Kaseya today announced it had made yet another acquisition in the realm of data protection. Spanning Cloud Apps, a provider of backup service for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications will now operate as a business unit of Kaseya. That move comes on the heels of similar acquisitions of Unitrends and RapidFire Tools, both of which now operate as business units of Kaseya.
The goal is to make it simpler for managed service providers (MSPs) to leverage these various offerings within the Kaseya managed service platform without requiring them to necessarily to replace any rival set of technologies they have already implemented on behalf of existing customers, says Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola.
Spanning Cloud Apps adds a SaaS-based approach to data protection to a Kaseya portfolio of offerings that already include server and appliance-based backup and recovery software. Kaseya claims the company’s SaaS application is being used by 10,000 MSPs and is experiencing 50 percent growth year over year. The Spanning Cloud Apps services have been employed to back software over 110 billion times, claims Kaseya.
Following the acquisition of Spanning Cloud Apps, Kaseya also today announced that a new Kaseya Office 365 Backup service based on the technology developed by Spanning Cloud Apps is being made available as a module that can be integrated into the Kaseya remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform.
As reliance on SaaS applications continues to expand rapidly, and many organizations are just now becoming aware they can’t take data protection for granted, says Voccola.
“Turns out you can still lose a lot of data when using SaaS applications,” says Voccola.
Also, Voccola notes that data in the cloud can still be subject to ransomware attacks through which cybercriminals attempt to encrypt customer data.
Most customers that have purchased a SaaS application subscription are going to be predisposed to back up that application using the same type of consumption model.
While most solution providers may not be making a lot of money selling SaaS applications such as Microsoft Office 365, Voccola says that doesn’t mean there are not higher margin opportunities to pursue. The challenge, says Voccola, is finding the most efficient means to deliver those services in a way the end customer wants to consume.
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