PRESS RELEASE:  TOKYO, JAPAN — NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) and CAPSiDE S.L. (CAPSiDE) have jointly announced today that NTT Com Managed Services has completed its 100% acquisition of CAPSiDE.

 

NTT Com Managed Services is headquartered in Barcelona in Spain and is a subsidiary of NTT Com.

Managed services are one of the most important strategic fields for NTT Com, a DX Enabler™ that helps customers to achieve digital transformations. NTT Com enhances the managed services' capability with CAPSiDE.

CAPSiDE specialises in integrated managed services, especially in Europe, for operations enabled with hyper-scale cloud services such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Through the acquisition, CAPSiDE, maintaining its independent operation, expands its service offering to all its current clients with value-added data centre and global communications services for complex enterprise environments and corporate end-to-end ICT professional services, at a global scale, for global customers, with NTT Com Managed Services.

Damian Skendrovic, CEO of NTT Com Managed Services commented, “I am delighted to welcome the CAPSiDE team, their clients, and partners to the NTT family. CAPSiDE's capabilities are very complementary to NTT's portfolio and solidify our public cloud offerings which are increasingly high in demand.”

Josep Ruano, CEO of CAPSiDE said, “This is an exciting time for CAPSiDE, our clients, and partners. Joining NTT will give CAPSiDE the ability to leverage NTT's global presence and resources to accelerate worldwide adoption of our comprehensive hyper-scale cloud managed services, highly-specialized cloud transformation consulting services and cloud enablement. Our goal is to continue to build “CAPSiDE, an NTT Company” into the best hyper-scale cloud managed services company in the industry.”

 

Overview of CAPSiDE:

Corporation:	CAPSiDE S.L.
Established:	2001
CEO:	Josep Ruano
Headquarters:	Barcelona, Spain
Business:	Consulting, automation and 24/7 operation of Cloud platforms
Main industries:	Retail, logistics, finance, and sports
Partners:	AWS – Premier Consulting Partner Microsoft – Gold Cloud Platform & Managed Partner Google – Cloud Platform Partner

 

About CAPSiDE:

 

Headquartered in Barcelona, with offices in Madrid, London and Lisbon, CAPSiDE has been making the world more reliable through the design, automation and 24×7 operation of critical digital platforms for more than 17 years.

CAPSiDE empowers its clients' businesses by designing and operating Cloud architectures that are highly efficient, reliable and auto scaling, leading companies into the digital transformation and the hyperscale Cloud adoption journey. CAPSiDE also develops reliable Cloud-automation tools for SysOps and DevOps processes in Cloud environments, focusing on better Cloud governance.

CAPSiDE counts with relevant project references, such as Carrefour, MANGO, Futbol Club Barcelona, Banc Sabadell, Wolters Kluwer, Grupo Zeta, Vueling and Royal Opera House; and on critical workloads such as eCommerce, Big Data, IoT and SaaS platforms.

For more information, please visit www.capside.com

 

About NTT Communications:

 

NTT Communications solves the world’s technology challenges by helping enterprises overcome complexity and risk in their ICT environments with managed IT infrastructure solutions. These solutions are backed by our worldwide infrastructure, including industry-leading, global tier-1 public and private networks reaching over 190 countries/regions, and more than 400,000m2 of the world’s most advanced data center facilities. Our global professional services teams provide consultation and architecture for the resiliency and security required for your business success, and our scale and global capabilities are unsurpassed. Combined with NTT Data, NTT Security, NTT DOCOMO and Dimension Data, we are NTT Group.

 

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