Earlier this year, vendors serving the MSP market were buying remote monitoring and management (RMM) companies like groceries before a blizzard.
More recently, MSPs have been busy buying other MSPs.
Latest case in point, Rouse Consulting Group (RCG) just bought the MSP division of Earnest & Associates (E&A), which provides services to improve operations.
The deal moves Rouse from a Midwest regional player closer to a national one as it gains a footprint in 10 additional states.
E&A clients will now have RCG managing their service.
“We are providing an enhanced managed services offering that includes a higher level of customer service to E&A's customer base, while they continue to specialize in operational improvements to mid-market companies in the wholesale distribution and manufacturing industries. We are excited about serving new markets and adding staff to support our growth plans,” said Paul Rouse, president of RCG.
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Recently in Canada, TUC picked up the assets that comprise Millennium Care, a service desk firm.
TUC claims to be the biggest MSP in Canada, and is now a tad larger having just added an around the clock service center handling in excess of 30,000 end users, thanks to Millennium.
And the headcount has hit the 150-plus market as well.
These MSPs deals are almost too numerous to count. One recent item – Accumuli snapped up Signify Solutions, a managed provider focused on two-factor authentication (2FA).
Just as this was happening, EarthLink, Inc. announced that it would buy 13-year-old MSP CenterBeam, Inc. for $22 million.
And in recent weeks Kaseya moved into managed Office 365 with the acquisition of Microsoft partner 365 Command. The company’s eponymously named product helps manage Office 365, and like the product it manages, the newly bought Kaseya tool is also hosted in the cloud. This in on the heels of Kaseya buying Zyrion, which has IT service monitoring and cloud services.
Here are some other 2013 deals:
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Infinity Network Solutions bought Giddens Network Services. Infinity is an IT service provider that handles largely SMBs and public sector clients. Giddens, meanwhile, provides network and computing infrastructure for government and commercial markets, seemingly a perfect fit.
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Wordpress MSP Page.ly bought fellow Wordpress MSP BlogDroid.
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OnX Enterprise Solutions bought its way deeper into both the disaster recovery and managed hosting markets by snapping up Worknet, which also has remote monitoring and management (RMM).
Edited by
Alisen Downey
