Google acquires Alooma to simplify cloud migration and take on Amazon and Microsoft

Google announced today it’s acquiring cloud migration startup Alooma to help organizations simplify the migration of mission critical systems data across multiple cloud environments. The company made the announcement in a blog post by Amit Ganesh, Vice President, Google Cloud Engineering and Dominic Preuss Director, Product Management, Google Cloud Platform. The acquisition will also help Google to take on Amazon and Microsoft. The total amount of the deal is yet to be disclosed. Alooma is a cloud service that brings all data sources together into BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, and more.

Founded in 2013 by Rami Amar, Yair Weinberger, and Yoni Broyde, Alooma is a real-time data pipeline as a service that allows the integration of any data source like databases, applications, and any API. Alooma has raised about $15 million from investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequioa Capital Israel, according to publicly available funding data. Alooma allows users to build data pipelines in minutes. Alooma lets users Integrate all your data sources to Amazon’s petabyte scale data warehouse. With Alooma, users can stream their data to Redshift tables to derive real-time insights. Alooma allows users to import data from any source. Alooma natively supports dozens of the most popular data sources.

“As organizations modernize their infrastructure to digitally transform themselves, migrating mission critical systems and the data that powers their business success can be daunting. No matter where your data is stored—on premises, in our cloud, or multiple clouds—we want to make that information accessible, valuable, and actionable.
That’s why today we’re announcing our intent to acquire Alooma, a leader in data migration. Alooma helps enterprise companies streamline database migration in the cloud with an innovative data pipeline tool that enables them to move their data from multiple sources to a single data warehouse,” Google said in a blog post.

Alooma allows users to build data pipelines in minutes. Alooma lets users Integrate all your data sources to Amazon’s petabyte scale data warehouse. With Alooma, users can stream their data to Redshift tables to derive real-time insights. Alooma allows users to import data from any source. Alooma natively supports dozens of the most popular data sources.

In a tweet, Alooma said: “We’re excited to announce our intent to acquire data migration leader @aloomainc, expanding our ability to give enterprise customers an easy and secure way to migrate their data to Google Cloud.”

We’re excited to announce our intent to acquire data migration leader @aloomainc, expanding our ability to give enterprise customers an easy and secure way to migrate their data to Google Cloud. Learn more → https://t.co/EogL4pr8z8 pic.twitter.com/lAlKvppoxb

— Google Cloud (@googlecloud) February 19, 2019