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| May 7, 2025 | The Surge of Innovation: Scotland's Tech Landscape in 2025 | Scotland is a hotbed of innovation. The tech scene is buzzing with energy. From AI advancements to underwater communication, the landscape is evolving rapidly. In April 2025, a wave of investments swept through the region, igniting a spark ... |
| May 5, 2025 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | April 2025 | Welcome to the April 2025 edition of the DIGIT Deal Roundup.
Last month witnessed a flurry of investments, with fresh funding earmarked for everything from the development of complex underwater wireless networks, to a new digital recruitmen... |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Dundee-based Brightsolid Announce Acquisition of IT Firm Synergi | Cloud services company Brightsolid has announced its full acquisition of Gateshead-based IT solutions provider Synergi.
Established over 25 years as part of DC Thomson, Brightsolid is a managed hybrid cloud and cybersecurity services provid... |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Data Storage Corporation’s CloudFirst Subsidiary Enters Strategic Partnership with Brightsolid for Expanded IBM Cloud Solutions in Scotland | MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Data Storage Corporation (Nasdaq: DTST) (“DSC” and the “Company”), a premier provider of diverse business continuity solutions for disaster-recovery, cloud infrastructure, cyber-security, an... |
| Jul 1, 2024 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | June 2024 | Welcome to the June edition of DIGIT Movers and Shakers, 2024!
Every month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem, from recruitment and partnerships to expansions and awards.
Thi... |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Brightsolid Expands to Manchester with New Office | Brightsolid, the Scottish cloud service provider, has expanded into England for the first time with new offices in Manchester.
With more than 25 years as part of DC Thomson, the Dundee media company, Brightsolid has grown to become one of S... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | Brightsolid Bolsters Tech Team With Two Key Appointments | A trusted AWS Partner, Dundee-headquartered Brightsolid designs, builds, and manages secure and scalable cloud environments for its customers.
As the Scots tech firm’s new CTO, Sinclair brings over a decade of technical experience across en... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Movers and Shakers | November 2022 | Welcome to the November 2022 edition of the DIGIT Movers and Shakers column.
This month features another bumper crop of Scottish awards, relocation, partnership, and recruitment news.
Here’s all the latest news in one place.
Recruitment xDe... |
| Feb 11, 2022 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | January 2022 | Funding and Investment
Ant Workshop
Scottish games studio Ant Workshop has secured funding to enable the development of new titles, including one it hopes to bring to market next year.
Chroma Ventures, the investment arm of Dundee-based 4J ... |
| Jan 5, 2022 | IFB Announces New Partnership with Brightsolid and £500k Investment | IFB‘s expansion plans have been accelerated with a £500,000 investment that includes a new partnership with hybrid cloud managed service provider, Brightsolid.
The long-term agreement provides IFB with access to new and considerable data ce... |
| Dec 3, 2020 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | November 2020 | Investment & Funding Mocean Energy
Green energy startup Mocean Energy has secured major new investment to accelerate the development of its wave energy tech.
The Edinburgh-based startup has raised £612,000 of seed funding, as well as £2... |
| Nov 19, 2020 | The Year Ahead | Brightsolid Outlines Technology Predictions for 2021 | Brightsolid, the hybrid cloud managed service provider, has outlined its technology predictions for 2021.
The Dundee-based company predicts that, as a direct result of Covid-19 and the changes it has created within workplaces nationally, te... |
| Oct 14, 2020 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | September 2020 | Funding Bellrock Technology
Scottish data analytics innovator Bellrock Technology has successfully listed for the first time on a public sector framework that has generated more than £6 billion in contracts since 2012.
The Glasgow-based fir... |
| Sep 29, 2020 | Comment | The Importance of Choosing The Right Cloud, Not The Hot One | The ‘one perfect cloud’ is much like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow; no matter how hard you look, you’ll never reach it. It simply doesn’t exist.
Tech companies are often guilty of latching on to the latest developments, includin... |
| Sep 8, 2020 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column: August 2020 | Investment Zumo
Edinburgh cryptocurrency startup, Zumo, had a brilliant August, raising more than £1 million in 48-hours as part of a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs.
The company launched its crowdfunding campaign to highlight the benefits ... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column: July 2020 | Investment
Eos Advisory and Cumulus
July was off to a good start for Eos Advisory, who led a £1.7 million investment round to back Europe’s first oncology drug discovery accelerator, Cumulus Oncology.
The investment round, which was support... |
| May 14, 2020 | Brightsolid Launches Cloud Foundations to Boost AWS Deployment | Brightsolid, the managed hybrid cloud services company, has today launched Cloud Foundations, a new product that will allow organisations to quickly launch secure and compliant AWS clouds, removing the complexities often associated with AWS... |
| Nov 27, 2019 | 9 of the Most Exciting Technology Companies in Dundee | Edinburgh and Glasgow often steal the limelight in the Scottish technology sector, which is understandable; they’re Scotland’s two largest cities.
