Google Acquires Data Migration Startup Alooma to Boost Cloud Services

Google purchases Alooma to simplify enterprise data migration to its cloud platform. The acquisition allows Google to offer a more automated pipeline experience while maintaining support for existing Alooma customers.

19 Feb 2019 • 1 min read

Google announces its intention to acquire Alooma, a platform that helps enterprises combine data sources into services like Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. Alooma handles data pipelines for its users and assists with cloud migration, data cleaning, and preparing information for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications.

Google executives state that this acquisition provides a natural fit for the company's commitment to helping enterprise customers securely migrate data to their platform. The Alooma team plans to join Google in its Tel Aviv and Sunnyvale offices to build a streamlined, automated migration experience for Google Cloud customers.

While existing Alooma customers continue to have access to other cloud providers, the company stops accepting new customers who want to migrate data to competing platforms. Prior to this acquisition, Alooma raises about $15 million from investors, and the specific financial terms of this deal remain undisclosed.

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