Datto believes that every client deserves Datto’s commercial and technical abilities, and they make it even easier for MSPs to get started with their Partner Fast Track Offer.
All new partners receive up to three appliances with free-to-use hardware – any SIRIS or ALTO model. Partners also receive 50% off service – including month-to-month subscriptions – with no hidden fees – just immediate value and support and support of any length including month to month. This is now possible with $0 hardware on all SIRIS or ALTO products, for any term – including month to month. They are also prepared to grow their revenue, and simplify operations and support partner success from day one.
With SIRIS, it starts with backups that are verified at multiple levels including screenshot verification that verifies not just boot-up ability but application accessibility. Plus Datto says that their patented ransomware scanning delivers peace-of-mind that client data is not compromised.
Datto is also immutable By Design.The immutable Datto Cloud includes multiple security layers to protect client data, all backed by a team of in-house security experts.
Another bonus is that DRaaS comes standard. In case of emergency, Datto customers can simply spin up and have their client run invisibly in the Datto Cloud while you handle outage.
Datto can also boast about its profitability. The addition of Free Hardware instantly increases the bottom line, while allowing enterprise-class protection for every client.
SIRIS is part of the familiar and proven Datto Backup Suite. This enables MSPs to manage all clients with tools like SIRIS, Endpoint Backup, Backup for Microsoft Azure, and SaaS Protection — increasing MSP technician productivity.
In addition, every Datto Partner is assigned a dedicated Backup Solution Architect to ensure they are optimizing their profitability, as well as supporting their technical needs throughout the data protection journey for new and existing clients.
With FLEXspend for Datto Backup, the location of your data may change, but the need to protect it doesn’t. Datto allows you to easily move your backup investment from your SIRIS appliances, to the cloud, SaaS, and anywhere in-between.
Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) is a tough nut to crack for a lot of organizations,” Thurston added. “Many organizations pay for BCDR solutions, thinking they have them protected, but they don’t. Before we introduce change to a client environment, we need to understand what we are building on top of. BCDR is the foundation on which we build our practice. If there are cracks in the foundation, we have a great solution (Datto SIRIS 5) to fill those gaps.
“Datto isn’t the cheapest, but it’s the best I’ve seen, and I’ve seen a lot of them,” said Alex Eissler of Vicinity. “The live screenshot backup verification is huge. I wasn’t able to get that in Veeam or Commvault. Even if I want to do it, it’s a multiweek project to get a BCDR environment stood up to spin-up the virtual machines to verify. With Datto, I don’t have to do any such things; everything is covered in the solution.”
“Datto BCDR is plug-and-play,” Thurson stated. I was able to help CATG set it up remotely. I was able to go to them and say, ‘I know I am not there with you on-site, but we can set this up remotely.’ We registered the device, got it online, integrated with vCenter and got the data backed up,” Thurston said
Datto BCDR solutions offer seamless integration and come with innovative features, such as screenshot verification, multifactor authentication and reporting capabilities, that enable MSPs to ensure their clients’ data is securely backed up and bootable, and also exhibit the real value of their services to clients.
“In the past, I’ve dealt with other backup solutions, like Commvault, Veeam and Backup Exec, Thurston said. These kinds of legacy-first and second-generation data backup solutions are costly and difficult to implement. “They leave a lot on the table for you, as the MSP, to engineer, take ownership and run yourself. They don’t have the necessary security protections built in.”