Cloudreach is a

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consultancy, focused on the implementation and operational support of public cloud services, including

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Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure, often referred to as Azure ( , ), is a cloud computing platform operated by Microsoft for application management via around the world-distributed data centers. Microsoft Azure has multiple capabilities such as software as a ...

and

Google Cloud Platform Google Cloud Platform (GCP), offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Drive, and YouTube. Alongside ...

. It is headquartered in

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, UK, 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

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, Ströer and

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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

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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. * 2017: in July, Cloudreach announced a partnership with

T-Systems T-Systems International GmbH (T-Systems) is an internationally operating service provider for information technologies and digital transformation. The company is part of Deutsche Telekom AG and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. As of 2012, T ...

, a subsidiary of

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; * 2017: in August, Cloudreach acquired two US-based businesses: Emerging Technology Advisors, a cloud professional services company; and Cloudamize, a cloud migration specialist. Cloudamize is a cloud

computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, e ...

analytics platform, providing analytics for cloud migration and management; * 2018: in July, Aaron Painter was appointed as CEO of Cloudreach. 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; * 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

. * 2023: in April,

launches the Eviden brand ahead of a €5 billion carve-out of their cloud, digital and security business lines. 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.

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External links

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