By Rich Ptak
Datto is all about Business
Continuity and Data Recovery (BCDR) for SMB. Their success to date had been
built on their use of a private hybrid, Datto Cloud, for backup/restore,
advanced storage, instant virtualization (locally and remote), screenshot
verification (to remotely verify backup data integrity) and on-prem file
sync-and-share (FSS). All delivered through an international network of
thousands of Managed Service Providers (MSP).
They expect their next big step
forward, Datto Drive, to carry them deeper into the SMB market with in-cloud
FSS and BCDR. Before we provide more details on the product, why should you
want to know those details?
In its introductory year, Datto
is making available:
·
One million Datto Drive accounts for free to:
o
SMB’s (business accounts only, no personal
users)
o
For one year
o
With one terabyte of data storage (all managed
by Datto in the Datto Cloud).
·
After one year, the offering changes to:
o
$10 per month per domain (NOT per user, the price holds no matter how many users)
o
Service delivered through a Datto MSP partner
(which they’ll help you find, if necessary)
o
Premium versions for larger storage volumes and
services are available. Premium services are available (for a fee) during the
first year.
Given that competitors price is
higher on a per user basis, let’s see what Datto functionality includes.
Datto Drive
Datto Drive brings highly affordable sync-and-share and full
backup/restore and disaster recovery for desktop and mobile devices to SMB’s.
They are targeting the less than one third of the SMB market not currently working
with MSPs today, who are sorely in need of comprehensive, enterprise-grade FSS
and BDCR services.
For the price, Datto Drive offers enterprise-grade FSS built on ownCloud open-source technology. They provide the superior security of Datto’s hybrid cloud with advanced capabilities and functionality in permission management, tracking and tracing. There has been no proven data loss since its founding in 2007.
Datto Drive supports virtually every type of file (video, image, audio, text, etc.). File sharing, control and management can be done from any supported device (desktop, deskside, mobile). It permits real-time collaboration for sharing, exchange, editing, etc. across domain users. Sync and share capabilities are already available for most existing operating systems, i.e. iPhone, Android, iPad, Windows, Linux and Mac. The ownCloud technology means that thousands of value-add apps are available. Finally, it also includes backup for Microsoft 365, OneDrive and SharePoint files.
Final Word
There’s a lot more functionality and things to like about Datto Drive
and the rest of the product portfolio. We suggest a visit to Datto.com to see
all that is available. When competitors, such as
Dropbox and box are charging $15/user/month for similar services, this offer appears
to us to be hard to resist. SMB owners should also move quickly to snag one of
the 1 million domain accounts. It’s our opinion that they’ll disappear quickly.
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