Dimension Data acquires Opsource

Dimension Data is making further investment to its cloud business with the acquisition of cloud player, OpSource.

The California firm, which has operations in Virginia, the UK, Ireland and India, will become part of the Dimension Data’s Cloud Solutions Business Unit, reporting directly to CEO, Brett Dawson.

“Our decision to accelerate our focus on cloud services aligns to our long-standing strategy to become a services-led business,” says Dawson. “Over the past few years, Dimension Data has been building cloud-related skills and capabilities in the areas of virtualisation, datacentre and storage, managed services and hosting, and IT outsourcing – all critical to enabling cloud architectures for our clients.

“OpSource brings a rich set of services, a sound cloud architecture, and extensive experience in cloud services that will meet immediate client needs – in addition to a cloud infrastructure which supports development and growth in this space. We believe OpSource provides us with an accelerated time-to-market as their infrastructure and services are well-established and tested,” he adds.

According to Treb Ryan, OpSource CEO and co-founder, mapping a migration path and architectural design for cloud is complex:  “An understanding of IT integration across disparate multi-technology, multi-geography, IT environments is critical to evolving toward cloud-based architectures.  We believe that as part of Dimension Data, OpSource will be better able to capitalise on the global cloud computing market opportunity.”
Distributor Computerlinks last year launched its own brand “enterprise grade” cloud computing service to resellers through OpSource.