15 RESELLER NEWS NoBlue2 snaps up BrightBridge to expand Oracle NetSuite base Oracle NetSuite solution provider NoBlue2, created in June from the merger of NoBlue and Elevate2, is continuing to make the most of the growth investment received from FPE Capital (FPE) by acquiring a third big hitter in the sector, BrightBridge Solutions Ltd. The addition of BrightBridge’s 46 employees and 150 enterprise customers makes NoBlue2 one of Europe’s largest Oracle NetSuite partners with approximately 130 employees, more than 400 customers and revenues of over £16 million. BrightBridge, a top three Oracle NetSuite EMEA Partner, also brings significant capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics and Sage systems, enabling NoBlue2, previously an exclusively Oracle NetSuite provider, to provide an expanded offering. NoBlue2 is planning to invest further in application development and related services and to continue to scale the business through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth. www.noblue.co.uk risual £74 million contract win risual, a Node4 company has won a two-year £74 million contract to support the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in developing new citizen-facing digital services across several of the department’s key programmes. The contract to deliver top-tier application development services was won in partnership with Eviden, an Atos business through the UK Government Crown Commercial Service Digital Services Provider (DSP) framework. risual CEO Alun Rogers said: “Through our partnership with Eviden, we are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge application development services that will play a crucial role in enhancing the citizen experience. This partnership exemplifies the power of collaboration and our shared commitment to improving services across the Public Sector.” risual, a tech consultancy specialising in transformative digital solutions and cloud services, with expertise in Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and cybersecurity, was acquired by Node4 in 2022. www.node4.co.uk Agilico reduces environmental impact with new Gateshead office Workspace, IT and telecom solutions provider Agilico has consolidated its two existing offices in the North-East of England into a purpose-built, energyefficient facility in Team Valley, Gateshead. Bringing 70 staff employed in the North-East under one roof is expected to improve collaboration and communication between different departments, including the region’s finance, sales, IT and telecoms support, engineering, human resources, account management and business development teams. Warren Colby, who heads up the Team Valley plant, said: “The new office provides a more collaborative and cleaner space for those who didn’t have enough room before. It’s a step towards fostering a more united, efficient and cohesive workforce.” The 20,000 sq. foot state-of-the-art workspace should also reduce the company’s environmental impact, with optimised heating, ventilation, and lighting systems and just one set of overheads instead of two. Alongside this move, Agilico has additional capacity for an expanded its refurbished centre at the Team Valley site, enabling it to become an IT refurbishing hub for the local area and neighbouring regions across the north of England. www.agilico.co.uk Mark Bjornsgaard FarrPoint trio inspiring Orkney students Three members of the Edinburgh office of independent connectivity and smart technology consultancy FarrPoint recently travelled to Orkney to take part in the Orkney International Science Festival (September 7-13). The trip was undertaken in partnership with Highlands and Islands Enterprise to inspire young people to consider a career in telecoms at a time when 60% of telecoms engineers are over 50 and 42% of telecoms businesses report a skills gap in the labour market. As part of the Festival’s Family Day, FarrPoint Telecoms Consultant Alan Patterson, GIS Consultant Nikki Robertson and Head of Marketing Kristina Vard (shown in photo) visited Kirkwall Grammar School to deliver two ‘Connectivity and the Internet of Things’ workshops. Alan Patterson said: “Everyone’s talking about careers in STEM, but you don’t hear much about working in telecoms, so it may not be the first career choice that comes to mind! However, it’s a sector that has seen huge developments recently and is fastpaced and exciting. A job in telecoms could be anything from a satellite engineer who plans and design telecoms infrastructure in space, to a design engineer running the television and internet coverage for major sporting events or a telecom leader planning how high streets and shopping centres function.” www.farrpoint.com Deep Green and Civo form exclusive partnership Deep Green, a carbon-neutral compute pioneer, has appointed pure-play cloud native services provider Civo as its exclusive cloud partner, giving Civo customers the opportunity to run their cloud workloads on Deep Green’s servers. By immersing its small-edge data centres, or ‘digital boilers’, in mineral oil, Deep Green is able to capture 90% of the heat produced by servers. This is passed through a heat exchanger to heat water for organisations that require significant amounts of heat, such as swimming pools, food manufacturers and textile firms. With this partnership, Civo customers benefit from a groundbreaking sustainable cloud solution that can help them move to a net-zero future, and Deep Green benefits from a constant workload to generate zero carbon heat to power its community-based projects. Mark Bjornsgaard, Founder of Deep Green, said: “Energy is expensive, and precious. So many organisations and communities struggle to afford the heat they need to exist. Yet so much energy, so much heat, is wasted every day by data centres. That’s what Deep Green is fixing and in the process dramatically reducing overall carbon emissions. We’re excited to have Civo’s customers join us on the journey. For too long, compute infrastructure has contributed to the problem of climate change. Now it can be part of the solution.” www.deepgreen.energy
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