Cloud Direct

| March 12, 2015

G-Cloud has the potential to offer savings of up to 50 per cent on a like for like procurement and around £23,000 in admin costs alone, said Government Digital Services director and head of the G-Cloud programme Tony Singleton.Singleton, who was speaking at the Cloud Expo conference in London this week, said that while the procurement framework is not perfect it has made significant strides in the right direction....

| June 25, 2014

Cloud Direct, a UK-based cloud services provider specialising in cloud brokerage, integration and automation has secured a £1m cash infusion, which will allow the company to accelerate its growth plans.Founded in 2002, Cloud Direct delivers a range cloud services – hosted desktops, applications, unified comms – to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), and offers service integration and business continuity services to customers. It claims over 4,000 UK customers....

sdxcentral.com | January 23, 2020

Arista Networks bought SDN vendor Big Switch Networks, according to sources familiar with the deal.The purchase is Arista’s largest acquisition to date, according to a source. It’s also the networking vendor’s third acquisition Arista in 2018 snapped up cloud-managed WiFi firm Mojo Networks and then a month later bought Metamako, a provider of low-latency field programmable gate array (FPGA) products.While Arista ultimately won, Big Switch had a long list of suitors that wanted...

bloomberg.com | January 21, 2020

Google signed a 10-year deal with travel-software provider Sabre Corp., a key win for the search giant in the competitive cloud-computing market.Sabre will pay Google to handle parts of its information-technology system and for data-analytics tools. Additionally, the companies agreed to collaborate on online travel services, a sign of Google leaning on its massive consumer business to lure enterprise clients.Sabre and Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced the partnership on Tuesday as a “...