Wasabi Technologies, Inc. is an American

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service provider based in Boston, Massachusetts that sells cloud storage. The company was co-founded in September 2015 by David Friend and Jeff Flowers and launched its

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product in May 2017.

History

Friend and Flowers were previously co-founders of Carbonite, an online backup service, among other companies. Friend also previously launched ARP Instruments, Computer Pictures, Pilot Software, and Faxnet. The company was initially called "BlueArchive" at its founding, but was later renamed to "Wasabi Technologies, Inc." after hot

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. Wasabi Technologies, Inc. was launched with a single data center location in

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* {{Official, http://www.wasabi.com Cloud storage File hosting Online backup services Object storage Technology companies based in the Boston area Technology companies established in 2017 Technology companies of the United States