Orange acquires Basefarm to boost European cloud services

Orange has taken a huge step in the business cloud market, acquiring cloud infrastructure and critical application services firm Basefarm to help grow its Orange Business Services division.While Orange is a strong cloud player in France, it's looking to diversify the services it provides across Europe, strengthening its hold on the cloud sector. Basefarm already has a strong presence within Europe, particularly Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria and Germany, where it offers a range of cloud-based infrastructure and services, management of critical applications and analytics to help businesses get more insight from their usage data. “We are very proud to announce the acquisition of Basefarm, which will mark a major milestone in our international development," Helmut Reisinger, CEO of Orange Business Services, said. "In particular, the company’s integration will enable us to significantly extend our big data and critical application management services on a rapidly consolidating market.