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How Datto's Austin McChord Brings IT Systems Back From the Brink of Destruction In short, he makes IT happen.

By Jason Ankeny Edited by Frances Dodds

This story appears in the September 2015 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

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Austin McChord is the master of disaster. His data backup, recovery and business continuity company Datto defends customers around the globe against the threat of network catastrophe, safeguarding information everywhere it resides.

Datto's Total Data Protection platform encompasses a suite of proprietary software and hardware alongside a 140-petabyte private cloud to store and restore data across a client's physical and virtual servers as well as SaaS applications, promising near-instantaneous end-to-end recoverability if and when misfortune strikes.

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