GFI Software Acquires Partner IASO

GFI Software has made a strategic technology acquisition, purchasing the online backup software company IASO Backup Technology B.V., based in The Netherlands.

Details of the deal are not being disclosed.

IASO provides cloud-based solutions that provide customers with secure and efficient backup and recovery of their critical digital assets across all of the main computing platforms. IASO delivers its software solutions worldwide through a network of more than 600 direct international partners and resellers.

"We have been using IASO’s technology in GFI MAX RemoteManagement for over a year and it has been a great success with our customers. Acquiring IASO’s technology provides us with a huge opportunity to expand this side of our business, target new opportunities in the MSP community and among businesses that want to reduce the technical and logistical overhead of backup and benefit from the fastest cloud based restore available," said Walter Scott, CEO at GFI.

"We are constantly on the lookout for new technologies that will help us solve our customers’ problems and enhance our products. The acquisition of this technology will strengthen our portfolio and allow us to address the rapidly-growing demand for online backup solutions. We believe strongly that best backup practice follows the Disk-to-Disk-to Cloud (D2D2C) or hybrid approach. The unique True Delta and Local Speed Vault technologies developed by IASO enable MSPs and businesses to follow this best practice, benefit from ultra-fast online backups and remain confident that their data is secure and available at the touch of a button, when they need it," Scott added.

Commenting on the acquisition, IASO’s Johan Jongsma said: "We have worked with GFI for over a year now and we are very pleased that GFI has chosen to take our technology forward as its strategic solution for online backup. We see this as recognition of the value we have created so far in the Netherlands and in other regions. GFI has the vision, the ability and the resources to take our unique backup technology to a new level on a global scale."