There’s more to Scottish tech than just the Central Belt, though. Across the country, littere... |
| Sep 2, 2019 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers: August 2019 | Recruitment CENSIS
CENSIS, Scotland’s centre of excellence for sensor and imaging systems and IoT technologies, has appointed knowledge exchange expert Dr Ian Brotherston to its board.
Brotherston joins CENSIS from Innovate UK, where he ser... |
| Feb 27, 2019 | Nearly Three-quarters of Scottish Businesses Have Adopted Cloud Computing | Almost three-quarters (71%) of businesses across Scotland have adopted cloud computing, with 43% of firms considering their cloud journey as ‘mature’ or ‘mainstream’, according to research from Brightsolid.
The Scottish colocation and cloud... |
| Feb 6, 2019 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers January 2019 | Recruitment Brightsolid
Brightsolid, the Scottish colocation and cloud solutions company, kick-started 2019 with a double appointment announcement.
Elaine Maddison joined the firm as Chief Executive while Bryan Lambe joined Brightsolid as C... |
| Dec 21, 2018 | What Should the C-Suite Ask Santa for This Christmas? | Have you been naughty or nice in 2018? Well, it’s that time of year when the Big Yin has finished checking his list (and, of course, checking it twice). Assuming your not destined to be greeted by a lump of coal under your Christmas tree on... |
| Nov 5, 2018 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers October 2018 | Recruitment Global Surface Intelligence
Global Surface Intelligence (GSI) has made two senior appointments to strengthen its leadership team to support its planned growth over the next two years.
The Scottish-based geospatial analytics firm... |
| Sep 5, 2018 | DIGIT Deal Roundup – August 2018 | Funding DataVita
Datacentre and cloud services provider, DataVita, has landed £4.6 million in funding from long-term banking partner Santander Corporate & Commercial. The cash injection is expected to lead to the creation of up to 50 ne... |
| Aug 14, 2018 | Brightsolid Announces New Contract with Improvement Services | The new contract will see Brightsolid, Scotland’s only dedicated co-location and managed cloud solutions company, support and facilitate the migration of services operated and managed by the Improvement Service – the national improvement se... |
| Jul 3, 2018 | Scottish Companies Gain G-Cloud Approval | A flurry of Scottish companies have been named on the UK Government’s G-Cloud 10 framework contract – delivered by the Government Digital Service. The framework is designed to promote and encourage the uptake of cloud services across the UK... |
| Jul 2, 2018 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers JUNE 2018 | Recruitment Sopra Steria
Sopra Steria Scotland has announced that its Scottish regional director Alison McLaughlin is being seconded to the Scottish government to help realise its digital transformation ambitions.
Stepping up to take the re... |
| May 30, 2018 | DIGIT Deal Roundup: May 2018 | Make it Social
Continuing to build on its whirlwind success, Edinburgh start-up Make it Social is branching out into sporting events. This latest endeavour by the start-up founded by Eddie Robb will see Gloucestershire County Cricket Club s... |
| May 3, 2018 | DIGIT: Movers and Shakers April 2018 | Appointments Commsworld
Joining the firm’s board are two business heavy-weights Steve Langmead and John Bennett, who will both take outward-looking roles to help the business achieve the next stage of its growth. Langmead, the former Senior... |
| Jun 30, 2017 | DIGIT Movers & Shakers: June 2017 | NEW HIRES ZoneFox
ZoneFox has hired three new senior staff:
Neill Cooper, formerly of Vormetric becomes the Chief Commercial Officer
Ian Thornton-Trump, formerly of Solar Winds becomes Head of Security
Miles Gould, formerly of Red Hat, beco... |
| Jun 26, 2017 | DIGIT LEADERS: Scotland’s Data Centre Landscape | DIGIT: What drives the Scottish data centre industry?
Kenny Lowe (Head of Emerging Technology at Brightsolid): At a micro-level, it varies from region to region and city to city. If you take Aberdeen for example, a major driver there is cos... |
| Mar 26, 2012 | Night Of The Living Social Network: Friends Reunited Relaunches Tomorrow As A Digital Scrapbook | Friends Reunited — which once laid claim to being the UK’s first social network before falling far behind the Facebook juggernaut — is relaunching this week as a “digital scrapbook” where users can collect their own pictures along with copy... |
| May 19, 2010 | British Library and brightsolid partnership to digitise up to 40 million pages of historic newspapers | Mass digitisation to make millions of newspaper pages available online and in the Library’s reading rooms
Innovative deal will help safeguard the future of the world’s greatest newspaper archive
The British Library’s Chief Executive, Dame L... |
