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Kaseya’s CEO kicked off Kaseya Connect 26 talking about all the data that each of their products individually deal with on behalf of each customer and partner — and then announced Kaseya Intelligence and its one API as the foundation on which every product will exchange information for a truly better together story that unlocks some interesting opportunities for MSPs to provide differentiated value-added services.

Of course, that managed framework and common API create some compelling potential for Cyber Resilience as those capabilities come to Unitrends, Datto, and Spanning — including what I believe might end up being Kaseya’s Data Protection superpower.

DPM’s coverage of Connect 2026 includes:
Day 1: What I am listening for: https://lnkd.in/gFKSi2HY
Day 2: Announcements in Cyber Resilience: https://lnkd.in/gPfidYg8
Day 3: Favorite takeaway quotes: https://lnkd.in/gFnvyk3q

video transcript

Kaseya Connect, day one. One of the most interesting announcements has to be the OneAPI.

It’s the ability to connect the millions of data points across each of the Kaseya components into a single framework spanning their entire ecosystem.

Where I think this gets really interesting is in cyber forensics. Security technologies can inform backup technologies about when the bad things actually started happening.

I also think the risk score is going to help MSPs become far more proactive in monitoring and overseeing their subscribers’ environments.

Frankly, the idea of connecting all of those data points together might actually be Kaseya’s superpower.

Here’s the deal: every backup product makes copies of data, right? And most backup products usually have one thing they do notably differently from everyone else.

In Kaseya’s case, that differentiator might be more than simply pointing AI at a backup repository to figure out what kinds of data exist within a managed tenant framework. In theory, Kaseya understands much more about why the data matters because it knows the business units and teams the data came from through those managed frameworks.

That context makes the MSP a more strategic, higher value partner and, in theory, helps inform the Kaseya product suite on how to better protect data, retain it longer for regulatory compliance, support data sovereignty requirements, and address other business needs.

It may ultimately be that contextual awareness, powered by the managed framework, that becomes the real superpower.

We’ll see how that unfolds throughout 2026.