Business continuity

Ninja Data Protection positions NinjaRMM for MSP software platform wars vs. Barracuda MSP, ConnectWise, Datto, Kaseya and SolarWinds MSP.

OpenText's purchase of Carbonite & Webroot delivers in the SMB (small & midsize business) data protection & cybersecurity markets, CEO Mark Barrenechea says.

Salesforce ($CRM) discontinues data recovery service. Third-party Salesforce cloud backup & disaster recovery (BDR) services such as OwnBackup, Kaseya Spanning & Odaseva are potential winners.

Cloud business continuity provider OwnBackup raises $50 million from Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures & Vertex. Insight also backs Kaseya, Veeam, Spanning Cloud & Unitrends.

VMware acquires Datrium for disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) & HCI. Potential winners include MSPs for VMware Cloud on AWS (Amazon Web Services).

Commvault changes three board seats amid pressure from activist investor Starboard. New operating committee seeks data protection margin improvements. Proxy fight ends.

Carbonite & Webroot hit financial targets in latest quarter. But parent OpenText cuts some staff & temporarily reduces salaries amid economic uncertainty.