Datto Expands Portfolio with Virtual Offerings
Hybrid cloud backup, disaster recovery and intelligent business continuity firm Datto launched its new appliance Virtual ALTO and enhancements to its Virtual SIRIS this week. Both are expected to expand Datto’s influence in the channel to include physical and virtual solutions while providing more convenient buying and deployment options for customers.
Hybrid cloud backup, disaster recovery and intelligent business continuity firm Datto launched its new appliance Virtual ALTO and enhancements to its Virtual SIRIS this week. Both are expected to expand Datto’s influence in the channel to include physical and virtual solutions while providing more convenient buying and deployment options for customers.
“Today is an exciting day for Datto and the channel. Entering the virtual landscape is a natural progression for us,” said Datto founder and CEO Austin McChord, in a statement. “The addition of these virtual appliances are a win-win scenario for managed service providers, value added resellers and IT business owners who want an end-to-end virtual solution that minimizes downtime and provides robust data protection.”
Virtual SIRIS has been enhanced with the ability to spin up local recovery virtual machines instantly, even without Internet connectivity and harnesses the same core technologies as Datto’s SIRIS 2 to connect to the secure Datto cloud. Virtual ALTO uses hybrid virtualization technology originally used in older models of the ALTO family and is designed to run on vSphere Essentials, vSphere Free and Microsoft Hyper-V platforms. Virtual ALTO features medium-enterprise performance built specifically for small and mid-sized businesses, according to the company.
Datto said both solutions will be able to protect virtual and physical servers and feature integrated cloud replication and simplified disaster recovery failover to help make solutions easy to manage. Additionally, Virtual SIRIS and Virtual ALTO will use Time-Based Cloud Retention to streamline cloud billing and allow service providers to quickly manage their customers cloud data.
Datto announced the launch of Virtual SIRIS earlier this year during the Datto Partner Conference 2014. Last week, the company was also named as Marcum Tech Top 40’s Fastest Growing Technology Company in Connecticut for the second year in a row.
Both Virtual SIRIS and Virtual ALTO are available now in North America, with the solutions expected to ship in EMEA and Australia by the end of the month. Users can also sign up for a 45-day free trial for both offerings before they take the plunge.
