Kaseya is to merge with Unitrends, the specialist in backup and continuity solutions. Kaseya and Unitrends will continue to operate under their respective brands, and both companies remain a part of the Insight Venture Partners portfolio.
By combining Unitrends’ business continuity and disaster recovery technologies with Kaseya’s IT Complete suite of management solutions, the aim is to provide a single solution that meets the need for remote monitoring and management (RMM), endpoint management, network monitoring and management, professional services automation (PSA), IT service desk, security, and backup and disaster recovery.
It follows a OEM relationship between Kaseya and Unitrends MSP and what it says is the rapid market adoption of the resulting Kaseya Unified Backup offering – along with the adoption of Unitrends’ established BCDR and DRaaS (disaster recovery as-a-service).
Unitrends’ focus on providing BCDR and DRaaS solutions for medium to large enterprises and the commitment to distribution and channel partners will continue, it says, while Unitrends MSP will continue to design and deliver product variants that are customised to the need of MSPs.
“The decision to merge with Unitrends was a no-brainer for us,” said Fred Voccola, CEO, Kaseya. “Over a year ago, we embarked on a journey to provide our customers with the best BCDR solution for their needs. After working with Unitrends to launch the Kaseya Unified Backup offering to our MSP customers, as well as introducing the core Unitrends product to our enterprise customer base, we witnessed the explosive adoption of these solutions and decided that it just made sense to further our relationship and to bring our two companies together.
“We’re excited to share this news with our customers and partners,” said Paul Brady, CEO, Unitrends. “The scale of our combined company brings additional resources and talent that we can apply to our award-winning technology. The pairing of Kaseya and Unitrends means an expanded market for Unitrends into the MSP landscape and the further expansion of the Kaseya IT Complete Platform into the Unitrends enterprise customer market allowing our customers to further strengthen their IT infrastructure.
