Company:Cloudreach
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Short description: Public service consultancy
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Professional services |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Founders | James Monico Pontus Noren |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom Offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Berlin, Chicago , Cologne, Edinburgh, Munich, New York City , Paris, Vancouver , and Zurich. |
Key people | Tara Tapper (Chief Operating Officer) Marc Jones (Chief Financial Officer) |
| Services | Consulting |
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Number of employees | 700 |
| Website | https://www.cloudreach.com |
Cloudreach is a cloud computing consultancy, focused on the implementation and operational support of public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. It is headquartered in London, United Kingdom , and has offices in multiple countries around the world including Canada, France, Germany, India, The Netherlands, United States and Switzerland.
Publicly acknowledged customers include BP, Hearst, the Met Office, Skyscanner, Ströer and Time Inc. Cloudreach also owns two software systems developed in-house: Sceptre, an infrastructure automation suite for AWS; and Connect, an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).
On January 4, 2022, the company was acquired by Atos.[1]
History
- 2009: Cloudreach was founded in London by Pontus Noren and James Monico;
- 2011: it opened a second office in Edinburgh. In February 2017, Cloudreach was acquired by private equity firm Blackstone for an undisclosed amount.[2]
- 2017: in July, Cloudreach announced a partnership with T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom;
- 2017: in August, Cloudreach acquired two US-based businesses: Emerging Technology Advisors,[3] a cloud professional services company; and Cloudamize,[4] a cloud migration specialist. Cloudamize is a cloud computing analytics platform, providing analytics for cloud migration and management;
- 2018: in July, Aaron Painter was appointed as CEO of Cloudreach.[5] Pontus Noren subsequently became Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors;
- 2018: in August, Cloudreach acquired Relus Cloud, an Atlanta based data and analytics specialist; this took the Cloudreach headcount beyond 700;[6]
- 2019: in October, Brooks Borcherding is appointed COO and President and takes the role of interim CEO, later to become full time CEO.
- 2022: in January, Cloudreach is acquired by Atos.[7]
- 2023: in April, Atos launches the Eviden brand ahead of a €5 billion carve-out of their cloud, digital and security business lines.[8] Cloudreach becomes an Eviden business and will be integrated within the Eviden OneCloud group. Brooks Borcherding leaves the CEO position as Cloudreach comes under Eviden control, with Tara Tapper promoted to the Cloudreach Chief Operating Officer role.
References
- ↑ "Atos completes acquisition of Cloudreach" (in en-US). Business Wire. https://atos.net/en/2022/press-release_2022_01_04/atos-completes-acquisition-of-cloudreach/.
- ↑ "Blackstone acquires London-based cloud computing firm Cloudreach" (in en). Reuters. 2017-02-16. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cloudreach-m-a-blackstone-group-idUSKBN15V164.
- ↑ "Cloudreach acquires US-based consultants Emerging Technology Advisors" (in en-US). 9 August 2017. https://tech.eu/brief/cloudreach-emerging-technology-advisors/.
- ↑ "Cloudreach acquires US cloud company Cloudamize" (in en-US). 3 August 2017. https://tech.eu/brief/cloudreach-cloudamize/.
- ↑ "Blackstone-backed Cloudreach appoints Painter as CEO | ACQ5". https://www.acq5.com/post/blackstone-backed-cloudreach-appoints-painter-as-ceo/.
- ↑ "IT services company Cloudreach acquires Relus Cloud" (in en-US). 2018-08-14. https://siliconangle.com/2018/08/14/services-company-cloudreach-acquires-relus-cloud/.
- ↑ "Atos completes acquisition of Cloudreach" (in en-US). Business Wire. https://atos.net/en/2022/press-release_2022_01_04/atos-completes-acquisition-of-cloudreach/.
- ↑ "Atos launches Eviden brand ahead of €5 billion carve-out" (in en). 2023-04-14. https://www.consultancy.eu/news/8703/atos-launches-eviden-brand-ahead-of-5-billion-carve-out.
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