Sandford Technology merges with Virtronix

Sandford Technology, a leading web and software development business and the parent company of Leap Frog, has merged with security and virtualisation specialist Virtronix; the deal more than doubles the size of the business and services offered.

Virtronix provides a range of services including security consultancy, remote management of firewalls, VPNs, vulnerability and network scanning as well as virtualisation. The company boasts well-known companies such as The British Academy and Camelot amongst its clients. See www.virtronix.co.uk.

Richard Atkinson, Managing Director, Sandford Technology said: "Virtronix has an excellent team of people and a 'can do' attitude to customer service which will be of tremendous benefit to our clients."

He continued: "The merger has strong future strategic implications for us and begins to fulfill our aim of being a next-generation IT services provider. As a combined business we now have an extremely powerful set of products and services to offer ".

"We are in a web-centric world and the pace of change is quickening. Broadband, powerful hosted software applications and the rich functionality of web 2.0 are driving change in the business environment. We are seeing increasing demand for powerful, interactive online business applications and this is symptomatic of the new generation of internet technologies. There is a major trend towards 'web 2.0' portals and internet-hosted business applications such as CRM, document management, workflow and collaboration and we are well set to provide all of this within secure and virtualised infrastructures".

"By the year 2020, in fact well before that in many cases, we expect business to be transformed into a predominantly digital landscape, with enterprises small and large transacting through advanced websites, web services and hosted applications. Clients, prospects, suppliers and other contacts will expect to interact with businesses in new, sophisticated ways. This environment will become the hub of the business and we are well-placed to provide the data security, web applications and support services to deliver this future. We call this our 2020 Vision."