Friday's Last Word: OffsiteDataSync CEO Matthew Chesterton — Who exactly is he?

OffsiteDataSync CEO Matthew Chesterton has been leading the Rochester, New York-based disaster recovery company since 2001, which is when he founded the company.

Over the past several years, OffsiteDataSync has expanded its offerings across multiple industries, aligned its services to meet numerous industry and government compliance standards, and operates in data centers that have achieved successful SSAE-16 audit opinions.

What are his plans for OffsiteDataSync?

"OffsiteDataSync’s heritage is bringing next generation DRaaS and IaaS technologies to the marketplace," he says. "This means our staff is constantly researching, buying, testing, and evaluating the new technologies our vendors bring to us. Our engineers love pushing the boundaries of the new hardware and software to maximize its performance."

"Our investment roadmap calls for new data centers in Europe and East Asia and more enhancements to our customer portal which enables to our customers to more easily administer their offsite resources," Chesterton says.

Who does Chesterton challenge to sit in the hot seat?

Satya Nedella, CEO of Microsoft.

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