Nasuni acquired DBM Cloud Systems

Nasuni, a leader in cloud-based global file services, has made a significant step with the acquisition of DBM Cloud Systems. This move justifies the new investment round of $60 million announced in March. DBM Cloud Systems is a very small company founded in 2015 with very limited VC money and very small revenue.

Beyond that, DBM has developed some interesting data movement services and features represented by AIRE for Advanced Intelligent Replication Engine. The idea is to offer a flexible data copy mechanism across hybrid and multi-clouds. AIRE is interesting by the delta technology it uses to identify object candidates to copy and by the synchronization technique. It can be used to address secondary storage need such data tiering, archiving, business continuity and disaster recovery aligned with new laws and regulations.

We'll see how Nasuni will use DBM as it is not so clear, we'll ask the team during the coming IT Press Tour early June. Also, we see a trend on the market to protect public cloud storage which seems a bit bizarre as all these services deliver at least 5 or 6 nines of availability and even more around 12 nines for the durability. But the idea to create some dynamic data channels across multiple cloud services makes sense. To conclude, clearly it appears that Nasuni picks DBM for Cloud Data Migration, Intelligent Tiering and Multi-Cloud support improvements. It will also serve to continue the battle against CTera Networks, the other very rich global file services company.