GFI Software Acquires IASO Aiding Global Expansion

Netherlands-based cloud services company IASO has been acquired by GFI Software. For more than a year, IASO has been a part of GFI's MAX RemoteManagement solution. It is unclear what the exact details of the acquisition are, but it is likely that IASO technology's global presence is set to broaden as a result of the recent move.

The CEO at GFI Software, Walter Scott, commented on IASO's former work with his company, stating: "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."

Scott added: "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."

Johan Jongsma of IASO also commented on the acquisition, stating: "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."

Over 600 direct international partners and resellers are serviced by IASO presently. The company's solutions are driven towards a hybrid approach to backup and, in particular, it is expected that GFI will make use of their Local Speed Vault and True Delta technologies. (CY) Link. Link.