"Backup is one thing, but restore is everything," Hamlin said. That means testing is key to a good SaaS backup strategy. Organizations need to make sure that not only are they backing up cloud data, but they can recover effectively. Data can travel fast through the cloud, within an organization and into others, so it's critical to be careful. Hamlin said he believes that the next major target for ransomware is the cloud. One of the biggest challenges in the SaaS backup market is also one of the biggest challenges in data protection in general: recovering from ransomware. "I still feel like we're in a high-growth, emerging market." "It's definitely an exciting time for cloud-to-cloud backup," Hamlin said. Spanning provides cloud backup and recovery for cloud-native applications Salesforce, Office 365 and G Suite. Organizations are starting to understand that they need SaaS backup, but there is still work to do, Mat Hamlin, vice president of products at Spanning, said in a podcast Q&A with SearchDataBackup. SaaS applications are popular and useful, but they need protection. In the meantime, Voccola is focused on scaling the business both organically and through M&A.As organizations continue to create more data in cloud-native applications, protection of those workloads is increasingly important. Company watchers (myself included) think a company sale to a strategic buyer in the next nine to 18 months or so is more likely. Voccola has floated the idea of Kaseya eventually pursuing an IPO. backup and disaster recovery - on-premises, hybrid and in the cloud.professional services automation (PSA).endpoint management, network monitoring and management (NMM).Remote monitoring and management (RMM).The overall Kaseya product portfolio now spans: October 2018: Spanning for SaaS backup.September 2018: RapidFire Tools for network, security and compliance assessments.May 2018: Unitrends for appliance-based backup and disaster recovery.May 2017: Unigma for cloud cost management.February 2016: Acquiring Vorex for PSA (professional services automation) software.Kaseya’s M&A deals have multiple implications for the company and MSPs - many of whom are seeking to consolidate their IT and business management platforms.įred Voccola, CEO of Kaseya, has overseen multiple M&A deals since joining the company in July 2015. Kaseya Mergers and Acquisitions: MSP Implications In 2017, Spanning backed up more than 110 billion items. The SaaS backup platform is used by roughly 10,000 customers and MSPs - though exact MSP figures are undisclosed. The company is generating 50 percent year-over-year growth (in terms of revenue, I believe). Spanning’s business apparently has been performing well. Kaseya Cloud Backup, which is powered by Acronis.Unitrends for appliance-based business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR).Spanning is now part of the larger Kaseya data protection portfolio - which also features: And Continuum previewed various cloud backup capabilities at the company’s Navigate 2018 conference last week in Boston. Note: Several other backup providers also have data protection capabilities for the major SaaS productivity platforms.OwnBackup (led by former Intronis CEO Sam Gutmann) and.Datto SaaS Protection (formerly Backupify). ![]() And then Dell EMC sold Spanning to Insight Venture Partners in 2017. Spanning Cloud Apps, founded in 2010, has had multiple owners. Kaseya Acquires Spanning: MSP Implications And it sounds like Unitrends and Spanning also are gaining some integrations. The earlier deal involved Unitrends, a hybrid cloud backup and disaster recovery specialist. This is the second time in recent months that Insight has combined another of its existing portfolio companies with Kaseya. The two software companies have since been held in separate Insight investment funds, but now Spanning moves under the Kaseya umbrella, within the Insight fund that manages Kaseya. Insight Venture Partners acquired Spanning in 2017 and Kaseya in 2013. Private Equity Parent: The dance between Kaseya and Spanning isn’t surprising, considering they have had the same private equity owner for more than a year. The goal: Balance the best of Spanning’s entrepreneurial expertise, while providing the technology in an integrated way to the entire Kaseya customer base, according to CEO Fred Voccola. The SaaS backup provider will operate as a stand-alone, independent business-unit under Kaseya. Spanning’s headquarters will remain in Austin, Texas. An emerging relationship surfaced in April 2018, when Kaseya VSA gained tight integrations with Spanning. It sounds like Kaseya has actually owned the business since early 2018, but a formal announcement didn’t arrive until now. ChannelE2E in September 2018 speculated that Kaseya would acquire Spanning ( second to last paragraph here).
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