Datto Saw Notable Growth Across EMEA and APAC in 2016

Datto, Inc. announced several major milestones in 2016, with plans to continue expanding its product portfolio and its geographic footprint in 2017.

Thousands of MSPs partner with he company for the technology solutions they need to serve their SMBs and ensure business data is readily available. In 2016, Datto had a 30% increase in MSP partner growth globally.

Growing Presence Abroad
The firm saw growth across both EMEA and APAC in 2016. In Australia and New Zealand, more than 100 new reseller partners signed on, while the number of backup devices in the region grew 600% since the start of 2016.

The DattoCon EMEA partner conference got an attendance up 178% compared to last year.

The company also opened new data centers in Iceland, Canada, Germany and Singapore in 2016, bringing the total number of its data centers globally to nine and the Datto cloud capacity to north of 250 petabytes.

Innovation Provides Additional Opportunity for Partners
Driven by a growing MSP market, Datto announced the following new solutions and enhancements in 2016:

SIRIS 3 – an integrated total data protection platform, supporting physical, virtual and imaged environments in one product. In 2016 SIRIS addeda ransomware detection and rollback capability, screenshot verification, agentless backup, support for Mac and Linux agents, diskless restore and a next generation management portal.
SIRIS 3X1 and SIRIS 3X2 – the all-flash BC solutions were unveiled during DattoCon US and DattoCon EMEA partner conferences.
NAS 3 – the cloud protected network storage solution, was released with several upgrades in 2016 including new hardware, block level deduplication for local shares, and NAS Guard, which allows a Datto NAS to connect with, backup and protect any data stored anywhere on local network storage and sync the data with Datto’s secure Cloud.
Backupify for Office 365 – the cloud-to-cloud backup solution delivered several feature updates the past 12 months including backup capabilities for OneDrive as well as the ability to backup SharePoint.

Honored throughout 2016

In 2016, the firm was recognized in both the channel and the IT industry with more than 70 awards.

Notable honors in the U.S. included Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, recognizing Datto CEO Austin McChord as a technology leader, as well as being named a CRN Tech Innovator for the SIRIS 3 X1 all-flash BDR device.
In the UK, it was recognized by CRN as Specialist Vendor of the Year and in Australia sales director James Bergl was dubbed Datto’s first ANZ Channel Chief.
It was once again recognized as one of the best places to work by both the state of Connecticut and the tech industry as a whole. For the second consecutive year, The Hartford Business Journal named the company one of the Best Places to Work in CT. Computerworld also recognized the firm for the third consecutive year as one of the Best Places to Work in IT, ranking the company in the top ten.

Code Red Support Team Introduced
With the increasing threat of ransomware hitting SMBs globally, Datto established a Code Red team within Datto’s 24/7/365 support team in 2016. Code Red support team is dedicated to handling critical DR situations that stem from natural disasters or cyber attacks such as ransomware. In 2016, the Code Red team handled 3,000 support tickets on behalf of Datto’s customer base. The team looks to expand in 2017 in order to continue assisting with extreme disaster situations.

“There’s no doubt that 2016 was an exceptional year for Datto as we continued the company’s tradition of strong product innovation while also laying the groundwork for more international growth,” said R. Brooks Borcherding, chief revenue officer, Datto. “We have a great deal in store for our partners in 2017 and look forward to providing them with the technology they need to continually grow their businesses.”