Alicorn Data

The Alicorn Platform

The Alicorn platform, is a continuous data protection (CDP) solution that brings together disaster recovery and data protection into a single and simple cloud data management and protection solution across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Save resources and costs by replacing point solutions with Alicorn's software-only platform. Benefit from a unified and automated recovery and data management experience across all workloads.

Reduce cost and complexity of application migrations and data protection with Alicorn's unique platform utilizing Continuous Data Protection.

Orchestration built into the platform enables full automation of recovery and migration processes.

Analytics provides 24/7 infrastructure visibility and control, even across clouds.

SAFEGUARD YOUR BUSINESS

DISASTER RECOVERY

Continuous Data Protection: Continuous data protection with always-on replication that creates thousands of recovery points, only seconds apart, to give you granularity and industry-leading RPOs. Journal-based recovery lets you easily select granular checkpoints every five seconds to rewind and restore entire sites, large enterprise applications, VMs, folders, and files.

Hypervisor-based replication works with both VMware v Sphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, and eliminates the need for scheduling, agents, and appliances. Multi-VM applications are protected as one cohesive unit for simple, consistent recovery from any point in time, with the fastest RTOs in the industry.

Simplicity: Software-only solution is hardware- and technology-agnostic, providing seamless integration for any on-premises infrastructure and cloud target site with fast installation means you’re up and running in minutes. A clean, easy-to-use interface offers centralized management and one experience, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Full orchestration and automation eliminate manual processes and take the pain out of DR.

Cloud-ready Architecture: Supports DR flexibility to, from, and between the clouds of your choice: private or hybrid cloud, public cloud such as Azure and AWS, managed cloud from one of our 450+ partners, and VMware on public cloud with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, or IBM Cloud. Purpose-built cloud architecture leverages native cloud services for resource management, auto-scaling, and cost-effective storage—with limitless burst capacity and no running VMs until needed during failover.

Analytics and Reporting: Built-in analytics provides unparalleled multi-site visibility, with a mobile app to monitor SLAs anytime, anywhere. Alicorn Resource Planner enables accurate infrastructure planning with your own real-world application data—you can predict and size your DR needs based on both protected and unprotected VMs. Detailed reporting across all resources and recovery operations ensures you have the correct data when you need it, whether for compliance and auditing, or performance analysis.

RESPOND TO RANSOMWARE ATTACKS

If your organization falls victim to a ransomware attack, how will you respond? Are your latest backup is from last night, last week, or, even last month? The questions then become, “How much data can we stand to lose?” and, “What’s this going to cost the business?”

With the Alicorn Platform your systems are covered with minimal data loss and downtime after a ransomware attack. Alicorn's Continuous Data Protection (CDP) keeps your data protected in real time. In only a few clicks, your data is fully recovered with the granularity to recover to a point in time, precisely before the attack occurred. Additionally, Alicorn's journal-based recovery is flexible enough to recover only what you need: be it a few files, virtual machines, or an entire application stack.

It’s Time to Attack Your Ransomware Recovery Strategy

With the right data protection strategy in place, it is possible to greatly mitigate the impact of cyberattacks on your business, and respond effectively.

Continuous Journal-based Protection

Alicorn makes sure you always have a clean copy of data somewhere. Block-level replication protects your data while journals deliver point-in-time recovery with seconds of granularity.

Use DR Testing to Ensure Success

Don’t leave things to chance. Test your recovery applications and data to ensure corruptions have been completely removed.

Defeat ransomware with recoverware

Gain confidence that you can recover from a malicious attack in just minutes with Alicorn.

Pinpoint Attacks with Alicorn Analytics

Network reports within Alicorn Analytics help you find unusual behavior in generated changes and to pinpoint the timeframe of malware attacks.

CONTROL YOUR DATA PROTECTION WITHOUT SACRIFICING MOBILITY

AZURE

Combining the Alicorn Platform and Microsoft Azure helps businesses achieve IT resilience by simplifying data protection and disaster recovery. Alicorn enables fast and flexible workload migration to and from Azure and between Azure regions, accelerating cloud adoption. Microsoft Azure can also be used as a disaster recovery site, eliminating the capital costs associated with owning and operating your datacenter. With support for Azure Blob storage as a long-term retention target, you can cost-effectively use the cloud for your backups.

