Microsoft Cloud Partner M&A: Champion Acquires MessageOps

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Champion Solutions Group, a Boca Raton, Fl.-based virtualization and cloud computing services provider, is building out its Microsoft cloud services through the acquisition of Charlotte, NC-based MessageOps.

MessageOps has focused its core business on being a Microsoft cloud services and utilities company. The acquisition will give Champion Solutions a larger customer base, as well as a broader solutions offering. One of the reasons for the acquisition, according to the cloud services providers, is to provide customers with a migration strategy to Microsoft cloud services, as well as build out its portfolio of cloud management tools…

As the cloud space continues to grow and expand, some cloud services providers have been building out their offerings, as well as acquiring net new customers, by acquiring others with complementary services. This isn’t exactly new. There’s been a lot of merger and acquisition activity in the cloud realm this year as cloud providers and vendors look to capture a bigger slice of the pie and, in a lot of cases, become one-stop cloud shops…

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