ALTO

A business continuity solution that delivers enterprise-grade functionality at a small business price.

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  • All in One Platform
  • Small Yet Mighty
  • Backup and Restore
  • Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
  • Ransomware Protection

The SMB Total Data Protection Platform

Total Data Protection platform built for small businesses.

ALTO is Datto’s cost effective, yet fully featured. Recover granular data quickly from multiple points in time, and use Instant Virtualization in the Datto Cloud to spin up lost servers, getting back to business in minutes.

All-in-One Business Continuity

Built for MSPs to ensure their customer’s business is always on and resilient to disasters, ALTO is an all-in-one BCDR solution that includes verified backups, restore options for any scenario, instant virtualization, and ransomware protection. All backed by Datto’s private cloud.

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Small Yet Mighty

Easy To Implement Turnkey Device

ALTO 3 is a plug-and-play appliance that can be up and running in minutes, and managed through a simple web-based management console.

Keep Business Running: Instant Recovery To The Cloud

Protect data in the local device with frequent backups, replicate backup data to an offsite cloud location - and if disaster strikes, run your server instantly in Datto’s secure cloud.

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Backup and Restore

Protect both Physical and Virtual Infrastructure

Protects physical sources as well as the most popular virtual infrastructure types on the market.

Superfast Image-Based Full System Backup

Comprehensive full server protection ensures quick full system restores, easy recovery of individual files, bare metal restore (BMR) capability, and the ability to boot individual backups as virtual machines.

Instant Full Server Restore

Use Datto’s advanced BMR to a local server, or Instantly Virtualize a server to Datto’s own secure cloud

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Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

Hybrid On-Premise and Cloud Data Protection

To virtualize and run a protected server with Hybrid Virtualization, ALTO initializes a virtual machine (VM) for that server in the secure Datto Cloud. Then the ALTO automatically connects that VM in the Datto Cloud to the local network through the ALTO, using a secure VPN tunnel.

Ensure offsite data protection by sending backup copies to Datto’s own secure 300PB+ Cloud

Fast initial data pre-seeding makes getting protected fast and easy.

Full-server Instant Failover to the Cloud

Datto protects systems from site-wide outages using instant off-site virtualization.

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Ransomware Protection

Unique, Automatic Ransomware Detection and Alerting

Datto rocked the industry when it announced the first ransomware detection feature as part of the Datto Total Data Protection platform.

Don’t Pay the Ransom: Roll back servers to moments before Ransomware attacks

Even from the very first backup, Datto uses several proprietary methods for detecting the presence of ransomware.

Instant Hybrid Virtualization gets critical servers - and you - back in business right away.

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How it works

Backup Insights

Gain insight into every single backup through Datto's intuitive Backup Insights interface.

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Screenshot Verification

Achieve peace of mind with frequent and automatic validation of backup integrity, immediately after completion.

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Instant Virtualization

Virtualize your entire business infrastructure locally or in the secure Datto Cloud in as little as 6 seconds.

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Architecture

Technology

Deployment

Server technology x64 Linux

Architecturally, ALTO is an x64 Linux server.

Its enterprise-grade architecture is unique because:

It’s a Total Data Protection platform

designed from the ground up which translates into cost efficiency, performance, scalability and extensibility

Architecture enables new Datto innovations

additional groundbreaking features, and business-building platform expansion well into the future

Asset 1 datto Datto Cloud Virtual Environments Physical Servers Datto Device Physical or Virtual VM VM

A complex combination of standard and proprietary software integrated into a single Data Protection platform.

SpeedSync
Datto ZFS
Apache
PHP 7 + FPM
KVM
Ubuntu 16.04
Next-Gen Datto BMR

SpeedSync

Datto’s proprietary weighted replication algorithm that enables ALTO to more efficiently sync data with the Datto Cloud.

Built on the efficient LZMA2 compression algorithm, SpeedSync enables multiple images to be pushed off site to the Datto Cloud at one time, subject to bandwidth throttling settings.

Datto ZFS

The base filesystem used in the ALTO built on industry standard ZFS. It provides protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, efficient data compression, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots, copy-on-write clones, and RAID.

It is used as the basis for continuous integrity checking and automatic repair with enhancements to enable Inverse Chains, Instant Virtualization, and a host of other capabilities.

Apache

The most popular general purpose web server in the world, running more than half the world’s websites.

Apache provides the basic web hosting capabilities for the Remote Web management connection, web based file restores, web based NAS file access, and ownCloud on ALTO.

PHP 7 + FPM

The latest and most performant release of the popular PHP web development platform combined with the benefits of the FastCGI Process Manager.

PHP is the application language for the ALTO platform, and FPM is the mechanism used by Apache to turn PHP into executable bits at runtime. This combination dramatically enhances ALTO performance, while enabling better memory management, adaptive process spawning and other goodies that make the ALTO platform more capable across the board.

KVM

Also known as Kernel-based Virtual Machine, this highly performant enterprise class virtualization host is embedded in every ALTO hardware and software appliance.

It is used for all local device virtualization, all screenshot verifications, and to generate Backup Insights file lists for individual file restores.

Ubuntu 16.04

The latest release of one of the most popular Linux variants on the market, providing enterprise class security, manageability, and performance in a small footprint.

Ubuntu is the basic operating system for all ALTO products, and supports many standard packages that ALTO uses as building blocks for the platform.

Next-Gen Datto BMR

Newly re-engineered to provide faster, more resilient bare metal restore options, BMR creates a bootable USB to plug into and image replacement hardware.

Simply create a BMR USB stick, plug it into the destination, and select the image to restore. Images and drivers are pulled in as needed to make this a fast restore process, and get the systems back up and running on new hardware fast.

Datto ALTO

ALTO Specifications

ALTO 3
Storage 2TB
RAM 8GB (DDR3)
CPU Intel Core i3-5010U
Network 2x1GbE
Chassis Mini Desktop

Deployment

Single small device, Simple plug and play implementation, Web-based management for one or many devices. Supports protection of Windows, Linux, and Mac source machines.

Testimonials

An Insurance Policy for your Data

“Our end users get peace of mind because they know their Datto SIRIS is protecting them. We always tell our customers that it’s a great insurance policy. When you do need to use it, you will be very thankful that you have a Datto SIRIS.”

Mark Calzone

Mark Calzone

President, Ash Creek Enterprises

Local + Cloud = Perfect

“SIRIS and the Datto backup solutions have become a profit center for us and given us peace of mind that we have never experienced.“

Hoyt Hagens

Hoyt Hagens

Vice President, ProMission Projects, Inc

Resources

[eBook] Datto's European State of the Channel Ransomware Report
eBooks

[eBook] Datto's European State of the Channel Ransomware Report

The report provides a wealth of detail on ransomware, including year-over-year trends, frequency, targets, impact, and recommendations for ensuring recovery and continuity in the face of the growing threat.

[eBook] RMM & Patch Management: The First Line of Defense Against Cyberthreats
eBooks

[eBook] RMM & Patch Management: The First Line of Defense Against Cyberthreats

Check out this eBook to learn how to approach your client security engagements and provide tactical measures to secure your clients’ IT environment.

[eBook] Selling BCDR Made MSPeasy
eBooks

[eBook] Selling BCDR Made MSPeasy

To help MSPs communicate the benefits of BCDR, we’ve put together this eBook to highlight various strategies and tactics to get the conversation started.