specialist Blue Prism, saw full-year sales up 1.4% to $5.9 billion.

Net income was up 25.2% to $761.7m, after a 6.6% decline the previous year.

-Full year results at Amazon, showed that its Amazon Web Services cloud unit went past the $100 billion sales mark for the first time – reaching $107.6 billion. This was an increase of 19% over 2023.

Amazon itself generated an 11% increase in sales to $638 billion.

Amazon Web Services generated operating profits of $39.8 billion – representing almost 60% of Amazon’s total profits.

-According to the latest data from analyst house Canalys, worldwide tablet shipments grew 5.6% year-on-year in Q4 2025, reaching 39.9m units.

This brought total shipments for full-year 2024 to 147.6m units, up 9.2% compared with 2023. Growth was seen in all regions except North America, “marking a healthy recovery from the lows of 2023”, said the analyst.

-Worldwide data centre capex is projected to exceed $1 trillion annually by 2029, driven by strong growth in AI infrastructure, according to Dell'Oro Group's latest Data Center Capex 5-Year Forecast report.

Senior research director Baron Fung noted that AI-focused spending, particularly on accelerated servers and advanced computing, will make up nearly half of this investment. Despite sustainability challenges, innovations in AI model training and next-gen infrastructure are poised to enhance efficiency and lower costs.

The Dell’Oro Group’s latest report highlights a 21% CAGR in data centre capex, with “significant spending” from Tier 2 cloud service providers.

-More bad news at DXC Technology: The latest quarter showed further declines in revenue and profitability. Q3 25 revenue only reached $3.22 billion - a 51% decline year-on-year, and net income was down 55%.

-Digital public sector services specialist Made Tech delivered a very good first-half performance. For the six months ending November 2024, revenue grew 14% to £21.8m, while adjusted EBITDA increased 29% to £1.8m, representing an improved margin of 8.2% (H1 last time was 7.3%).

-DoiT, the cloud optimisation company, has acquired automated Kubernetes optimisation and governance platform PerfectScale.

With PerfectScale’s solution addressing the critical use case of autonomous and proactive resource optimisation for Kubernetes workloads, DoiT customers will now be able to manage, secure and optimise containerised workloads that run on Kubernetes, with “both efficiency and resilience at scale”, said DoiT.

The deal follows DoiT’s recent acquisition of LiveDiagrams, a cloud infrastructure visualisation and analysis software system.

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