6. Cal Net Technology Group

Company acquired: inhouseIT

Head count: 51-200 employees

Annual revenue: Not disclosed

Purchase price: Not disclosed

Date of announcement: July 29 

Cal Net Technology Group bought a fellow Southern California MSP to boost its scale and grow its portfolio of solutions.

The Chatsworth, Calif.-based company, No. 454 on CRN's Solution Provider 500, said its purchase of Costa Mesa, Calif.-based inhouseIT – Orange County's largest MSP – will provide the company with more depth and breadth of technical expertise.

This is Cal Net's third acquisition in the past two years, as the CRN MSP 150 Elite list member looks to build expertise around everything from managed services and disaster recovery to document management and infrastructure implementation.