Datto Launching Siris 3 Platform

Datto, Inc. announced the availability of the company’s next generation of products and services designed to protect and restore business data.

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The enhancements support firm’s ongoing commitment to total data protection, ensuring business data is secure and accessible – no matter where it lives.

Austin McChord, founder and CEO, Datto, introduced these products during his keynote presentation at the company’s annual partner conference, DattoCon 2016. Presenting to more than 700 MSPs, he discussed key highlights including the SIRIS 3 platform, released with enhancements to the SIRIS solution.

McChord also introduced a new addition to the SIRIS line, the SIRIS 3 X1, an all-flash backup appliance.

Additionally, enhancements were announced to the firm’s Device Management Portal, providing company’s partners with a range of new capabilities to more effectively manage large device fleets, as well as the release of Infinite Cloud Retention, a new service offering that stores business data for life.

With the new releases, the firm delivers flexibility, performance, and value, enabling partners to more efficiently protect their clients’ business data anywhere and on any device.

“At Net Works, we’re frequently seeing more customers with multi-platform environments and we’ve continuously adapted to meet their needs,” said Tommy Wolosin, director, technical sales and marketing, Net Works LLC (Nashville, TN-based), a Datto partner. “With Datto’s recent SIRIS 3 announcement including Mac support and agentless backup we feel confident that we can support and protect data in any and all scenarios. As a Datto partner, everything we’re offering our customers falls under the Datto umbrella, which makes both upsell opportunities and overall management a snap.”

Product highlights include:

• SIRIS 3: Firm’s SIRIS platform continues to enhance and unify the capabilities of Datto’s market leading backup, recovery and BC solutions. Partners can now deploy SIRIS in their preferred method including the SIRIS 3 high performance appliances tailored to the specific requirements of the SIRIS solution, the SIRIS 3 Virtual service which can be deployed across a range of hypervisors, and the SIRIS 3 Imaged service (previously GENISIS), a conversion tool that turns non-Datto BDR devices and other servers into a SIRIS appliance. The SIRIS 3 software comes standard with the purchase of any SIRIS 3 service effective immediately, and will be available as a free upgrade for all SIRIS 2 appliances shortly.

  SIRIS 3 platform enhancements include agentless backups for systems running VMWare hypervisors, new agent technology to support both Linux and Apple Mac endpoints, Diskless restores, the addition of rich NAS and iSCSI support, hybrid virtualization (previously only available on the firm’s ALTO), and Linux backup screenshot verification. SIRIS 3 appliances come with 10GbE interfaces and the latest generation of Xeon CPUs for increased performance as well as IPMI across the entire range. In addition, Datto is upgrading SIRIS 3 to Ubuntu OS 16.04 and to the KVM hypervisor, another industry first, which brings performance and security enhancements.

SIRIS 3 X1

• SIRIS 3 X1: The SIRIS 3 X1 is an all-flash BC solution. It comes in a powerful yet small form factor and supports all the advanced SIRIS 3 functionality. The X1, with a 1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM, can perform local virtualization directly on the appliance. And the X1 incorporates the NAS shares, iSCSI Boot, Linux and Mac agent support, and even the Infinite cloud Retention long term storage offering.

• Infinite Cloud Retention: The company is unveiling a new pricing model for partners regarding their cloud storage needs. With Infinite Cloud Retention (ICR), firm’s partners can  store backup data forever in company’s cloud. This capability, available for both SIRIS and ALTO, provides partners with a proposition for their customers to guarantee they will always have access to the data they need when they need it.

“Service providers need to adapt to stay competitive,” said Austin McChord, CEO and founder, Datto. “With the SIRIS 3 platform, the new SIRIS 3 X1 appliance, and our Infinite cloud Retention offerings, our partners can support both newer IT infrastructure and legacy systems, greatly expanding their opportunities and delivering on our commitment to BC.“

With thousands of MSPs providing firm’s solutions to their businesses, DattoCon has grown into a must-attend event for the MSP industry. In addition to the product news, McChord discussed the rapid growth of the company is experiencing for its file sync and share solution, Datto Drive, with thousands of account signups since the recent launch in May, 2016. The company is giving the first one million companies to sign up for Datto Drive a free one-year subscription that includes 1TB of secure cloud storage for unlimited users.

Also at DattoCon, Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder, inventor and philanthropist, join McChord for a keynote session entitled iWoz: A Conversation with Steve Wozniak. Along with exciting keynotes, Datto partners will enjoy a range of sessions across sales, marketing and technology topics to address channel-focused challenges for providing total data protection.