

OpenText's growth-by-acquisition strategy is well known. Muhi Majzoub, executive vice president and chief product officer at OpenText, outlines his company's data security strategy at the 2019 Enfuse conference. The second is their endpoint security, and that's what Webroot brought to Carbonite. The three product areas that they bring to open tech are endpoint backup, which is the actual Carbonite platform.
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they allow OpenText to enter the SMB market, selling to managed service providers that are servicing hundreds and thousands of different professional and small businesses. Carbonite brings to OpenText two very important things and three product areas: The first is they allow OpenText to enter the consumer market. Muhi Majzoub: Prior to doing the due diligence with OpenText, six months or seven months before, they acquired Webroot, which acquired other technologies and companies like BrightCloud Threat Intelligence.

What led to the OpenText Carbonite acquisition? We discussed in detail the OpenText Carbonite acquisition - and what it means for the company and its product roadmap - with an executive close to the deal, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer Muhi Majzoub. Both Carbonite and Guidance provide endpoint security for mobile devices and IoT sensors connecting to the OpenText platform, and avails OpenText's other technologies to new users in fresh markets. The OpenText Carbonite acquisition follows the 2017 acquisition of Guidance Software.
