DC BLOX Acquires Nextgen Storage Services Company Ploid
Peyton McNully, founder of Ploid, joins DC BLOX as chief cloud architect.
DC BLOX has announced the acquisition of Ploid, a provider of storage infrastructure as a service for independent research institutions, life sciences, and genomic sequencing organizations. Ploid is a leader in massive scale hybrid cloud data storage services and is a HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology associate company. Peyton McNully, the co-founder and CEO of Ploid, will be joining DC BLOX as its chief cloud architect.
“DC BLOX is excited to welcome the Ploid team. The acquisition of Ploid’s high-performance storage platform and expertise accelerates DC BLOX’s capabilities serving the large-scale data storage requirements of businesses across the Southeast, especially science and healthcare institutions,” says Chris Gatch, chief technology officer, DC BLOX. “This platform greatly reduces the complexities and expense of storing large volumes of data and offers targeted integration with important scientific, health care, and research platforms.”