San Mateo, California-based Qualix Group Inc, which makes the QualixHA monitoring, high-availability failover and recovery system, has acquired three-year-old Automated Network Technologies Inc, an Englewood, Colorado-based software development company, on undisclosed terms. Automated’s technology is said to enable users to distribute, migrate and copy files across networks, mirroring data across a wide area network. More specifically, users can define multiple migration levels simultaneously for data archiving and duplication to tape back-ups, optical jukeboxes or RAID devices in real-time. So that, at the end of the day, a virtual back-up can be made of the data, which is spread across the various back-up devices simultaneously. End-users can than access the data as if it were local, when it still resides on the remote back-up device. Privately-held Qualix is five years old and was originally funded by venture capitalists. The acquisition was through a mixture of cash and shares – the company will not say what the split was or how much was involved – and was funded from operations as the company has been cash-positive for some time. QualixHA supports a number of RAID products and is up under IBM Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc Unixes. By the third quarter, Automated’s stuff will be available as an add-on to QualixHA which is shipping now.
