Buyer for cloud hosting company in Western Europe

• Revenue: 3-30M EUR
• Employees: not decisive
• Location of the target: Western Europe
• Reason for acquisition: The company is active in cloud hosting. It has a strategy for growing its operations in Western Europe via acquisitions, therefore the management is open to speaking to interested sellers
• #CFIE ITB163

The buyer is a cloud distributor, a company that enables IT organizations to focus on their business while their IT needs are taken care by the company’s team. This enterprise is a cloud hosting leader and has long time experience in the field. The team has the right knowledge and capabilities to take an organization’s digital services to the next level. The company has several offices in Europe and has the potential and the plan to grow the business further. It has completed more than 1500 cloud projects and has thousands of clients from worldwide. The company serves IT providers and in order to be able to provide the best solutions, the team has established strong partnerships with leading players such as HP, VMware, Equinix and ENGIE Datacenters. In total there are more than 100 partners that are engaged in delivering first class services. The company’s solutions are efficient, innovative and of a high quality which is determined by the best hardware, software, technologies and people. The company is compliant with ITIL standards and has multiple certifications such as ISO 20,000 and 27,001. The management is looking to buy a cloud hosting company in order to diversify the services and to grow the business operations. The target company needs to be located in Western Europe, has a revenue between 3-30M Euro and should have a robust portfolio of clients.

The company provides multi-cloud services for MSPs (Managed Service Providers) and ISVs (Independent Software Vendors). It owns several state-of-the-art data centers and helps customers to simplify their IT operations by offering them a solid infrastructure to build their respective enterprise IT services. It is an opportunity to decrease costs related to setting up, maintaining and managing a robust IT infrastructure as a Service, the company’s specialized engineers are able to take care of business-critical IT environments and deal with all types of IT challenges. A pay per use fee offers the access to a diverse range of cloud solutions that take away all the hassle related to IT infrastructure. From infrastructure, workspace and multi-cloud services to Sales & Marketing support, organizations have a large range of services and solutions that allow them to grow and consolidate their business.

The company’s multi-cloud solution enables IT providers to combine private and public cloud environments which allows different applications to have different cloud environment. This hybrid cloud makes it possible data and applications to be exchanged between private and public clouds. The company has its own cloud service, but also offers access to leading cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The client is assisted and advised to set up a flexible hybrid cloud environment. The company offers virtual data center solutions allowing its partners to serve their end customers with a tailored virtual environment so that each end customer gets its own resources needed. This solution is based on VMware vCloud technology.

The buyer is looking to acquire a company that is active in the cloud hosting area and provides services such as:

• Multi-Cloud
• Virtual Data Center
• Managed Hosting
• Co-Location
• Security
• ISV Cloud
• Disaster Recovery
• Back-up & Storage
• Infrastructure As a Service

• The buyer is a leading provider of multi-cloud services to MSPs and ISVs entities
• The company’s solutions allow IT organizations to take their digital services to the next level
• The buyer has decided to enlarge the business activities in Western Europe and is looking to acquire a cloud hosting company