Investcorp’s Calligo acquires UK managed services firm

  • Date: 14-Jan-2021
  • Source: Emirates Business
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:Bahrain
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Investcorp’s Calligo acquires UK managed services firm

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Investcorp, a Bahrain-based asset manager that counts Mubadala Investment Company as its biggest shareholder, announced on Wednesday that its portfolio company, Calligo Holdings Limited, an end-to-end managed data services provider, has acquired Network Integrity Services (NIS). Network Integrity Services is a UK-based IT managed services and technology-led solutions provider with locations in Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester and Hemel Hempstead. Jersey-headquartered, Calligo was established in 2012 and puts data and its privacy at the heart of a collection of managed data services for companies that optimise and protect data at every point of its journey through the organisation. These include privacy- and security-centric IT managed services; the world's first public cloud platform to have been designed with privacy at its heart; sophisticated data privacy adherence services; and enterprise-level, 'privacy by design' machine learning services and tools. Calligo's acquisition of NIS represents its ninth in three years and fourth in 2020, reflecting the company's ongoing commitment to develop its expertise within the dynamic managed data services market. The addition of NIS is firmly part of Calligo's ambitions to enhance its local presence throughout the UK whilst also strengthening the skills and capabilities that can be made