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They probably use Reynolds & Reynolds or similar
Donât know what R&R is, but Rodo doesnât own any cars, so all deals still go through the actual dealers.
Rey Rey is probably the largest dealer SaaS
Are you saying Rey Rey is their main dealer?
No itâs a software service
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Curious - could this CDK outage cause a pricing issue?
But my point is they canât do their own deals even with a different software provider since they donât own any cars. Am I missing something? lol
I got my own in-house Google Sheets DMS if anyone wants for the low low of $500/day
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Do you actually? Intriguing if so and if useful. Once upon a time, when I had a smaller business, I relied exclusively on my excel sheets.
Thereâs different software platforms. CDK is one. Reynolds and Reynolds (otherwise referred to as Rey Rey) is another. RODO certainly has CDK dealers. They certainly have Reynolds dealers, and other non-CDK dealers. Iâm assuming they will just route customers to dealers of whatever brand which uses non-CDK software
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Now weâll be able to tell if those GSMs that claim theyâre âone of a few in the country that can calculate a lease by handâ are full of shit or not 
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Iâm in the business of data protection and disaster recovery, and let me tell you that nobody(there are exceptions) has a sound strategy. Itâs like that saying âeveryone is a tough guy until they get punched in the face.â To have backup off-site and fail over, requires resources, manpower, time and effort that requires cost at the end of the day that customers are not investing into.
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I totally believe this.
I think my own personal data is likely better protected than some of these multi-million dollar companies, I have two on-site, one off-site, and anything really important is also in Google Drive.
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Redundancy is expensive but itâs better than nothing
Itâs Rodo⌠not like any of their deals exist anyway.
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Even if they did: once youâve had an intrusion, your backups becomes suspect, and probably your prod/non-prod environments. If this threat actor was any good, they wouldâve planted this thing in the past and set it lock on a timer.
I recovered from one of these about 18 months ago for a client, the system had multiple daily backups in multiple places. Two of us worked for 2 1/2 days straight recovering multiple backups into multiple environments until we found one that wasnât tainted, turned hamburger back into cow, and had to ignore the massive cloud hosting bill it generated. The footprint was much smaller than CDK.
If youâre trying to recover around it, you need 2x infrastructure and you need to quarantine the old one for forensics.
Good stuff,.glad you found a clean recovery point. Yeah this stuff gets dismissed until the business needs it and then they ask all the tough questions. Why wasnât this protected and detected and etc.
