Episode 44 - Global Data Vault

Great Things with Great Tech Podcast

Anthony Spiteri

Tech News, News

5 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I talk with Will Baccich , Co-founder and CEO at Global Data Vault. Global Data Vault is a leader in cloud-based Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS), Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), and the backup for Microsoft 365 space. GDV strives to add the most value to their customers based on their guiding principals of Data Quality, Proactive Monitoring, Transparency and straight forward pricing. Will and and I talk about how how GDV was founded in the early era of file based offsite backup and how their innovative approach to abstracting more out of their core platforms for the customers led them to focus on a single backup vendor to offer industry leading backup and disaster recovery services.

Global Data Vault was founded in 2002 and is head quartered out of the Dallas, Texas.

☑️ Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Veeam, Platespin, Falconstor, Novastor, VMware, Service Provider

☑️ Raw Talking Points:

Perth connection
What's in the name
Hosted desktops
Buying GDV in 2006
Slightly different view to other providers
much more managed service company
responsibility to the protection of the environment
Cost effective high service
2 Datacenter Locations
Point of differentiation
DRaaS / BaaS / Microsoft 365 Backup
Current State of DRaaS/BaaS/SaaS Backup
2004 file backup business - Novastore
2007 backup no enough DR solutions
Falconstore, Platespin and Storagecraft
Working towards workable DR solution
2014 Veeam - Best technology and partnership
VeeamON 2015 - 5 launch partners
2016 sold GDV and kept the Veeam Business
Late 2021 Acquisition
Ransomeware - Insider Protection
Full DR from CC
10PB of storage held

☑️ Web: https://www.globaldatavault.com/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Yeah, I wonder why.
0:10.9	Watch out what you wish for.
0:15.9	Hello and welcome to episode 44 of great things with great tech.
0:19.9	The podcast highlighting company is doing great things with great technology.
0:23.8	My name's Anthony Sputeri.
0:25.2	And this episode, we're talking to a company that is a leader in cloud-based, backup as a service, disaster recovery as a service, and the backup for Microsoft 365.
0:35.5	A company that strives to add the most value to the customer
0:39.3	based on their guiding principles of data quality, proactive monitoring, transparency,
0:45.7	and straightforward pricing. They serve customers in the US, Canada and the UK,
0:51.0	probably elsewhere as well, and they sell both directly and three resellers.
0:55.9	That company's Global DataVolt.
0:57.7	And I'm talking to Will Bassich, CEO and core founder of Global DataVolt.
1:03.6	Welcome to the show.
1:04.7	So I'll do a shout out to Great Things with Great Tech.
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1:30.5	All right. So, well, before we get into talking about Global DataVolt, you've got a bit of a
1:36.7	connection with my home city of Perth, which I only found out about in having a bit of an
1:41.5	exploratory talk about this podcast. So just talk about that
1:45.3	because the world is truly small, but was it your great grandfather or your grandfather that
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