Unboxing the BCDR Appliance Shaking Up the MSP World
About this episode
Austin McCord discusses the new BCDR appliance Slide and its significance in the MSP backup landscape.
The Datto founder is back with a new BCDR appliance, and it might be the coolest thing in MSP backup right now. Austin McCord, who built Datto from his parents' basement in 2007 and sold it for $1.5 billion before Kaseya picked it up in 2022, teamed up with longtime Datto exec Michael Fass to launch Slide. They call it unfinished business. In this video, I unbox the Slide hardware, walk through the Z1, Z2, F1, R1, and B1 models (the B1 holds up to 150 terabytes), and explain why a physical backup box still matters in a cloud obsessed world. I also break down the pay as you go pricing and which clients actually need this kind of power. Just to be clear, this is not sponsored. I asked Slide for the hardware because the story is awesome, and we are using it at our own MSP. Want to grow your MSP? Head to growth-generators.com to check out MSP Heroes and grab the book. Questions about Slide? Drop them below or visit slide.tech and tell them the bald guy on the internet sent you.
People in this episode
Guest: Austin McCord
Topics covered
- BCDR appliance
- MSP backup
- hardware unboxing
- cloud storage
- pricing models
- MSP growth
Keywords
- BCDR
- MSP
- backup
- Slide
- hardware
- cloud
- pricing
- Datto
- Kaseya
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Datto, Kaseya, growth-generators.com, slide.tech
Products: Slide, BCDR appliance, Z1, Z2, F1, R1, B1
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