Datto was founded by Austin McChord in the basement of his parents’ home in 2007, when he built the first model of his data backup appliance using Lego parts. So perhaps it is no surprise the ...

already sells its hardware to MSPs at a low up-front price with a monthly recurring fee that gives MSPs the opportunity to price the service as they see fit, a model Datto plans to continue.

Datto makes backup servers for “managed service providers,” companies that contract with small businesses to manage their IT infrastructure. You wouldn’t buy a Datto server for yourself, but ...

"The Datto brand is going nowhere," he said ... we're not going to force a change of business models either. "We're not going to force a change of commercial terms, we're not going to force a change ...