Data center partner DC BLOX has acquired Ploid, an associated company with Huntsville’s HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.

The acquisition was announced last week but terms were not disclosed.

Atlanta-based DC BLOX last year opened a $13 million data center in Huntsville and announced a flagship data center to be built on the former Trinity Steel site in Birmingham, a technology and innovation campus projecting a possible investment of $785 million over 10 years.

Ploid specializes in massive scale hybrid cloud data storage services. Peyton McNully, the co-founder and CEO of Ploid, will be joining DC BLOX as its chief cloud architect.

Chris Gatch, DC BLOX’s chief technology officer, said the acquisition helps with the company’s large scale data storage requirements, especially with science and healthcare institutions. Ploid’s storage and data pipeline technology will now be available in all of DC BLOX’s data centers.

HudsonAlpha co-founder and Board President Jim Hudson said Ploid was formed to meet the needs of large genomic datasets.

“This acquisition confirms the importance of robust storage infrastructure for genomics and provides another outstanding entrepreneurial story from HudsonAlpha,” Hudson said.