Continuing a strategy that goes back a few years now, Internet Service Provider EarthLink has announced its intention to acquire 13 year old managed service provider CenterBeam. The total value for the deal was listed as $22 million. CenterBeam, a MSPAlliance member and veteran provider of managed services, delivers remote managed IT services primarily to multi-location mid-sized businesses, and operates a 140-person IT Support Center providing help desk, desktop technical support and application support services.
“The acquisition of CenterBeam will fast-track our IT Services product development by providing us with critical scale and complementary product capabilities geared towards our multi-location business target market,” said EarthLink Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rolla P. Huff. “CenterBeam’s advanced set of products, tools and processes will enable us to quickly bring a robust set of remote managed IT Services and collaboration services to market. Additionally, CenterBeam’s IT Support Center will provide expertise, scale and redundancy to our existing EarthLink TechCare remote help desk.”
The acquisition continues a strategy by EarthLInk to acquire MSPs in order to grow customer foot print, as well as rapidly mature its managed services capabilities. EarthLink has made a number of acquisition over the last few years, including the acquisition of another MSPAlliance member Business Vitals back in 2011.
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