It was announced today that Auxilion, the Irish owned IT consulting, implementation and managed services company, is to establish a new networking division in an initial investment valued at €500,000 rising to €1m over the next 24 months. 

The new division will create initially 10 executive jobs and hiring has already commenced for senior networking consultants and engineers to join Auxilion’s existing network team. 

The company estimates that the Irish market for networking is worth approximately €160m. Auxilion’s new networking division is targeting revenues of €6m in the services element of this over the next three years. After establishing in Ireland, the company aims to market the service in the UK where 20% of I.T. Alliance Group 2019 revenues of €35 m were generated. 

The new division, which will focus on Aruba networking solutions, will be backed by Auxilion’s existing managed services team which already globally supports over 300,000 users across public and private sectors. Aruba specialises in new technologies that enable secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud networking solutions that use AI to automate the network. 

Commenting on strategy behind the move, CEO and founder of Auxilion’s parent company, I.T. Alliance Group, Philip Maguire said, "Covid-19 has pressed the accelerator even further on remote working and digital transformation and, despite this week’s further encouraging news on the vaccine front, we strongly believe that the move to a new hybrid workplace will continue post-pandemic." 

Group sales director at Auxilion, Paul Schmitz added, "We researched the global market for the best solution to the new network challenges created by Covid-19 and the hybrid workplace and Aruba, which operates an EMEA R&D centre in Cork, came out on top."

Source: www.businessworld.ie