Fifteen years selling backup taught us what to build.
ArchiveBridge didn’t come out of a startup accelerator. It came out of a distribution business that has spent over a decade putting backup and disaster recovery products in front of Australian and New Zealand MSPs — and hearing, over and over, the one problem none of them solved: the SharePoint storage bill.
Nicholas Gee · Founder
The person behind it.
Nicholas Gee co-founded Cloud Ready Solutions in 2013 to be the kind of distributor he’d want to call — specialist, not broadline. CRS distributes backup, disaster recovery and storage products to MSPs and resellers across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, and holds a 4.9-star partner rating for how it treats the channel.
Before and alongside the distribution work, Nick’s trade has been the unglamorous end of IT: disaster recovery architecture and big migrations. A 1,000-server enterprise migration consultancy. A multi-terabyte SAP estate moved to AWS. A 25-million-file SQL and file-server migration. The habits that work forms — verify everything, keep an exit path, never touch the original until the copy is proven — are now rules in ArchiveBridge that no job can break.
The product exists because fifteen years of partner conversations kept landing on the same complaint. MSP clients were paying Microsoft roughly A$290 per terabyte per month to store files nobody had opened since 2019, and every alternative on the price list either locked the data in a proprietary vault or billed by the seat. Nobody was building the boring, honest version. So we did.
Two companies, one product.
ArchiveBridge is developed and owned by GeeIT, Nick’s software company — it writes the code and holds the product roadmap. The service itself is operated, sold and supported by Cloud Ready Solutions, a registered business name of Cloud Recovery Solutions Pty Ltd (ABN 68 166 375 766) — the same channel business that has supported ANZ MSPs since 2013. Nick founded and runs both, which keeps the distance between “a partner asked for this” and “it shipped” unusually short.
For procurement: your agreement, invoices and data-processing terms are with the operator, Cloud Recovery Solutions Pty Ltd— the entity named in our terms and privacy policy. GeeIT holds the software IP; it isn’t your contracting party.
That structure matters for one practical reason: when you email support or ask for a feature, you’re not going through three layers of vendor management. The person who architected the product reads the partner channel.
Talk to the person who built it.
Questions about the product, the roadmap, or whether it fits your stack — the engineer answering is the one described above.