{"id":88,"date":"2011-07-21T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/?p=88"},"modified":"2023-10-03T06:44:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T06:44:19","slug":"dimension-data-names-ceo-for-cloud-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/2011\/07\/21\/dimension-data-names-ceo-for-cloud-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimension Data Names CEO for Cloud Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dimension Data today named <a title=\"Stephen Nola\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/331252-Stephen-Nola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Nola<\/a>, CEO of Dimension Data in Australia since 2001, as CEO of its newly-formed Cloud Solutions business unit.\u00a0 This follows the announcement last month that Dimension Data had acquired the Santa-Clara based enterprise cloud company, OpSource.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/files\/2011\/07\/Steve_Nola.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94\" title=\"Steve_Nola\" src=\"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/files\/2011\/07\/Steve_Nola.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Nola\" width=\"142\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Nola<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Commenting on Nola\u2019s appointment, Brett Dawson Dimension Data\u2019s Group CEO said, \u201cSteve has been nominated to accelerate the Group\u2019s cloud strategy based on his strong 22-year track record with Dimension Data as an executive and a leader with proven execution skills, and ability to drive value. Under Steve\u2019s leadership, the Australian business has grown from revenues of US$365 million in 2002 to over US$1 billion today.<\/p>\n<p>Steve has also successfully transformed the Australian business from a reseller into an IT outsourcing and managed services focused business.\u00a0 In addition, his experience with cloud architecture, telecommunications, services, and IT outsourcing stands him in good stead to establish and grow Dimension Data\u2019s global Cloud Solutions business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Added Nola: \u201cI am excited about my new role leading the Group\u2019s cloud initiatives. We\u2019ve already seen success in the Australian market on this front through our cloud asset, BlueFire. Our clients are increasingly expressing more and more interest in starting their own journey to cloud services.\u00a0 As a Group, we believe the time is right to place greater focus on this fast-developing space, and significantly increase our offerings and activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nola will also continue to retain executive oversight for Dimension Data\u2019s businesses in the Australian region.<\/p>\n<p>Rodd Cunico, Dimension Data\u2019s Southern Region Manager for the past decade, succeeds Nola as CEO Dimension Data Australia, with specific responsibility for Dimension Data\u2019s Systems Integration business within the region.\u00a0 Nola and Cunico assume their new responsibilities with immediate effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimension Data today named Steve Nola, CEO of Dimension Data in Australia since 2001, as CEO of its newly-formed Cloud Solutions business unit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/dimensiondata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}