Wasabi Technologies is a cloud storage company centered on S3-compatible cloud object storage for organizations that need fast access to large volumes of unstructured data. Its portfolio extends beyond core storage into cyber-resilience, intelligent media storage, government-focused storage, and data movement and management tools.
Wasabi Technologies positions its offerings around predictable cloud storage economics, immediate data accessibility, and strong protection for backup, archive, AI, media, and surveillance workloads. The company supports customers that want to store, protect, move, and actively use data without relying on complex storage tiers, while also providing specialized options for high-performance workloads and regulated environments.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Wasabi Technologies delivers single-tier object storage with security, compliance, and operational controls built around enterprise data protection and accessibility. Its capabilities include immutability, virtual air gapping, multi-user authorization, encryption, role-based access controls, and tools for replication and long-term retention.
The company also emphasizes hybrid and multicloud interoperability. Its services are designed to work with S3-compatible applications and integrate with a broad ecosystem of backup, media, surveillance, and infrastructure partners. For organizations moving or extending data across environments, Wasabi Technologies provides migration tooling, bulk data ingest, and private connectivity options to support cloud transitions, secondary storage strategies, and distributed data access.
Products and Services
- Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage: Flagship S3-compatible cloud object storage service for backup, recovery, active archiving, media workflows, AI data, and general-purpose unstructured data storage with a single-tier model.
- Wasabi Fire: All-flash, NVMe-based S3-compatible object storage built for latency-sensitive workloads such as AI/ML, media processing, analytics, and modern applications.
- Wasabi AiR: Intelligent media storage that combines Wasabi storage with AI-powered metadata auto-tagging, transcription, and searchable indexing for video and media archives.
- Covert Copy: Cyber-resilience feature for creating hidden, immutable copies of data as a virtual air-gap defense against ransomware and malicious deletion.
- Wasabi Account Control Manager: Multi-tenant management platform for automating account provisioning, administration, billing, and sub-account management across MSP, reseller, and distributor environments.
- Wasabi Ball Transfer Appliance: Bulk data transfer appliance for securely moving large datasets into Wasabi cloud storage without relying on internet-based uploads.
- Wasabi Direct Connect: Private high-bandwidth connectivity service for moving data to and from Wasabi over dedicated network links.
- Wasabi Cloud Sync Manager: Cloud migration service for moving object data from hyperscalers, other S3-compatible clouds, or on-premises object storage into Wasabi.
- Wasabi GovCloud: Government-focused object storage offering with S3-compatible access and account management tailored for public sector and regulated use cases.
- Wasabi Object Replication: Replication capability for copying data across Wasabi storage regions to support disaster recovery, compliance, and lower-latency access.
- Wasabi Surveillance Cloud: Hybrid surveillance storage offering that extends on-premises video management systems with cloud capacity for retention and archive use cases.
- Reserved Capacity Storage: Prepaid storage purchasing model that lets customers buy Wasabi capacity in 1-, 3-, or 5-year terms for lower long-term costs and procurement flexibility.
Target Customers
Wasabi Technologies serves enterprise IT teams, infrastructure and storage administrators, backup and recovery teams, and security leaders that need cost-predictable object storage for business-critical data. Its offerings are also aimed at organizations managing large unstructured datasets for media production, content archives, AI pipelines, research, and video surveillance.
The company has a strong fit with channel-driven buyers, including managed service providers, distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEM-oriented partners that need multi-tenant account management and white-label delivery options. Wasabi Technologies also targets budget-conscious and compliance-aware organizations in education, public sector, healthcare, and other data-intensive industries.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS: Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage is AWS S3 and IAM API compatible, and Wasabi provides AWS migration and interoperability workflows including AWS DataSync support and Cloud Sync Manager.
- Microsoft Azure: Wasabi supports Azure-to-Wasabi migration workflows through Wasabi Cloud Sync Manager and documented Azure Blob migration patterns, including backup migration use cases.
- Google Cloud: Wasabi supports Google Cloud data movement through Wasabi Cloud Sync Manager and documented Google Cloud CLI workflows for copying objects from GCP to Wasabi.
Key People
- David Friend: President, CEO & Co-founder
- Jeff Flowers: CTO & Co-founder
- Marty Falaro: EVP & Chief Operating Officer
- Michael Bayer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer
- Jim Donovan: Chief Product Officer
- Michael Welts: EVP & Chief Marketing Officer
- Pramod Kalyanasundaram: EVP, Engineering & Operations
- Jonathan Howes: SVP, Global Sales
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Employees: Approximately 550
- Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
- Parent Company: Wasabi Holding, Inc.
- Subsidiaries: Wasabi Technologies Japan G.K.
- Publicly Listed: No (privately held)
Analyst Recognitions
- IDC: 2021 IDC Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Market Shares, 2020 Report — Company “Who Shaped the Year”.
