IBM i Backup Provider Storagepipe Snapped Up By Thrive

June 7, 2023 Alex Woodie

Storagepipe, a Toronto, Ontario-based provider of backup and recovery services for IBM i and other platforms, has been acquired by Thrive, a Massachusetts-based outsourcing company that provides a range of cloud-based IT services.

Storagepipe has been backing up IBM i servers since it was founded back in 2001. Back in 2015, the last time we checked in with them, the company was utilizing an appliance-based approach to backing up IBM i servers, and any other Windows or Linux servers that customers wanted backed up.

The backup would be pushed to the Storagepipe appliance, which would then replicate the backup off-site …