Business continuity

Datto shares 2017 milestones, new Autotask innovations and key priorities as the MSP-centric technology company marches toward its DattoCon18 conference.

Acronis backup & disaster recovery (BDR) integrates with Google Cloud Platform, giving partners another data protection option for customer assets.

The folks behind ThinkGard, a top 10 Datto partner focused entirely on data protection, launch PlanITDR (pronounced "Planet DR") to help MSPs create & deliver disaster recovery plans & documentation for end-customers.

Veeam Availability Orchestrator seeks to streamline and automate disaster recovery -- potentially eliminating human error or faulty steps in the process.

Carbonite is acquiring Dell EMC's Mozy cloud backup service for $145.8 million in cash. Carbonite also lined up a $120 million credit facility for additional acquisitions. Revenues continue to grow, but channel competition from Datto, Veeam, StorageCraft and cloud upstarts intensifies.

Owen Taraniuk describes where Commvault is heading next with partners and customers in the data protection market.

Rubrik acquires Datos IO for NoSQL cloud backup, business continuity & data availability services. It's mostly an enterprise deal, but future SMB & MSP competition with Veeam, Datto & StorageCraft may emerge.