Corsica Technologies announced a 105% year-over-year growth in managed services bookings for 2025 and the expansion of its service portfolio following the acquisition of AccountabilIT. The new offerings enhance capabilities in AI-enabled managed IT, cybersecurity, and Microsoft services. Corsica aims to improve infrastructure modernization and security through an integrated managed services model, addressing the growing demand from mid-market and enterprise organizations. The company plans to focus on geographic expansion and new AI-enabled service launches in 2026.
Net at Work, a managed services provider, has expanded its presence in the Midwestern United States by acquiring Network Computer Solutions, a Kansas-based company. The deal reportedly nearly doubles the size of Net at Work’s managed services division, which has been actively growing through multiple acquisitions in recent years, including four in 2025 alone.
Sydney-based Mac Centre has officially spun out its Apple-focused IT managed services arm, Rhubarb IT, led by Chief Executive Danny Moore. This strategic move aims to better differentiate Rhubarb’s managed services from Mac Centre’s traditional hardware and software offerings, which have historically overshadowed its IT services. Danny Moore highlighted the importance of this new identity, stating, “It was time to give it its own identity, its own focus, and unlock some of the opportunity that we were getting overlooked.” Rhubarb IT will primarily target small to medium businesses that utilize Apple technology. The company plans to launch with unique offerings, including a bundled Mac hardware and IT service package on a per-user basis, described as an industry first.
Why do we care?
Most MSPs will copy the surface behavior in these announcements without understanding the underlying bet—and that’s where strategy turns into self-harm.
They’ll chase acquisition targets without fixing delivery consistency. They’ll slap “AI-enabled” on services without defining who’s accountable when automation makes a bad call. Or they’ll keep pretending resale and managed services can peacefully coexist under one incentive model—despite years of evidence to the contrary.
Corsica is betting customers will tolerate transition risk in exchange for fewer vendors—and that its delivery organization can survive the integration strain. Net at Work is betting customers value scale more than differentiation—and that operational consistency beats bespoke service. Rhubarb IT is betting that being overlooked is more dangerous than being smaller—and that focus beats cross-subsidy.
These are incompatible bets. Most MSPs fail not because they choose the wrong one—but because they refuse to choose at all.
If you get this wrong, the consequences are operational, contractual, and financial—and they surface fast. You lose margin because your service model can’t support what you sold. You lose clients because expectations were set by marketing, not operations.
Buyers are more risk-aware, not less. They’re asking who owns the outcome, who carries liability, and who’s actually in control when systems automate decisions.
MSPs that don’t resolve those questions internally will end up answering them the hard way—with churn, write-downs, and reputational damage.