Timothy Guim, President and CEO, PCH Technologies

Written by Allison Francis
April 20, 2022

What was/is your general reaction to and thoughts about the announcement?

My first gut reaction to the news was that this is not good for PCH Technologies as a top-level Blue Diamond partner. Kaseya is just coming off the supply chain attack last summer, and is not a company we wanted to be affiliated with when it comes to RMM.

Datto has made great strides and it is a security-first company in everything that it has been doing. I have been to several invite-only partner events and have been very impressed by the senior executive team in terms of their commitment to security. Secondly, if Datto is merged into Kaseya, I am dreading the dip in service levels that go along with any merger.

So after some more thought, I am going to take a “wait and see” approach. I feel it would be much better if Kaseya kept well enough alone and let Datto run as is with the current team in place. The one other positive for Datto is that by going private, there would be less regulation than being public, and Datto could be more nimble as a company.

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Allison Francis is a writer, public relations and marketing communications professional with experience working with clients in industries such as business technology, telecommunications, health care, education, the trade show and meetings industry, travel/tourism, hospitality, consumer packaged goods and food/beverage. She specializes in working with B2B technology companies involved in hyperconverged infrastructure, managed IT services, business process outsourcing, cloud management and customer experience technologies. Allison holds a bachelor's degree in public relations and marketing from Drake University. An Iowa native, she resides in Denver, Colorado.