Logicalis Acquires Thomas Duryea Consulting, an Australian Cloud and Data Centre Services Business

LONDON, December 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Combined businesses to offer complementary services 

Logicalis, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, today announced it has acquired Thomas Duryea Consulting, a leader in designing, building and deploying data centre, data management, enterprise information systems, systems management and cloud environments for mid-sized and large enterprises.

With an annual turnover of approximately US$50 million Thomas Duryea employs 125 staff in its data centre and mature cloud services business, with capabilities across EMC, Dell, NetApp, VMware and Microsoft.

Mark Rogers, Logicalis CEO, comments: "This acquisition is strategically important for Logicalis, building strength and additional scale into our Australian operation, while Thomas Duryea's deep professional services capabilities in desktop, data centre, storage and cloud are a perfect fit with Logicalis Australia's existing expertise. As a result, the combined businesses represent a very compelling value proposition for customers and will strengthen our relationship with key vendor partners EMC, Dell, NetApp, VmWare and Microsoft."

About Thomas Duryea 

Thomas Duryea Consulting is one of Australia's leading IT infrastructure consultancies, specialising in all aspects of Information Technology, from managed services, through to data centre, data management, systems management and cloud consulting.

About Logicalis 

Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and collaboration; data centre and cloud services; and managed services.

Logicalis employs over 4,000 people worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex IT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 6,500 corporate and public sector customers.  To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, Microsoft, Oracle, VMware and ServiceNow on an international basis, and has specialised solutions for enterprise and medium-sized companies in vertical markets covering financial services, telecommunications, media and technology, education, healthcare, retail, government, manufacturing and professional services, helping customers benefit from cutting-edge technologies in a cost-effective way.

The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues of over $1.5 billion, from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, and is one of the leading IT and communications solution integrators, specialising in the areas of advanced technologies and services.

The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, with revenues of over $6 billion.

For more information, visit http://www.logicalis.com.

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