Acquisition creates new opportunities for our clients, people and partners, combining specialist digital infrastructure expertise with Aureos’s established capabilities across critical national infrastructure.
We’re pleased to announce that WhiteSpider has been acquired by Aureos, marking an exciting new chapter in our growth and creating significant opportunities to expand the services, expertise and capabilities available to our clients and partners.
For more than a decade, we have built our reputation on solving complex technical challenges, honouring its commitments and creating digital infrastructure that enables organisations to move beyond current requirements and unlock new possibilities. During this time, we’ve developed specialist expertise across enterprise networking, AI, cyber security, and cloud technologies, delivering professional and managed services that help organisations across the public and private sectors design, modernise, and operate secure, resilient IT infrastructure.
Joining Aureos marks the next evolution in that journey.
Since 2009, Aureos has built long-standing relationships with many of the UK’s leading national critical infrastructure owners and operators, covering critical assets such as renewable energy, power networks, railways, and highways. Their transformation projects include work with SSEN, Network Rail, HS2, Scottish Power and National Highways.
The combination brings together Aureos’ established critical national infrastructure expertise with WhiteSpider’s specialist IT infrastructure capabilities. This creates a more integrated approach across physical infrastructure, operational technology and enterprise IT, helping customers manage increasingly connected environments with greater resilience, visibility and control.
WhiteSpider has built an outstanding business with exceptional technical capability, an innovative culture and a strong reputation amongst its customers and technology partners.
As critical infrastructure becomes increasingly digital and connected, the ability to bring together operational technology, enterprise IT, software and AI will become increasingly important. WhiteSpider adds significant capability in these areas and strengthens our ability to help customers modernise, secure and optimise their infrastructure.
We are delighted to welcome the WhiteSpider team to Aureos and look forward to building on the strong foundations they have created.
Darren James, Chief Executive Officer, Aureos
What this means for our clients, partners and people
Importantly, this strengthens rather than changes what WhiteSpider does well. Our focus remains on understanding our clients’ environments, solving the challenges that matter most and delivering the infrastructure and support they rely on to achieve their wider organisational goals.
For our clients and partners, the acquisition means greater scale, broader capability and access to a more integrated infrastructure proposition, while continuing to benefit from the technical depth, service performance and customer focus they know from WhiteSpider.
It also gives us greater scope to support organisations across increasingly connected physical, operational and digital environments. That includes building on our existing services and capabilities while developing new digital solutions around resilience, cyber security, secure OT and IT convergence, automation, AI and next-generation infrastructure.
The combination also creates new avenues for growth for our people. Access to broader expertise, projects and technologies will support continued development across our engineering and technical teams, while strengthening our ability to innovate and bring new ideas into the services we deliver.
Joining Aureos represents an exciting next stage in WhiteSpider’s development and creates significant opportunities for our people, customers and partners.
We have always focused on combining exceptional technical expertise with innovation to help our customers solve complex infrastructure challenges and continually improve the performance of their technology environments. Aureos shares that commitment to technical excellence, innovation and long-term customer value. Bringing together their extensive experience of critical infrastructure with WhiteSpider’s digital infrastructure, software and managed services capabilities creates a highly complementary proposition.
Importantly, this allows us to accelerate our ambitions while retaining the expertise, culture and customer focus that have made WhiteSpider successful. We are extremely excited about what the combination of the two businesses can achieve.
Phil Lees, Managing Director, WhiteSpider
A stronger, more connected proposition
As physical infrastructure, operational technology and enterprise IT become increasingly connected, organisations need partners that understand how these environments work together and how to optimise them for greater resilience, security and performance.
Together, Aureos and WhiteSpider can support customers throughout the entire infrastructure lifecycle, from physical and operational environments through to the digital infrastructure, systems and services that connect them; bringing engineering, digital and software capabilities together through a stronger, more integrated proposition.
For WhiteSpider, we’re looking forward to this next chapter and to the opportunities it creates for our clients, partners and people. If you have any questions or would like to understand more about what the acquisition means for your organisation, please get in touch with your WhiteSpider contact or reach out to our team.