CBTS acquires Recovery Point Systems, adding disaster recovery services and data center space
The Cincinnati technology services company is adding managed disaster recovery, ransomware recovery, and a Tier III data center in Maryland through the deal, which follows a new chief technology officer and the launch of its Forge Agents AI platform earlier this month.
CBTS has acquired Recovery Point Systems, a Maryland-based disaster recovery provider. The deal adds managed recovery services and company-owned data center space to the Cincinnati company's infrastructure, cloud and security business.
CBTS announced the acquisition Sept. 10. Terms were not disclosed. Bank Street Group LLC was Recovery Point's exclusive financial adviser on the transaction.
By the numbers
- 1994: Year CBTS was founded in Cincinnati
- 3,000+: Clients served by CBTS and its OnX Canada division
- 30+: Years Recovery Point has provided data protection and colocation services
- 115,000: Square feet at Recovery Point's Germantown, Maryland, data center
- 6: Consecutive years Recovery Point has appeared in the Gartner Market Guide for Disaster Recovery as a Service
What Recovery Point brings
Recovery Point provides fully managed Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and cyber resiliency services for enterprise IT environments. Its clients range from Fortune 500 companies to small and midsize businesses, along with federal, state and local governments. The company manages recovery across complex, multi-platform environments, including legacy and mainframe systems, and handles plan development, testing and governance.
The deal also gives CBTS Tier III data centers that Recovery Point owns and operates. The announcement describes them as fiber-dense and ready for expansion. The same facilities run Recovery Point's colocation business, which lets clients use one provider for hosting, resilience and recovery.
Recovery Point's flagship facility is in Germantown, Maryland, about 25 miles from Washington, D.C. The company has described the site as a 115,000-square-foot Tier III data center certified by the Uptime Institute, with direct connections to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
With the acquisition, CBTS now offers:
- Fully managed DRaaS with orchestrated execution and measurable service-level agreements
- Ransomware Recovery as a Service (RRaaS), with AI-powered backup validation
- Cyber resiliency across hybrid, multi-cloud and legacy environments
- Recovery testing and performance assurance as standard practice
Why CBTS made the deal
CBTS tied the acquisition to AI. As AI workloads drive up data volume and infrastructure demand, the company noted, enterprises need resilient, scalable environments they control, without the cost of building their own.
The announcement also cited a Palo Alto Networks report finding that nearly 30% of security teams take more than a full day to resolve a single incident.
"Resilience is now a board-level obligation, not an IT project. With Recovery Point, CBTS delivers what enterprises increasingly demand: a trusted partner who can modernize their infrastructure, secure it, and recover it end-to-end, under pressure, with measurable outcomes," CBTS CEO Kristin Russell said in the announcement.
Recovery Point CEO Jack Dziak described the deal as a gain for both client bases.
"With CBTS, our clients gain access to a full range of enterprise technology platforms, and CBTS gains a proven partner in cyber resilience," Dziak said.
A busy stretch for CBTS
The acquisition capped a run of announcements from CBTS. On Aug. 31, the company named Mark Giles chief technology officer. Giles is a 10-year CBTS veteran and former U.S. Marine Corps data systems chief who previously led the company's AI adoption as vice president of AI. The new role brings AI, product management and emerging technology under one strategy.
The next day, CBTS launched Forge Agents, a platform that builds AI agents from a plain-language description of a task. It is aimed at midmarket and regulated organizations and draws on a library of 187 prebuilt components and 34 cross-industry blueprints. Forge Agents builds on Forge AI, the company's AI advisory and engineering offering launched in March.
CBTS told trade outlet Channel Dive that the Recovery Point facilities strengthen its ability to host AI infrastructure in environments customers can control.
About the company
CBTS designs, builds and operates technology infrastructure for midmarket and enterprise organizations across North America, with expertise in AI, data, applications, platforms and security. The company has been named to the CRN Tech Elite 250 for seven consecutive years and ranks No. 49 on the CRN Solution Provider 500.
