Thought Leadership
The provider of automated endpoint management NinjaOne wants to expand its portfolio in the area of data backup. As the company announced, the Australian cloud backup specialist Dropsuite is to be acquired for around 252 million US dollars.
The acquisition, which is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025, is still subject to the approval of Dropsuite shareholders and the Australian regulatory authorities. The acquisition is NinjaOne’s response to the growing importance of SaaS applications in companies and the associated security risks.
Protection for the hybrid working world
According to a Gartner forecast cited by NinjaOne, around 75 percent of companies will classify the backup of SaaS applications as a critical requirement by 2028 – compared to only 15 percent in 2024. This goes hand in hand with the increasing use of different end devices: seven out of ten employees use four or more devices at work every day.
The integration of Dropsuite’s backup solutions into the NinjaOne platform will provide companies with comprehensive data protection for both SaaS applications and physical end devices. The focus is particularly on:
- Automated recovery of files, emails and calendars
- Native support for multi-tenant environments
- Simplified search in historical databases
Strategic realignment
“We are seeing the concept of an ‘endpoint’ evolve from a device to a user in real time,” explains Sal Sferlazza, CEO and co-founder of NinjaOne. The acquisition of Dropsuite is a response to this development and the changing customer expectations in times of BYOD and hybrid work.
According to the company, the Dropsuite solution is already used by around 1.5 million users. NinjaOne emphasizes that, despite its fundamental “build before buy” strategy, it found the ideal partner in Dropsuite after careful consideration.
