{"id":268949,"date":"2018-09-03T08:33:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T06:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=268949"},"modified":"2018-09-03T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T06:33:12","slug":"datatec-acquires-cape-town-based-cloud-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/268949\/datatec-acquires-cape-town-based-cloud-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Datatec acquires Cape Town based cloud business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICT company Datatec, has announced that its subsidiary, Logicalis, has acquired Clarotech, an IP telephony (IPT) cloud and managed services business based in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>Clarotech offers IP telephony and call centre cloud and managed services to SMBs in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s Open Source IPT solution is a unique fit for SMBs and delivered to customers as a managed cloud service, said Datatec.<\/p>\n<p>Vendor partners include Microsoft, VMware and Fortinet. &#8220;With the acquisition, Logicalis will be able to extend its managed services capability with a mature SMB customer base, strong services delivery and sales capabilities to drive scale and relevancy in the region, Datatec said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This acquisition enables Logicalis to combine a focused managed services operation with its existing business in South Africa, to support SMBs as well as larger corporates,&#8221; said Datatec CEO, Jens Montanana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clarotech has been providing first rate solutions and services to its clients and will bring a strong capability to our business and provide the opportunity to upsell an increased portfolio of services to our clients, not just in South Africa but also around the globe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/244553\/datatec-acquires-chilean-ict-group-for-r250-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Datatec acquires Chilean ICT group for R250 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICT company Datatec, has announced that its subsidiary Logicalis, has acquired Clarotech, an IP telephony (IPT) cloud and managed services business based in Cape Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[13321,765,26],"class_list":["post-268949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-clarotech","tag-datatec","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268961,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268949\/revisions\/268961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}