



It's an exciting acquisition, said David Levenson, owner of Creative Computer Consulting, a Framingham, Mass.-based managed services provider and Carbonite channel partner.Ĭarbonite has been a great company to work with from a channel perspective, and its acquisition of EVault will make it even stronger, Levenson told CRN. With the deal, Carbonite will get the EVault Cloud Backup and Recovery software-only solution for server backups the EVault Backup and Recovery Appliance, which brings the EVault to an appliance sitting at a customer's site and EVault Cloud Resiliency Services for managing failovers into the cloud. Cloud data protection vendor Carbonite is moving upscale into the midsize business market with an acquisition of the disaster recovery and business continuity business of EVault from Seagate.īoston-based Carbonite, known primarily as a provider of cloud-based data protection services to consumers and small businesses, said Wednesday that it has signed an agreement to purchase most of EVault's operations for $14 million in cash, in a deal expected to close in January.
