8. Unitas Global

Company acquired: AOS Cloud

Head count: 28 employees

Annual revenue: Not disclosed

Purchase price: Not disclosed

Date of announcement: July 29

Enterprise-facing cloud services provider Unitas Global acquired the cloud services arm of Alexander Open Systems, adding several services to its portfolio and bolstering its engineering capabilities.

The acquisition of Overland Park, Kan.-based AOS Cloud, which brings with it the expertise of operations engineers, is important for the growing Unitas, based in Los Angeles.

Unitas will integrate a number of AOS’ cloud backup and monitoring solutions, bolstering Unitas’ current provisioning and monitoring solutions and its managed hosting and services portfolio.

With the acquisition, Unitas will pick up all 80 AOS Cloud clients in Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and Missouri, more than tripling Unitas' client roster.