Google checks of check in the biggest purchase of its history: pays 32,000 million per wiz

With its coffers full to the flag, Google can afford to embark on expensive “shopping” sessions that are normally vetoed for companies with less sanitized accounts. The financial giant has presumed financial muscle in which the Vitola has to be the greatest acquisition of its history. Google announced yesterday that it had signed a definitive agreement to buy for 32,000 million dollars the Israeli startup specialized in Wiz cybersecurity.

Wiz’s is the biggest purchase ever made by Googlewhose greatest acquisition to date had been Motorola Mobility, a company for which Alphabet’s subsidiary paid $ 12.5 billion in 2011.

«We are excited to give our clients, together with Wiz, A comprehensive security platform which will protect modern technological environments, ”says Google.

Wiz will be imbricated in Google Cloud infrastructurethe cloud computing division of the Mountain View company, to give rise to a “multicloud” security infrastructure that will include a unified new generation security platform that will amalgamate the Wiz cloud security platform and Google’s security operations.

«This acquisition represents an investment by Google Cloud for Accelerate two upward trends in the AI ​​era: the improvement of cloud security and the use of multiple clouds (multicloud)«, Explains Google In a press release.

Wiz’s purchase by Google could lead to a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the technology industry

The new platform on which Google is working after the acquisition of Wiz will also incorporate technology from the Mandiant cybersecurity consultantthat the American multinational bought in 2022 for 5.4 billion dollars.

After its acquisition by Google, Wiz products will continue to be available in most cloud computing servicesincluding Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud.

It is not the first time that Google courtes Wiz. The company led by Lallendo Pichai was already involved in conversations to put the glove to WIZ for 23,000 million dollars in July 2024, but the Israeli startup rejected Google’s offer and preferred to continue working on its debut in the stock market parqués (something that finally did not end up producing).

Wiz left the shell in 2020 and was founded by Assaf Rappaportwhich has so far been CEO of the company, Yinon Costica, Roy Reznik Y Ami Luttwak. The Israeli company ufana of being the startup that grows faster worldwide, protecting themselves in the data (in no way trivial) that their recurring income reached 100 million dollars after just 18 months active.

Before embarking at the launch of Wiz, Rappaport, Reznik and Luttwak have already sold a cloud security startup, Adallomthat Microsoft Aquiró in 2015 for 320 million dollars.

According to analysts, The purchase of Wiz by Google could open the spite of a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the technology industry in general and the cloud computing branch in particularespecially when such operations will foreseeably meet with less pitfalls by regulators with the arrival of Donald Trump to the United States government.