Nasuni, a Boston-based company that sells a file data platform to large enterprises, announced on 27 August 2026 that it had acquired DryvIQ, a developer of software that finds, classifies and governs unstructured content. The companies did not disclose the price or any other financial terms.
DryvIQ's discovery, classification, sensitive-data detection and policy-driven governance tools are being added to the Nasuni File Data Platform. Nasuni said customers would be able to use them not only on data stored in Nasuni but across more than 40 cloud and on-premises repositories.
DryvIQ is available to use immediately, according to the announcement, and Nasuni plans to integrate it more deeply into its platform over the coming months. The press release did not say how many DryvIQ employees would join Nasuni or whether existing DryvIQ contracts would change.
What DryvIQ built
DryvIQ began life as SkySync, a back-end application for moving content between storage platforms. It was released in 2013 by Portal Architects, a company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, after the team dropped a desktop application it had worked on for about 18 months. Between 2014 and 2015 the company formed partnerships with storage and content vendors including Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, and Gartner named SkySync a Cool Vendor in content management in 2015.
In 2022 SkySync changed its name to DryvIQ. The rebrand marked a move beyond migration and synchronisation into governance of content over its whole lifecycle, including preparing files for AI tools such as Microsoft 365 Copilot. The company was granted several US patents between 2022 and 2025 covering automated discovery, classification and governance of digital content, including machine-learning methods that classify files using their metadata.
Its current models scan file content in more than 550 formats, recognise over 100 entities and over 1,000 business document types, and detect personal, health and payment card data in more than 175 languages. Policy rules can quarantine high-risk files, apply retention and sensitivity labels, fix permissions and support defensible deletion, and can be mapped to frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA and PCI-DSS. DryvIQ said it was used by more than 1,100 organisations worldwide, including Fortune 1000 companies.
“Organizations are increasingly focused on turning unstructured data into a strategic asset, but content is scattered across dozens of repositories, and most of it has never been classified.”
Why Nasuni is buying
Nasuni sells cloud-based file storage that combines object storage with enterprise file services such as permissions, versioning and a global namespace. It says more than 1,300 enterprises use its platform.
The company presented the purchase as the third step this year in building a single platform for managing, protecting and making file data available to AI. In April 2026 it announced the acquisition of Resilio, which added file synchronisation and edge acceleration. It also launched AI Activate, a product for permission-aware AI access to files. DryvIQ adds the content-level understanding of what each file contains.
Nick Burling, Nasuni's chief product officer, said customers had asked for help with data strategies that allow safe AI access while infrastructure costs rise, and that many had spent years trying to combine products from several vendors. Nasuni argued that classifying content and checking it for sensitive data before it reaches AI systems lets companies use their files for AI with less risk.
From partner to owner
The two companies were not strangers. According to ITPro, Nasuni and DryvIQ began a partnership in February 2026, about six months before the acquisition was announced.
Mark Brazeau, DryvIQ's founder and chief strategy officer, said most enterprise content sits in dozens of repositories and has never been classified. He said joining Nasuni would let DryvIQ bring its intelligence and governance tools directly into a cloud-native file platform, giving customers one governed base for classifying, protecting and using data wherever it is stored.
Neither company said whether Brazeau or other DryvIQ executives would take roles at Nasuni, and no headcount for DryvIQ was reported.
What happens to customers
Nasuni said DryvIQ could be used straight away and that the integration with Nasuni's file platform would deepen over the coming months. Because DryvIQ already works with more than 40 repositories, Nasuni said its customers would get visibility and control over unstructured data stored outside Nasuni as well as inside it.
The announcement did not describe any change in pricing, support or licensing for existing DryvIQ customers, and it did not say whether DryvIQ would continue to be sold as a separate product.
