Avasta, SiteRock Merge; Portera To Be Acquired By Undisclosed Company

Avasta SiteRock

Customers were asking for a broader set of solutions, which brought the companies together, said David Zinman, vice president of marketing for Avasta.

Zinman said the merger expands the new company's capabilities by combining Avasta's automated platform for managing enterprise applications and SiteRock's service quality measures. SiteRock is ISO 9001-certified and Information Technology Infrastructure Library-certified, company officials said.

The new company, called Avasta, has 50 customers and 60 employees and works with about 200 partners including Accenture.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Portera is being acquired this week as well, but a company spokeswoman said the private ASP is not ready to disclose details at this time. Portera is an ASP focused on the professional service automation and government contractors' markets.

Last week USinternetworking merged with Interpath. Bain Capital has a controlling interest in InterPath and owns Usinternetworking.

In January, MSPs SevenSpace and Nuclio merged and received an undisclosed financial investment from Forsythe Technology, a former parent company of Nuclio.

SevenSpace/Nuclio has partnerships with KPMG Consulting, EMC, Hewlett-Packard and XO Communications.

Earlier in January, MSP Response Networks acquired AperServ, and in late December Totality acquired the assets of Breakaway Solutions.