Google to buy cloud backup vendor Actifio

Google Cloud is set to acquire back-up vendor Actifio. Actifio specialises in data virtualisation and gives enterprises the ability to protect virtual copies of their data in its native format. Google VP Brad Calder said: "As organisations across industries sharpen their disaster preparedness strategies and infrastructure resiliency, Actifio's business continuity solutions will help Google Cloud customers prevent data loss and downtime due to external threats, network failures, human er...