Warrendale-based data infrastructure service provider Datastrike has completed its acquisition of database and cloud management provider MiCore Solutions, making the company "the largest managed service provider specializing in data infrastructure services for small- and mid-sized businesses."
With this acquisition, the combined company now services more than 200 clients and thousands of databases, all of which are managed in North America. The company does not manage the data directly, but rather as an infrastructure service provider manages the software that holds the data. Terms of the acquisition deal were not released.
"One of the cute little phrases that I used in the past when we were talking about sovereign data, as part of our clients' data estates, I used to always say 'we're all about the crib, we don't touch the baby,' " CEO Buddy Flerl said.
Flerl previously served as CEO of data service provider RDX, which was based in Warrendale but is now based in Andover, Massachusetts under the name Navisite. After joining Datastrike in 2022, other executives from RDX followed, including COO Rob Brown, who served as RDX's SVP and CMO Kelsic Pross, who served as RDX's director of marketing.
"We grew RDX from about 10 employees to a little over 350 employees and I would say that 80% of them sat here in Pittsburgh" Brown said. "When I was getting out of school, a lot of my friends were leaving for Philly and DC and California because they were following the jobs. Our thought process was basically 'let's keep the kids in Pittsburgh, let's keep these young professionals in Pittsburgh and let's grow them.'"
Brown said that the company is "going to continue to build around Pittsburgh."
"I think that the real message for Pittsburgh is that we're back and we're stronger than ever before," Flerl said. "We're here to take it to an even higher level than before in terms of security, service levels and just dedication and delighting our customers."
As data management needs increase with the growth of the digital world and artificial intelligence models, Brown said that "the opportunities to build and continue to offer services, whether it be on [premises], hybrid or fully in a public cloud, those will only continue to expand."
