French Exclusive Group has bought Dublin-based VAD NextGen for an undisclosed sum providing the company with an Irish base.
NextGen has been in business since 2009 and counts Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, Arbor Networks and A10 Networks among its vendor partners. NextGen’s management team will remain in place, with country manager Gerry Sheldrick charged with leading further expansion in the Irish market.
Exclusive Group’s COO Barrie Desmond said that the acquisition has trebled his outfit’s customer base in Ireland.
He said that while the company did a lot of Irish business, it needed a footprint. We had a pod of people working in the territory, but this is the first time we’ve had a physical presence. The plan is to take on the existing vendors they have in Palo Alto Networks and Proofpoint and customers.
Exclusive Group is not the only one making a play in Ireland Computacenter and Softcat are doing the same thing. This is likely as there is a huge amount of datacentre and cloud activity [in Ireland] and a huge amount of investment.
