Lasso Logic was a company formed in 2003 that pioneered continuous data protection (CDP) and an onsite–offsite backup technology for the small and medium enterprise market (SME).
[1] Lasso Logic was the first company to provide a disk-based continuous data protection appliance, called Lasso CDP, which continually backed up servers, applications, PCs, and laptops to itself in real time.
Before Lasso Logic, the only backup options were single point in time (SPIT) snapshot software that allowed IT administrators to back up to tape or to disk, usually at a resolution of once a day.
This allowed for instant recovery of data because the files were stored locally on the Lasso CDP appliance.
Lasso Logic and another company, enKoo, were acquired by SonicWALL in November 2005 for approximately $20 million total.