Google set to acquire cloud back-up vendor

Actifio specialises in data virtualisation

Google Cloud is set to acquire back-up vendor Actifio.

Actifio specialises in data virtualisation and gives enterprises the ability to protect virtual copies of their data in its native format.

Google VP Brad Calder said: "As organisations across industries sharpen their disaster preparedness strategies and infrastructure resiliency, Actifio's business continuity solutions will help Google Cloud customers prevent data loss and downtime due to external threats, network failures, human errors and other disruptions.

"We know that customers have many options when it comes to cloud solutions, including backup and DR, and the acquisition of Actifio will help us to better serve enterprises as they deploy and manage business-critical workloads, including in hybrid scenarios.

"In addition, we are committed to supporting our backup and DR technology and channel partner ecosystem, providing customers with a variety of options so they can choose the solution that best fits their needs."

Actifio was founded in 2009 and previously intended to IPO but shelved the plans in 2017.

CEO Ash Ashutosh said: "We're excited to join Google Cloud and build on the success we've had as partners over the past four years.

"Back-up and recovery is essential to enterprise cloud adoption and, together with Google Cloud, we are well-positioned to serve the needs of data-driven customers across industries."