Nasuni Corporation announced that it has acquired the technology and
products of DBM Cloud Systems, Inc. Founded in 2016 by Dixon Doll, Jr., DBM
delivers cloud-native data migration technology for hybrid and multi-cloud
environments. The acquisition comes on the heels of a $60 million growth equity investment from Sixth Street in
March. Dr. Joseph Slember, formerly DBM's vice president of engineering, has
joined Nasuni as vice president of engineering, leading the data mobility team.
Enterprises are aggressively adopting
cloud-first approaches to data management in order to strengthen cyber
resilience, support hybrid work models and get frictionless scale to meet
business needs. Data migration is an important part of any cloud-first
strategy. Moving data from legacy file storage systems to the cloud and between
clouds has to be frictionless. Since 2021, nearly all companies (93%) have
adopted a multi-cloud strategy, according to Accenture, making high-speed data
mobility between clouds a critical functionality.
With this acquisition, Nasuni will
enhance its data mobility capabilities to provide seamless data migration and
enhanced multi-cloud support for its customers so they can effortlessly move
data from on-premises to the cloud and between different cloud hyperscalers.
The integrated technology will enable Nasuni to enhance its capabilities around
data mobility, including:
- Cloud data
migration: Migrate petabytes of data from on-premises to the
cloud or across public, private or hybrid clouds.
- Intelligent
tiering: Automatically shift data across cloud storage tiers
to optimize costs.
- Enhanced
multi-cloud support: Move and maintain data in close
proximity to desired cloud services and applications for optimal
performance while minimizing security risk through flexible data
portability.
"At DBM, we built technology that
automates data migration and management between clouds while simplifying the
movement of data among them," said Slember. "By combining the technology with
Nasuni's file data services platform, users will gain faster file data
migrations and more intelligent tiering, saving significant time and costs."
"The Nasuni File Data Platform
includes the world's only cloud-native global file system that combines file
and object storage delivering unlimited scale and capacity and we've built
strong partnerships with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud for the
backend object storage," said Paul Flanagan, chief executive officer at Nasuni.
"We are making file data migration, tiering and data movement between clouds a
frictionless service. Today, enterprises do not want to lock in all their data
with a single cloud, but are instead adopting a multi-cloud approach. DBM's
technology and the expertise we've gained will enable Nasuni to accelerate and
innovate our support for data migration, multi-cloud and data mobility."