Type Corporation CEO Austin McChord (2007–) Founder Austin McChord Number of employees 600 | Website datto.com Headquarters Norwalk Founded 2007 | |
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Industry Disaster recovery. Business Continuity. Key people CEO: Austin McChord, CTO: Robert Gibbons, CRO: Brooks Borcherding Products (v)SIRIS, (v)ALTO, dattoNAS, GENISIS, Backupify Profiles | ||
Datto, Inc., is a Connecticut (U.S.) company that provides products and services for hybrid cloud business continuity, planning and disaster recovery.
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Overview
Datto was founded in 2007 by Austin McChord, who was listed in Forbes' 30 under 30. Datto manages over 200 petabytes of data off-site across the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and the UK. Datto employs over 700 full-time employees between their various locations around the world.
In December 2014, Datto acquired Backupify, a Cambridge based Software as a service (SaaS) application backup solution. With the merger, Datto's Business Continuity product portfolio expanded into the cloud to cloud backup market.
FBI Probe
In August 2015, an FBI probe of Hillary Clinton's private email extended to Datto after her managed service provider, Platte River Networks, revealed they had been using a Datto server to backup all of the Secretary's emails. The probe sparked a controversy about Datto's company parties that feature hula dancers as well as the claims to major security flaws in their backups. Sen. Ron Johnson expressed "major concerns" that classified information was contained in Datto's servers since they lacked the necessary security clearance.