The acquisition is expected to complete by the end of Q1 2026 and is part of Vodafone Business’ ambition to speed growth in areas like security, managed services and cloud
Vodafone Group has entered a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Skaylink for €175 million. Skaylink is a full-service cloud, digital transformation and security specialist with offices throughout Germany and across Europe with more than “500 professionals [who] are recognised experts at managing cloud deployments and migrations across Microsoft and Amazon Web Services environments and implementing AI solutions for business customers”.
Skaylink will provide Vodafone’s business and public sector customers with access to an improved suite of digital services and support. The press statement says the transaction “is part of Vodafone Business’ ambition to accelerate growth in key areas such as security, managed services and cloud”.
The transaction is expected to complete by the end of March 2026, subject to the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals.
Resilience is a key requirement
Enterprises’ vulnerability to hyperscale cloud companies’ suffering outages has been underlined twice in the last few days. Yesterday an outage at Microsoft Azure casued websites to go down including those of London’s Heathrow Airport, Costco and Alaska Airlines. It also affected some apps, including Starbucks, Office 365, Minecraft and Xbox Live.
Microsoft blamed an “inadvertent configuration change” for the problems which were all resolved by today.
Last week Amazon Web Services went down, causing global disruption. Messaging apps, streaming services, gaming platforms, and enterprise APIs suddenly stopped responding. The cause lay deep inside Amazon Web Services’ us-east-1 region, where DNS resolution failures affected multiple AWS services including DynamoDB, disrupting thousands of dependent services.
