Datto Launching Virtual BC Appliance

Kicking off the second annual Datto Partner Conference with a keynote speech at the ARIA Resort and Casino, Datto, Inc. founder and CEO Austin McChord announced to a room of MSPs, VARs, and sponsoring vendors, the company’s newest innovation, Virtual SIRIS.

Designed to leverage the reliability and centralized resource management of VMware’s hypervisor, it enables Datto partners to provide their clients with a BC solution that operates on the same platform as their existing virtual infrastructure. At launch, the product will be compatible with VMware ESXi versions 5.1 and 5.5.

“The market demands products that work within virtual environments,” said McChord. “Many of the aspects that make Datto products great are founded in the benefits of virtualization, and breaking into this platform has opened endless possibilities for the future of both Datto and our partners. In developing Virtual SIRIS, we translated those benefits into a simple tool that enables partners to dramatically scale their business and more cost-effectively service the clients that they acquire.“

The addition of Virtual SIRIS to the SIRIS 2 product family reinforces the theme of BC Built From the Ground Up, in that it builds on the same core software and interface that is found in the traditional, physical SIRIS 2 appliances. It was with this technology that the company changed the prevention of system downtime, via instant virtual-failover, but also the ease of protecting and restoring data.

Two differentiators give an advantage to the solution:

Instant virtual-failover for both physical and virtual systems without nested virtualization
Provides off-site redundancy through a secure hybrid cloud architecture

Working with partners throughout the development process has given the company insight into what features will be prove valuable in the market, as product director Ian McChord stated: “Our goal is to equip partners with a comprehensive suite of solutions that delivers unmatched BC no matter what type of IT infrastructure needs to be protected. A virtual appliance is just another example of how Datto boils down the complexity of backup and DR (BDR) so that we can provide one solution that you can offer your customers – to keep their systems running and their data available.“