Kaseya announced it has completed its acquisition of
Datto for $6.2 billion, representing a share price of $35.50.
With the completion of the transaction, Datto's stock ceased trading and the company is no longer listed on any public market.
Kaseya's
acquisition of Datto strengthens its IT Complete platform with an
enhanced array of best-in-class solutions to help increase MSP
efficiency and profitability. Kaseya announced that at least 17 workflow
integrations between Datto products and the Kaseya platform are planned
within the first month, and 100% of commercial integrations are
anticipated to be completed within 120 days. Customers can immediately
expect substantial investments focused on upgrades and innovations to
all Datto product offerings.
The
list pricing on all Datto technology will be reduced by ON AVERAGE 10%
or more on new purchases. Some products' list prices will come down more
than that, while others might remain the same. With this pricing
adjustment, Kaseya continues to provide the only purpose-built platform
for the MSP that is priced right.
"As
we promised when we announced our intent to buy Datto, customers are
going to see investment in innovation and integrations go up and prices
come down," said Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola. "We are increasing our
technical investment in our products to ensure that every one of them
will be supported and integrated, with enhanced functionality. The end
goal is to be the most affordable and best option on the market for our
awesome customers."
"This
is absolutely the best thing that could have happened to Datto, our
employees and most importantly our MSP Partners," said Rob Rae, Datto's
Senior Vice President of Business Development. "Datto has always been
committed to building great technology and creating a culture where its
MSPs customers always come first -and as part of Kaseya, we will be able
to do this bigger, better, and at lower cost to the MSP."
Datto
will continue to operate as an autonomous brand from Norwalk,
Connecticut and other locations, with Kaseya's official global
headquarters in Miami. Since 2007, Datto's proven unified continuity,
networking, endpoint management and business management solutions have
helped MSPs defend against costly downtime and data loss in servers,
virtual machines, cloud applications, or anywhere data resides.
"I
want to reiterate - we bought Datto because we think they're AWESOME -
their world-class products, highly-regarded brand, innovative culture
and amazing people - we have no intention of messing up any of that. We
will build on what they created so in the end, MSPs will get the maximum
value from their solutions at an affordable price," added Voccola.