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Datadobi
TypePrivate
IndustryUnstructured Data Management Software
Founded2010
Founder
  • Ian Leysen
  • Michael Jack
  • Kim Marivoet
  • Ives Aerts
HeadquartersLeuven, Belgium
Key people
  • Ian Leysen, CEO
  • Carl D'Halluin, CTO[1]
  • Michael Jack, CRO
ProductsStorageMAP
Websitedatadobi.com

Datadobi is a privately held global software company that develops tools for managing and moving unstructured data across on-premises and cloud-storage systems. The company is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, and its principal product is StorageMAP, a platform used to scan, analyze, migrate, archive and delete file and object data.[2]

History

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Datadobi was founded in 2010 and is privately held. Its co-founders are Ian Leysen, Kim Marivoet, Ives Aerts and Michael Jack.  

The four founders previously worked at EMC where they were part of the core engineering team that built the Centera platform and its proprietary CAS protocol, following the acquisition of FilePool.[3][4] Centera is seen as the first commercially available object storage platform, released in April 2002.[5] Kim Marivoet is (co-)author on several related EMC patents.[6][7][8]

The company's earlier products included DobiMigrate, software for moving file and object data between storage systems, and DobiProtect, a data-protection product. By 2025, Datadobi marketed StorageMAP as its primary platform for heterogeneous unstructured data management.[9]  

In 2026, CRN included Datadobi in its Big Data 100 list of data-management and integration companies.[10] The company also expanded the use of StorageMAP into Data Access Governance with the platform enhancements announced in September 2026.[11]

Technology

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StorageMAP uses a paralyzed metadata-scanning engine to inventory file and object storage in data centers and public clouds. The platform can apply policy-driven workflows to move data between systems or storage tiers and to archive or deleteselected data. It is designed to operate across products from multiple storage vendors rather than requiring data to be moved into a single vendor's platform.[2]

Version 7.3 of StorageMAP, released in 2025, added scheduled policy workflows, file-level deletion and migration of locked objects between S3-compatible systems while retaining retention dates and legal holds.[12]

The software is used for data migration, storage-tier optimization, governance and preparation of data sets for artificial-intelligence workloads. Blocks & Files distinguishes StorageMAP by its multi-vendor inventory, cleanup and policy capabilities.[2]

Deployments

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In 2026, the University of Manchester selected Datadobi’s platform, StorageMAP, to identify inactive research data for archival as part of its storage-optimization program. The university reported that its research processes generated as much as 15 terabytes of data per day and that its primary network-attached storage was projected to grow from 10 to at least 20 petabytes.[13]

Awards

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Datadobi has earned several industry awards and recognitions, including the following:

  • CRN Magazine Partner Program Guide Inclusion, 2026[14]  
  • CRN Magazine Big Data 100 List for Technology Innovation, 2025[15]
  • TMC Cloud Computing Excellence Award, 2024[16]  

Partners and Alliances

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Datadobi traditionally engages with enterprise customers in collaboration with partner technology and services organizations. Their channel ecosystem includes storage vendors, hyperscalers, value-added resellers, managed service providers, technology distributors, and the like.  

A sampling of current channel partners include, but are not limited to:

Patents

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Datadobi holds a number of patents that support its technology platform StorageMAP, including:

  • Data migration tool with intermediate incremental copies.[25]
  • Multiprotocol Data Migration.[26]
  • Synchronising File System Items Having a Data and Metadata Portion Between a Source Storage System and a Destination Storage System.[27]

References

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  1. ↑ "Carl D'Halluin". Forbes Councils. Retrieved 6 October 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 Mellor, Chris (2025-09-26). "StorageMAP vs SyncEngine: Datadobi explains the difference". blocksandfiles. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  3. 1 2 Mellor, Chris (2020-01-21). "NAS to NAS storage migration is nasty... but there's a better way, claims Datadobi". blocksandfiles. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  4. ↑ "Softwarebedrijf FilePool overgenomen door EMC". De Standaard (in Belgian Dutch). 2001-04-12. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  5. ↑ Kovar, Joseph F. "EMC's New Centera Array Aimed At Storing Content As Objects | CRN". www.crn.com. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  6. ↑ "WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections". patentscope.wipo.int. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  7. ↑ "WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections". patentscope.wipo.int. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  8. ↑ "WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections". patentscope.wipo.int. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  9. ↑ "Datadobi Software Enhancements Power Agile Multi-Cloud Expansion, Flexible Data Reorganization, Lower Costs". Business Wire. 2021 [November 16, 2021].
  10. ↑ Whiting, Rick. "The Coolest Data Management And Integration Tool Companies Of The 2026 Big Data 100". www.crn.com. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  11. ↑ Mellor, Chris (2026-09-24). "Datadobi skewers invalid unstructured data access with a DAGger". blocksandfiles. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  12. ↑ "Datadobi Launches StorageMAP 7.3 - StorageNewsletter". www.storagenewsletter.com. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  13. ↑ "The University of Manchester Picks Datadobi's Unstructured Data Platform to Transform its Storage Optimisation Strategy - StorageNewsletter". www.storagenewsletter.com. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  14. ↑ "2026 Partner Program Guide". www.crn.com. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  15. ↑ Whiting, Rick. "Meeting The Exploding Demand For Data: The 2024 CRN Big Data 100". www.crn.com. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  16. ↑ "TMC Announces Recipients of the 2024 Cloud Computing Excellence Award". cloud-computing.tmcnet.com. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  17. ↑ Blanchard, Sydney (2023-06-13). "Datadobi Brings Unstructured Data Management Solutions to the AWS Marketplace". Database Trends and Applications. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  18. ↑ "Climb to offer Datadobi data services across EMEA". www.iteuropa.com. 2022-04-22. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  19. ↑ Salmon, Kaleah. "Datadobi's triumphant 2023 bolstered by StorageMAP platform success". IT Brief UK. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  20. ↑ "Extended Technologies Complete | Dell USA". Dell. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  21. ↑ Mellor, Chris (2022-12-12). "Azure Storage Mover competes with partners". blocksandfiles. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  22. ↑ "Datadobi Announces Support for File Data Migration and Protection to Microsoft Azure". Archived from the original on 2026-04-17. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  23. ↑ "Welcome to LWC Communities!". partnerconnect.netapp.com. Archived from the original on 2026-07-11. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  24. ↑ "Organizations Can Now Accelerate Journey to the Cloud with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Datadobi's StorageMAP". Archived from the original on 2025-07-22. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  25. ↑ "WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections". patentscope.wipo.int. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  26. ↑ "WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections". patentscope.wipo.int. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
  27. ↑ "WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections". patentscope.wipo.int. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
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