Reduce DR Costs without Sacrificing Capacity

Utilizing Microsoft Azure native APIs, Alicorn only creates compute instances in Azure during recovery or migration, significantly reducing DR costs to storage alone—all while keeping unlimited burst capacity should the need arise. With Alicorn’s incredibly low RPOs and RTOs, you’ll save time and money in the event of a disaster, too.

Replication To, From, and Between Azure Sites with Ease

Replicate VMs, critical business applications like SAP, or entire datacenters to, from, or between Azure and Azure VMware Solution regions with built-in automation and orchestration. What’s more, with our Azure Quickstart Templates, you can get started in a single build step—from any underlying infrastructure and with no impact on production environments.

Working Together Seamlessly

Choosing Microsoft Azure along with Alicorn for backup and recovery, has delivered reliability, ease-of-use, operational cost savings and ultimately priceless peace of mind to IT staff. The high level of interoperability between the two solutions allow organizations the ability to offer continuous availability for their critical services while enjoying enterprise-grade, yet affordable IT performance.

AWS

Combining the Alicorn Platform and Amazon Web Services (AWS), businesses achieve IT resilience, by simplifying data protection and disaster recovery, while enabling fast and flexible workload migration to and from AWS sites. AWS can also be used as a cloud-based disaster recovery site, eliminating the capital costs associated with owning and operating your datacenter.

IT teams increasingly rely on the public cloud to deliver the cost efficiency and scale their business requires. Alicorn gives you the freedom to choose a backup and recovery option that fits your needs. Having your own disaster recovery or backup target site on standby in the cloud, without having to manage the hardware, power, or cooling, makes AWS the perfect solution for cloud-based data protection.

With enterprise-class continuous data protection (CDP) and orchestrated failback, Alicorn allows you to migrate and recover entire multi-VM applications to and from AWS in the event of an individual application failure, site-wide outage, or as part of a planned migration. Powered by journal-based recovery, Alicorn eliminates the potential for high data loss experienced with legacy backup methods. Minimize the impact of disasters, logical corruptions, or ransomware attacks by utilizing Alicorn to restore VMs, files, and folders from within seconds before an incident occurred.

Installs in on-premises infrastructure with no production impact
Easily deploys in AWS
Store replica and journal data on cost-effective S3 object-storage
Create recovery VMs when needed, with pre-configured sizing and network settings
Failover to AWS when ready
Burst and expand on-demand then migrate back to on-premises when ready
Native long-term retention to AWS S3 Standard, Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA
Use AWS Storage Gateway as a cloud backup target for long-term retention

GOOGLE CLOUD

The Alicorn Platform is designed to be hybrid and multi-cloud with the ability to replicate and failover between VMware on Google Cloud and any other Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware vSphere site. Alicorn provides a fast and easy way to leverage the value of Google Cloud. Configuration and usage with VMware on Google Cloud are nearly identical to a user’s on-premises VMware environment.

Continuous Data Protection: With always-on replication and journal-based recovery, Alicorn helps you seamlessly rewind and recover entire sites, applications, VMs, and individual files.

Application Consistency: Innovative consistency groupings allow for DR replication, migration, and recovery of all VMs associated with an application to or from VMware on Google Cloud in the event of an application failure, site-wide outage, or planned migration. All VMs are restored as a consistent digital twin of the production VMs in Google Cloud.

Orchestration & Automation: Remove complex, manual processes with runbook automation. Applications will recover using pre-defined settings, such as boot order, network configuration, and optional re-IP.

Hybrid Cloud Visibility: Built-in Alicorn Analytics simplifies multi-site management by delivering a comprehensive view of all your environments, whether on-premises, private, or public cloud. With intelligent dashboards, monitoring and reporting, users can maintain complete visibility of their entire digital estate’s protection and performance status.