News

New boss at Westcon Security
2010-03-01
United Kingdom : Niall McGrane has been installed as distributor Westcon Security’s new UK general manager following the departure of Axel Lagerborg. Lagerborg only took the reins from long-standing boss Kay Bruen in July, but has decided to leave the UK in March with his family, to pursue a new opportunity in Luxembourg. McGrane was most recently sales manager at distributor CDG UK. He previously held positions at Magirus and Allasso (source : Computer Reseller News United Kingdom).

Tech Data acquires CDG Europe
2010-02-19
After its reorganized by letting its Belgian and British subsidiaries go their own life, thin computing and networking VAD CDG Europe, which is present in Sweden and the Netherlands, has finally been acquired by Tech Data, for an undisclosed amount. After the sale has been finalized - which should be done before the end of March -, CDG assets will be integrated into Tech Data's VAD business Azlan in these two countries. Tech Data thus acquires an expertise in virtualization in these two countries, providing that CDG teams follow their management in this move, and do not leave the company, as this sometimes happened in the past to Tech Data. Another suitor for CDG is tought to be DCC Group, through its French subsidiary Distrilogie.

Expand expands distie community
2009-11-30
United Kingdom : WAN optimisation hotshot Expand Networks has enticed recently-formed Cloud Distribution to join its distie line-up, along with European partner CDG UK and comms specialist Sematron (source : Microscope United Kingdom).

CDG Europe frees its subsidiaries
2009-10-26
Dutch thin computing and networking VAD CDG Europe has decided, on mutual agreement, to give back their freedom to its different foreign offices, through local MBOs. According to Kathleen Claes, manager of the Belgian office, this was decided to help local offices to better focus on their local reseller network, by allowing them to choose more precisely their vendors, strategies and working methods. UK office has become CDG UK, still under Oren Taylor management, and will focus on virtualization and cloud computing with new vendors like Atlantis Computing, Kaviza (also in Benelux) or Neocleus. It has also created the Cloud Group, a new Europe-oriented company which will focus on offering Desktone’s desktop-as-a-service to service providers. Finnish office has renamed itself to DistrIT and focuses on Expand Networks and Quest's vWorkspace. Belgian office, owned by Kathleen Claes and Oren Taylor, has become CDG Belux. It works closely with CDG UK and currently keeps most of CDG Europe virtualization and thin computing offer. It plans to head towards cloud computing in the coming month, by adjusting its catalog and signing new vendors. The company also keeps an eye on French market and is still eager into finding a good manager to cover it more efficiently, as it still works well with a few French resellers, mainly on eEye security solutions. The last office not to have taken its independance is CDG Swedish office, which remains for time being a subsidiary of CDG Europe.

Two new distributors for Kace
2008-11-26
Management UTM vendor Kace has appointed Miel and CDG Europe as official distributors, respectively for France and Ireland and United Kingdom.