CenturyLink announced today that it has acquired DataGardens, a company that offers services to help firms recover from problems that pop up in the cloud. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The DataGardens team will remain in Edmonton, Alberta, but will report to CenturyLink CTO and former Tier 3 CEO Jared Wray, who’s based in the company’s Bellevue, Wash., cloud office.
CenturyLink purchased Tier 3 last year, using the acquisition for its base of expansion into the cloud computing arena.
DataGardens’ tools will be used to offer CenturyLink’s small and medium business customers a way to handle disaster recovery in the cloud. CenturyLink plans to target the services at users who need high uptime but can’t afford higher-cost services. SafeHaven, DataGardens’s flagship product, offers disaster recovery by creating an off-site virtual data center in a public cloud service.
The two companies already had a strong working relationship prior to the acquisition. Earlier this year, the two companies announced SafeHaven for CenturyLink Cloud, a solution that was built for customers of CenturyLink’s services.
