Veeam Software Inc., a company providing backup, disaster recovery and virtualization management services, said today it has acquired N2W Software Inc., which provides a similar set of services specifically for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud platform.

Veeam said bought N2WS for $42.5 million in an all-cash deal. The intention is to strengthen its own portfolio by combining its data protection capabilities in virtual, physical and cloud environments with N2WS’s expertise in AWS deployments.

N2WS will become a “Veeam company” but it will continue to operate independently, maintaining its offices in the U.S., Israel and the U.K. N2WS Chief Executive Officer Jason Judge will continue to lead the firm.

The acquisition is not much of a surprise, as Veeam has enjoyed a close relationship with N2WS for some time. Veeam made a significant investment in N2WS in May last year, when its co-founder and President Ratmir Timashev joined Veeam’s board.

Veeam itself announced a tighter integration with AWS last summer in a move that also involved N2WS. Veeam said the idea behind the integration was to help enterprises move to multicloud or hybrid cloud environments by providing agentless backup and recovery of AWS instances. N2WS contributed its Cloud Protection Manager to the joint solution, which helps enterprises copy data from the AWS cloud to a Veeam-hosted repository, providing a hybrid approach for operational backups and cross-platform disaster recovery services.

Veeam said that N2WS’s workforce, including its sales, marketing and research and development teams, will remain intact. N2WS saw revenue jump by 102 percent in the last year, though it didn’t provide absolute numbers.

“As enterprises look to migrate more workloads to the public cloud, having a robust and intuitive data protection and availability solution is imperative,” Veeam President and co-CEO Peter McKay (pictured) said in a statement.

With the deal done and dusted, Veeam gains access to N2WS’s technology and research operations, allowing it to integrate AWS recovery services into its own platform. Meanwhile, N2WS gets access to Veeam’s virtualization tools and its network of channel partners.

McKay spoke with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio, about Veeam’s business last August at the VMworld conference in Las Vegas:

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