Google acquires backup and disaster recovery company Actifio

Google has acquired Actifio, a leader in backup and disaster recovery (DR). This planned acquisition further demonstrates Google Cloud’s commitment to helping enterprises protect workloads on-premises and in the cloud. 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.  

Actifio’s services include:

• Increase business availability by simplifying and accelerating backup and DR at scale, across cloud-native, and hybrid environments. 
• Automatically back up and protect a variety of workloads, including enterprise databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, as well as virtual machines (VMs) in VMware, Hyper-V, physical servers, and Google Compute Engine.
• Bring significant efficiencies to data storage, transfer, and recovery. 
• Accelerate application development and reduce DevOps cycles with test data management tools.