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Mark Schrutt
Director, Services & Enterprise Applications

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Canada Research
Canadian Services Team
Canadian Software Team
Outsourcing

Canadian Impact of Dell Going Private
David Senf, Dave Pearson, Mark Schrutt, Tarun Bhasin, Tim Brunt
Feb 2013 - Doc # lcCA23939113      IDC Link
After months of speculation, Dell confirmed in an announcement on February 5th that it intends to make the switch back to a privately held entity. Michael Dell, with partners Silver Lake and Microsoft, has entered into an agreement to acqui ...
Canadian Data Centre Expansion Continues: IBM Builds in Barrie
Mark Schrutt
Sep 2012 - Doc # lcCA23700612      IDC Link
Canada’s newest data centre has emerged about 70 kilometres outside of Toronto in what has historically been some of the country's richest farmland. On September 21, 2012, IBM officially unveiled Barrie, Ontario, as the site of its latest c ...
Bell Moves to Own the Canadian Colocation Market
Mark Schrutt
Jun 2012 - Doc # lcCA23521112      IDC Link
On June 3, BCE Inc. and a group of partners announced the acquisition of Q9 Networks for C$1.1 billion. Bell’s consortium includes Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Providence Equity Partners, and Madison Dearborn Partners LLC. Q9, which runs ...
CGI Acquiring Logica: Will Fortune Favour the Bold (Canadian Company)?
Jim Westcott, Mark Schrutt
Jun 2012 - Doc # lcCA23518812      IDC Link
Canada has a new C$10 billion company and it is Montreal-based CGI Group. On May 31, CGI agreed to acquire Logica for C$2.8 billion. With no breakup fee, the proposed transaction is slated to close this September 2012.From a numbers perspec ...
Renegotiation Activity, 2012: TELUS Wins Big
Mark Schrutt
Feb 2012 - Doc # lcCA23345912      IDC Link
The market for renewals and renegotiations continues to play out in Canadian outsourcing. The first in the series of the more than C$25 billion in contracts coming to term between 2011 and 2013 have followed a consistent and expected patter ...