Mergers and Acquisitions, Channel partners, CSPs, Mergers and Acquisitions

CloudCover Acquires IT Support Provider Palotac

concept of global network or digital technology communication, graphic of world map combined with electronic board pattern

CloudCover has acquired network support and hardware support provider Palotac. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

This is technology M&A deal number 645 that ChannelE2E has covered so far in 2022. See more than 1,000 technology M&A deals involving MSPs, MSSPs & IT service providers listed here.

CloudCover Acquires Palotac

CloudCover, founded in 2006, is based in Irvine, California. The company has 38 employees listed on LinkedIn, and CloudCover said it has doubled its headcount over the last two years. CloudCover sells exclusively to the channel and the company’s areas of expertise include hybrid maintenance management, asset management, maintenance portal, contract management, alternative maintenance, renewal management, third party maintenance, budget management, vendor management, contract consolidation, vendor consolidation, managed services, enterprise technology, IT services, warranty management, networking, servers, storage, SaaS, channel and data science.

CloudCover's offerings include a global hybrid maintenance service delivery via an intelligent maintenance management platform that includes a custom-built artificial intelligence-as-a-service (AIaaS). CloudCover’s platform allows channel partners to convert customer maintenance relationships into their own managed service and generate recurring revenue.

Palotac is based in Truckee, California. The company has approximately 1,200 engineers and serves customers in 130 countries for hardware replacement and expert TAC support globally, according to the company.

CloudCover Acquires Palotac: Executive Insight

Dimo Hristov, CTO, Palotac
Dimo Hristov, CTO, Palotac

Jeff Huggins, CloudCover CEO and president, said of the acquisition:

“Our job is to anticipate our customers’ needs. For the last few years that has meant building up our services, sales, and marketing headcount. At the same time our AI has been growing more intelligent and responsive, providing acceleration in our service capabilities. Many providers are offering some sort of management platform, but none are able to do it holistically and at the level our data science and services team is already executing. No matter where your maintenance info lives – OEM, TPM, CloudCover or some combination of all three – CloudCover easily integrates and manages it all accurately. This management is the next evolution in maintenance service delivery. It puts customers who work on our platform in a role of advisor for their end-users. This is the big differentiator and the next evolution of IT maintenance.”

Dimo Hristov, Palotac's chief technology officer, commented:

“Palotac already understood the importance of quickly connecting customers directly to experts in the networking space. This acquisition will expand that experience for our existing customers adding storage, server, and professional service delivery with the benefit of the CloudCover platform’s support and visibility. Palotac’s extensive experience in providing TAC support will perfectly combine with CloudCover’s proprietary platform and AI services to fill every support need. We’re very excited to be joining the CloudCover team.”

Sharon Florentine

Sharon is a master technology storyteller and editor with omnichannel experience: books and print magazines, digital, webcast, blogging, podcast, live events and video and associated brand-specific social media content. From 1999 to 2003, she acquired and edited technology books and certification exam prep guides.

After a year spent in publicity and editorial at mass-market book publishers, she returned to tech publishing and, since 2004, explored B2C and B2B news, issues and trends in consumer, lifestyle, software, software development, AI, ML, networks, big data, hardware, security, storage, cloud, equity, inclusion, diversity, women in tech, career development, IT management, H-1B visa issues and immigration, education, training and learning.

Her previous role was as the managing editor at Techstrong Group in charge of Cloud Native Now, DevOps.com, Security Boulevard and Techstrong ITSM and their brand-specific social media. She currently serves as editorial director for CyberRisk Alliance’s channel brands, ChannelE2E and MSSP Alert and acting editorial director for SC Media UK. Drop me a note and let’s talk!

You can skip this ad in 5 seconds