Episode 3 - Probax
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I talk with Kevin Allan, (Founder and CTO) from Probax. Probax offers a data protection platform for MSPs, offering intelligent and automated cloud solutions including Backup as a Service (BaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Archive as a Service (AaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) Protection for Dropbox, Microsoft Office 365 and more! Kevin and I discuss his roots in Perth where he saw a gap in the market that needed filling and how initial technology challenges contributed to Probax's success today.
Technology Partners Mentioned
Veeam, StorageCaft, Dropbox, Microsoft Office 365
Web: https://www.probax.io/
Services: https://www.probax.io/solutions/products
Instant 20TB Trial: https://hive.probax.io/Join
Music: https://www.bensound.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Great Things with Great Tech. |
| 0:13.0 | Episode 3. My name is Anthony Spateri, and this podcast is all about highlighting companies |
| 0:18.5 | doing great things with great technology. |
| 0:21.1 | And in this episode, I'm really happy to have Kevin Allen, who's the founder and chief |
| 0:25.8 | technology officer of ProBACs. |
| 0:27.9 | Welcome, Kevin. |
| 0:29.8 | Thank you, Anthony. |
| 0:30.7 | Thanks to having me. |
| 0:31.8 | Yeah, it's good to have you on. |
| 0:33.2 | Like, ProBACs is an interesting company. |
| 0:35.5 | It's something that I wanted to have on because I think, |
| 0:38.7 | you know, it's a bit different from the previous two episodes that we've done, |
| 0:41.8 | which has been more focused on infrastructure the service. |
| 0:44.5 | ProBax at its core is a backup company doing, you know, hosted backups for customers. |
| 0:51.2 | And it's also got a really interesting history, Kevin. And I'm going to take and start |
| 0:56.3 | this history session by going all the way back to the 1990s. And Kev's laughing because he knows why |
| 1:03.9 | and it's a very small world. Kevin is originally from Perth, but you're in New York at the moment. |
| 1:08.9 | We'll touch on why you're in New York at the moment. We'll touch on why you're in New York at the moment |
| 1:11.2 | a bit later on. But you went to high school with my wife, didn't you? I did, yes. Exactly |
| 1:18.8 | same year. And that was a really, really interesting sort of tidbit that I found out about Kevin |
| 1:24.0 | years later after actually meeting him in Prundival actually probably about two or three |
| 1:29.7 | kilometres down the road for where I live now. So yeah, that was a really interesting little |
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