ViaWest to acquire Boulder-based AppliedTrust

BOULDER — Information-technology consulting firm AppliedTrust Engineering Inc. in Boulder announced Thursday that it will be acquired by Greenwood Village-based ViaWest Inc.

ViaWest will acquire 100 percent interest in AppliedTrust, but financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

ViaWest, with 400 employees, provides colocation, managed services, cloud computing, and security and compliance services in 28 data centers in Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Minnesota, and Arizona. AppliedTrust provides security, compliance, software development and infrastructure consulting services to a wide range of businesses and government clients.

AppliedTrust, founded in 2001, will become a wholly owned subsidiary of ViaWest and will continue to be…