NEW YORK, July 28, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GBS Enterprises Incorporated
(OTCBB:GBSX), a global software and services company specializing in cloud
automation, application modernization, and messaging security and compliance,
announced today that it has acquired IDC Global Networks, a privately held
company that provides network and data center services in the U.S. and UK. IDC
delivers customized, high availability technology solutions for co-location,
hosting, managed services, network security, WAN, and wireless services.
IDC Global Networks, with its principal data centers in Chicago, New York and
London, helps customers make the transition from large, costly on-premise
computing centers to dynamic, flexible and cost-effective off-premise computing
solutions. The acquisition of IDC Global Networks provides GBS with the
infrastructure needed to provide a comprehensive end-to-end solution for all
customers regardless of their platforms.
The acquisition of IDC provides an excellent platform for GBS to extend and
scale its cloud automation offerings marketed under the label "GROUP Live",
(which help software vendors and corporate customers to cloud-enable their
solutions and/or client applications regardless of the platform they were
developed on), by providing leading data center expertise, knowledge, and
capabilities. The IDC acquisition also enables GROUP Live to extend its offering
into the areas of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) as well as
hosting/out-sourcing capabilities for its customer base.
GBS is now able to provide its IBM Lotus Software customers a turn-key solution
for their entire Lotus Notes/Domino environment: from system performance
enhancements, to modernizing the Domino apps, and finally to a complete hosted
or remote managed Lotus infrastructure.
GBS's CEO, Joerg Ott, noted, "IDC Global is a perfect fit for us. It provides
our customers the best choices in managed, hosting and cloud computing services,
new revenue streams for our stakeholders and allows us to extend beyond Lotus."
GBS will now have cutting edge data center expertise and knowledge to deliver
customized solutions in the cloud to meet today's IT department challenges for
reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Customers and partners can easily
expand their IT infrastructure into the cloud to rapidly enhance IT department
resource demands without the need to dedicate hardware on-site for temporary or
intermittent processing jobs.
"Being a very customer-centric company, we always have to understand our
customers' business and challenges in order to provide our best council and
guidance," says Jan Daiker, Founder and President of IDC Global. "GBS has the
same philosophy and focus on their customers' needs; so it was a natural fit for
how we do business."
About GBS Enterprises Incorporated
GBS Enterprises Incorporated (OTCBB:GBSX) is the 50.1% parent company of Group
Business Software (GBS), a global software and services company specializing in
cloud automation. The company serves to: automate business processes; optimize
system & application performance; ensure messaging security & compliance;
modernize server-based applications to Web 2.0; and simplify application
development & delivery.