Hystax Acura

Spec sheet

Purpose

Hystax Acura provides cloud migration, disaster recovery, and backup for IT workloads.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Product

Hystax Acura provides live cloud migration, disaster recovery, and cloud backup.Read 3 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Audience

Hystax describes Acura as built for enterprises and managed service providers serving thousands of customers.Read 3 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Deployment

Hystax says customers can request an Acura image and CloudFormation template for AWS deployment.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

API

The product specification says Acura is fully covered by a RESTful API for migration and disaster recovery automation and integration.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Security

Replication agents communicate with the Acura Controller using SSL-encrypted requests and controller-specific certificates.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Support

Hystax provides Acura live migration and disaster recovery documentation and directs users to contact support or create a ticket.Read 3 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Headquarters

Sunnyvale, California, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · hystax.com

Founded

2016Read 28 Sep 2026 · hystax.com

Company

Hystax says it was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Access controls

The support page says Acura supports flexible role management and configurable user access actions.Read 3 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Applications

The disaster recovery documentation lists support for applications including SAP, Active Directory, PostgreSQL, Oracle, NGINX, MongoDB, Hadoop, Spark, and MySQL.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Disaster recovery

For OpenStack disaster recovery, Acura supports agentless replication, protected-data retention in block devices, and replication of tenants, subnets, and flavors.Read 3 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Isolated deployment

The security documentation says replication can run in an isolated environment without requests to services outside the secured zone, including Hystax-hosted services.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Marketplace availability

Hystax states that Acura is available on AWS Marketplace for free.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Migration

It automates background replication and workload launch on a target platform, with cutover when the customer is ready.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Migration targets

The maker lists platforms including OpenStack, KVM, VMware, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and bare metal.Read 3 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

MSP support

Acura includes a multi-tenant partner portal for managing multiple customer migration projects.Read 3 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Network efficiency

Replication uses traffic compression and deduplication to reduce data-transfer time and cloud-resource use.Read 3 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

OpenStack DR

For OpenStack disaster recovery, Acura can replicate infrastructure settings including tenants, subnets, and flavors.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Pricing

The pages opened direct visitors to contact Hystax or request a demo; they do not state an Acura price.Read 3 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Release features

Version 4.6 adds storage-agnostic OpenStack changed-block tracking and Direct2Target support for disaster recovery.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Replication

The product replicates workloads in the background while they keep running, then supports a final cutover.Read 3 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Replication efficiency

The product says replication uses network traffic compression and deduplication to reduce data transfer time and cloud resource use.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Supported targets

The product lists OpenStack, oVirt, KubeVirt, Virtuozzo, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, CloudSigma, and CloudStack as target platforms.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hystax.com

Where Specifiction places it

• Disaster Recovery Orchestration Software#7 of 177.6
• Virtual Machine Backup Software#15 of 267.7