Databarracks gobbles up more cloud services with SecuriData buy

Cloud backup provider acquires another to advance managed services portfolio

Cloud backup services provider Databarracks has bought out SecuriData, a similar provider based in Galashiels, for an undisclosed sum.

Peter Groucutt, managing director of London-based Databarracks, said SecuriData has provided online backup and data recovery (DR) to hundreds of UK businesses since 2004.

"Its customers will now benefit from a move to the UK's most secure hosting facilities in our Tier 4 and PCI DSS-compliant datacentres. They will also be upgraded to receive free 24/7/365 telephone or on-site technical support," Groucutt said.

Simon Zimmo, owner and managing director of SecuriData, said: "In recent years our customers have been coming to us to ask about additional cloud services for DR, email hosting or even to move their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud."

Zimmo said Databarracks, as a much larger company, had been investing heavily in such areas. "So I am very glad that SecuriData's customers will be well catered for, both now and in the future," he added.

Groucutt said that SecuriData's customers had all been informed.

"We are actively seeking businesses to purchase," he added. "Furthermore, we have just been certified to ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 and we are adding lots of new services."

When Databarracks and SecuriData were founded in 2003 and 2004, businesses were all backing up to tape and full DR could take days, he said. "A decade on and there has been a real shift in the technology."