Kaseya, an emerging leader in IT Infrastructure management, just announced the acquisition of Spanning, the data protection specialist for SaaS applications. Of course the amount of the transaction is not public. We noticed that Jeff Erramouspe, former CEO fo Spanning before and after the Dell period, left the company in March 2018, probably for a reason relates to the Kaseya talk at that time.It's finally just aligned with what I predicted a few months ago as both companies belong to the Insight Venture Partners (IVP) portfolio. Kaseya started to resell Spanning following their partnership announced with Unitrends a few months ago. Definitely IVP is building something and could prepare a big sale following the consolidation of their fragmented data protection portfolio.
According to the press release, Spanning will stay in Austin and will operate as an independent entity.
Therefore, we understand why Spanning was not present at Dreamforce a few days ago, it was a surprise, but we know the reason behind. It has let Odaseva and OwnBackup monopolized the Salesforce data protection floor. It would be good to meet Kaseya with The IT Press Tour in 2019.
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