Actifio

Actifio is a U.S.-origin software company focused on enterprise data management and data protection. Its technology centers on data copies, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery, with the aim of reducing the infrastructure and operational work required to create and maintain separate copies for different applications. Actifio’s software was designed to manage data copies across on-premises data centers, public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid environments, supporting recovery, development and testing, and business continuity use cases. The company was founded in 2009 by Ash Ashutosh. In 2020, Google Cloud announced the acquisition of Actifio, after which the brand and its technology became part of Google Cloud’s broader data protection and data management portfolio. Because publicly available information does not consistently describe the brand’s post-acquisition standalone operations, current leadership, and product status, this entry limits itself to the better-established facts.

Actifio was founded in the United States in 2009, with a focus on enterprise data-copy management and data protection. The company sought to manage backup, replication, and recovery through a unified software platform, allowing protected data to support disaster recovery, business continuity, and development and testing use cases. Compared with deploying separate backup systems for individual applications, Actifio positioned its products around centralized management of data copies across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. It later introduced cloud-oriented data protection services and applied its technology to enterprise backup, recovery, and replication use cases. In 2020, Google Cloud announced its acquisition of Actifio. Following the transaction, Actifio’s technology was incorporated into Google Cloud’s data protection-related products and services. Public information provides limited detail about the brand’s independent operation, complete product history, and organizational changes after the acquisition, so more specific milestones and version history are not included here.

• 2020

  Google Cloud Announces Acquisition of Actifio

  [1]Google Cloud to acquire Actifiocloud.google.com

  Google Cloud announced the acquisition of Actifio to enhance its enterprise data protection and data management product capabilities.

• 2009

  Actifio Founded

  [2]Actifio company informationactifio.com

  Actifio was founded in the United States, beginning development of copy data management and data protection software for enterprises.

Data protection, copy data management, and recovery management software for enterprises and cloud environments.

• Data management and protection software

  Actifio Copy Data Management

  Actifio’s core data management capability for creating, orchestrating, protecting, and recovering enterprise data copies, supporting backup, disaster recovery, and development and testing across on-premises and cloud environments.

• Cloud data protection

  Actifio GO

  Actifio’s cloud-oriented data protection service for enterprise backup and recovery. Its exact current status has changed in the post-acquisition portfolio and is not fully documented in the available public sources.

• 2020

  Acquired by Google CloudM&A

  Background

  Google Cloud wanted to strengthen its enterprise data protection, backup, and data management capabilities.

  Action taken

  Google Cloud announced the acquisition of Actifio and integrated its technology into its cloud product portfolio.

  Aftermath

  Actifio's technology became part of Google Cloud's data protection product capabilities; financial details of the transaction are not listed here.

  Source

• Unconfirmed

  Reported2020.12.03

  Google Cloud acquires Actifio[3]Google Cloud 收购 Actifioarchive.siasat.com

  Google Cloud acquired data management company Actifio for an undisclosed sum.

• 2020.12.03

  Reported2020.12.03

  Google announces planned acquisition of Actifio[4]谷歌宣布计划收购Actifiofinance.sina.com.cn

  Google announced that it would acquire Actifio, a data-management and disaster-recovery provider. The article reports that the transaction terms had not been disclosed and that Actifio would join Google Cloud after completion.

• 2020.12.03

  Reported2020.12.03

  Google Cloud acquisition of Actifio[5]Google Cloud收购Actifiofinance.sina.com.cn

  Google announced its acquisition of Actifio, saying the deal would help it better serve enterprises deploying and managing business-critical workloads.

• 2020.12.02

  Reported2020.12.02

  Google announces acquisition of Actifio[6]Google 宣布收购 Actifiotechcrunch.com

  Google announced that it is acquiring Actifio, which will become part of Google Cloud; the deal terms were not disclosed.

• Unconfirmed

  Reported2020.08.17

  Birlasoft selects Actifio for customer data-management solutions[7]Birlasoft选择Actifio为客户提供数据管理解决方案business-standard.com

  Birlasoft selected Actifio to help its customers with Actifio's multi-cloud copy data management software platform.

• 2020.02.11

  Reported2020.02.11

  Actifio OnVault becomes interoperable with Dell EMC PowerProtect DD appliances[8]Actifio OnVault支持与Dell EMC PowerProtect DD设备互通prnewswire.com

  Actifio announced that its OnVault incremental-forever data capture technology is interoperable with Dell EMC PowerProtect DD appliances, enabling customers to use Actifio software with those appliances for data lifecycle management and access.

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1. 1Google Cloud to acquire Actifiocloud.google.com
2. 2Actifio company informationactifio.com
3. 3Google Cloud 收购 Actifioarchive.siasat.com
4. 4谷歌宣布计划收购Actifiofinance.sina.com.cn
5. 5Google Cloud收购Actifiofinance.sina.com.cn
6. 6Google 宣布收购 Actifiotechcrunch.com
7. 7Birlasoft选择Actifio为客户提供数据管理解决方案business-standard.com
8. 8Actifio OnVault支持与Dell EMC PowerProtect DD设备互通prnewswire.com
9. 9谷歌宣布收购数据管理公司Actifio 加强谷歌云数据保护finance.sina.com.cn
10. 10Actifio Partners with Birlasoft to Provide Next-Generation Infrastructure, Cloud Technology Services to Global Enterprise Customersequitybulls.com