Datto CEO: MSP Focus Is Driving Company Growth And Expansion

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Does Datto use an MSP to run its IT?

Datto does not use an MSP to do our IT. Our IT needs are dramatically more complex than the average business. The average 1,000-person company does not need to secure almost 5,000 servers running the amount of data centers around the world we have. A 1,000-person company hopefully doesn't have 320 petabytes worth of data.

If you look, Datto has had to search far and wide to bring in really impressive IT talent to run our internal IT infrastructure, whether that's our CIO, who joined in the last year or two, or our chief information security officer that we recently brought in. We have a pretty large team because we need to lead. So not only do we need to drive IT to make our internal company productive, but we need to be there to educate MSPs so that they're following the best practices in the industry as well.