Kaseya MSP Partners Plug into Symantec Storage

Kaseya makes most of its cash selling systems management through MSPs, and only recently increased efforts to sell software to IT in on-premises form.

Now these MSPs can add backup to their arsenals -- and brand name backup at that. An upgraded plug-in from Symantec integrates Kaseya more tightly with Symantec Backup Exec.

With Symantec Backup Exec Management Plug-in 1.1 for Kaseya, MSPs can use the Kaseya console, the Virtual System Administrator, to monitor backups remotely.

Providers can receive alerts, learn how backup tasks are progressing, and check status such as disk availability, all without leaving Kaseya.

Specific reports include “backup job history, license usage summary, and discovered machines summary report,” Symantec said

“The plug-ins enable MSPs and solution providers to access backup tasks that had previously run on Backup Exec servers, as well as active alerts, the states of storage devices, the amount of available space and a slew of monitoring reports. The plug-ins also support any combination of Backup Exec 2012, 2010 and 12.5 and Kaseya 6.1,6.2 and 6.3,” Symantec added.

The newly revised plug-in now supports Windows Server 2012, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, and Kaseya Server 6.3.

Symantec also now allows Kaseya consoles to work with Symantec Endpoint Protection.

Symantec Strategy

The plug-in is part of Symantec’s move more deeply into the MSP space. Last year the company announced the Symantec Partner Management Console, a Web portal into the company’s key storage tools. Besides Kaseya, Symantec uses the console to integrate with Level Platforms and LabTech.

A Little Kaseya Magic -- Quadrant that is!

Earlier this year, Kaseya made some noise with the fact that Gartner put the management vendor in its Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools. Kaseya was tagged as a “visionary” in the recent Gartner report.

“Kaseya is the only solution providing a vendor agnostic command center from which IT administrators can monitor, manage and protect their IT infrastructure while at the same time automating key tasks. IT administrators worldwide save time, lower costs and improve productivity with the unique brand of automated, enterprise-class systems management technology that Kaseya delivers, available via a SaaS delivery model or on-premises solution,” the company argued.