Cloudy outfit Node4 announced that Hannah Birch had joined the company as its new managing director of digital and group board member.
Her brief includes managing the MSP’s digital business and strengthening its strategic relationship with Microsoft, leveraging Node4’s recent investments.
Node4 founder and CEO, Andrew Gilbert said: ”Birch understands how to drive transformational growth strategies, creating deeper value-based relationships with clients. ”
Node4 has written a cheque for the independent Microsoft Business applications partner Tisski.
The deal is part of a cunning plan to strengthen Node4’s ability to deliver Microsoft solutions by adding Microsoft Dynamics customer experience and relationship management.
Established in 2011, Tisski is a Microsoft Gold Partner and Cloud Solutions Provider and works primarily with public sector organisations, including the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Transport.
MSP Node4 has acquired Risual to boost its Microsoft Azure skills.
Risual will add an operation that has Microsoft Azure Expert MSP status, 170 staff and a customer base that has been built up over 17 years. The company’s staff were one of the main benefits of the deal and will strengthen Node4’s ability to support customers looking for support with digital transformation.
Node4 CEO Andrew Gilbert said: “As Node4 evolves as a business delivering more cloud-led transformation services, risual represents a perfect fit given its track record, consultancy skills and managed services in the public cloud.With complementary Microsoft skillsets, Node4 and risual are ideally suited to deliver the change that matters for clients and the transformation outcomes they need.”
Derby-based Cloud MSP Node4 has acquired Microsoft Dynamics 365 partner TNP.
It is the outfit’s largest acquisition after it was bought by Providence Equity partners from PE firms Bowmark Capital and LDC.
TNP flogs dynamics 365 Business Central, Power Apps and Power BI gear and bills itself as the “largest pure-play Microsoft partner in the UK”.
CEO of Node4 Andrew Gilbert said that everything from its leadership and team to culture and capabilities resonates with Node4’s approach.
Cloudy MSP Node4 has a new equity backer to help in its expansion plans.
Providence Equity Partners, an equity firm that specialises in the media, communications, education, software and services industries and no one is saying how much cash is involved.
Over the past five years, Node4 has achieved strong organic growth through significant new customer wins and the provision of a broader range of information and communications solutions to its existing clients. During this period, significant investment has been made in people, systems, skills and the product portfolio, which has positioned Node4 to capitalise on the opportunity for cloud-led digital transformation growth.
Cloudy Managed Services Provider (MSP) Node4, has acquired Starcom which is the MSP division of K3 Business Technologies Group (K3).
The acquisition will see Starcom Technologies become part of Node4’s comprehensive portfolio of services, further adding to its capability of delivering enhanced cloud-managed services throughout the UK. It also expands the company’s operational presence with offices in Scotland, the North West and South East England.
Starcom has annualised revenues of £11 million and Node4 said the acquisition presents a huge opportunity for Node4 to continue its growth as a leading national provider of cloud managed services, expanding its operational footprint while deepening the company’s cloud hosting expertise with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems such as SYSPRO, Sage and Microsoft Dynamics.
Node4, the UK-based cloud, data centre and communications provider, has launched its Services Gateway.
Designed to help customers realise the value of digital transformation, the Services Gateway allows them access IT infrastructure and solutions. All solutions are underpinned by Node4’s end-to-end infrastructure including tier 3+ data centres, core network, cloud and collaboration platforms.
The Services Gateway also allows Node4 customers to benefit from hybrid solutions, supported by partners including Office365, AWS and Microsoft Azure to make sure that applications and workloads are on the most efficient infrastructure.
Paul Bryce, Chief Commercial Officer, Node4 said: “Node4’s history of owning and running data centres, including our cloud platform, gives customers the option to either host with us physically or in the cloud. It gave us the pedigree to then build our network, on which we can now offer customers a gateway to leverage multiple services across the Node4 portfolio as well as other providers.”
“Our Services Gateway supports customers in placing their workloads on the right infrastructure while maintaining control, backups, continuity and security,” he said.
The Services Gateway allows customers to easily transition to a digital environment, without the risk or costs associated with making all legacy equipment redundant at once. By taking a customer’s legacy hardware and moving it into Node4’s environment, customers can access new services alongside their existing infrastructure.
Node4 can also support customers that want to modernise legacy applications.
Bryce said: “Node4 can work with customers, developers and application support teams to review existing applications and see if they are suitable for containerisation. Containerising legacy applications not only allows customers to deploy applications on modern operating systems and infrastructure such as the Node4 Cloud but it supports a reduction of on-premise legacy server footprint, by removing the requirement to support old hardware and out of support operating systems.”
Cloud and data centre player Node4 has issued a market report which shows that the mid-market is feeling rather optimistic despite Brexit.
The mid-market has long been one of the number one target areas for the channel and it is believed that budgets in that segment will rise this year.
Node4 said that while Brexit is a dark cloud which is causing some concerns with business leaders worried about the impact that the process to leave the EU will have on their prospects, most mid-market firms are optimistic.
More than 77 percent of mid-market firms are expecting budgets to rise this year with 22 percent of that total looking forward to more than a 10 percent increase.
Hosted and cloud-based services are scooping up most of the cash with IaaS and security as a service the two top areas. Managed services and disaster recovery as a service are expected to follow suit.
A third of those quizzed had Brexit concerns and many thought that the channel could be doing more to support them through potentially challenging times.
Paul Bryce, business development director at Node4 said that mid-tier companies were the UK economy’s engine and so it was promising that investment was taking place in the IT infrastructure that will help to fuel further growth.
“It is no surprise that mid-market companies are embracing the cloud, which affords a huge opportunity to drive efficiency, agility, scalability, and to empower workforces,” he said.
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