Public Beta Version of Unitrends Free

Unitrends, Inc. released the public beta version of Unitrends Free, a addition to the company’s virtual data protection software family.

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Unitrends Free is a free backup solution specifically designed for IT professionals seeking cost-effective protection for home labs, early-stage virtualization projects and small environments. The software delivers true production-ready capabilities not available in other free virtual backup tools.

“The Unitrends Free experience is flawless and easy,” said Bill Damron, VP, A-1 Limousine Inc. “You usually don’t come across a free product that is both straightforward and fully functional, not to mention, one that features a beautifully designed, intuitive user interface. The software enables impeccable recovery at the file-, instant- and VM-levels, and I am also impressed with how smooth Unitrends has made the restore process.“

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Features Unitrends Free include:

• Free vSphere and Hyper-V backup for unlimited Vms and sockets. Unlike other tools that restrict usage by number of VMs or sockets, Unitrends Free provides hypervisor-level protection for up to 1TB of data.

• Instant VM recovery. It makes it possible to run a VM directly from a backup to reduce downtime. Instant recovery allows users to spin up copies of their VMs for recovery verification, testing and development.

• Automated daily scheduling. The product features ‘set it and forget it’ scheduling with daily recovery points to keep a user’s system protected at all times – even when no one is around.

• Fast, incremental forever backups. It delivers changed-block tracking and incremental orever backups to ensure that backups complete rapidly every day – without using a lot of storage.

• Cloud integration. Users can take advantage of low cost long-term storage via integration with third-party clouds such as Google Cloud Storage, Google Nearline and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

• Unitrends community integration. Users benefit from limitless support provided by the Unitrends Community. Directly integrated into the Unitrends Free user interface, IT professionals can search the forum and collaborate to help one another, while earning attractive rewards.

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“We’ve been utilizing a paid version of a competing virtual backup tool, and it’s clunky, slow and unnecessarily complex – on the contrary, Unitrends Free is fast, responsive and is not resource-intensive,” commented Darrin Molloy, health computer systems engineer, Peter Christensen Health Center. “Unitrends has raised the bar for simplicity of use for a backup and recovery product overall, let alone for a free version! With a few simple clicks, you can get peace of mind that your data is protected.“

With Unitrends Free, the company is answering the market’s call for robust, no-cost data protection with fewer restrictions – and it’s backed by a Unitrends community forum. IT professionals can capitalize on free capabilities enjoyed by existing Unitrends customers, as well as easily exchange ideas, get technical support and drive dialogue on effective methods for backup, archiving, instant recovery and DR.

“Unitrends Free couples enterprise capabilities not found in other free tools with refreshingly uncomplicated navigation and performance monitoring capabilities. We are pleased to offer individuals and organizations with smaller environments or limited budgets the high-caliber data protection they too deserve,” said Kevin Weiss, president and CEO, Unitrends. “With the Unitrends Community rallying behind the product, fellow users can also tap each other’s expertise and experiences to get the most out of Unitrends Free virtual backup and recovery.“

The beta version of Unitrends Free is available.

In celebration of the launch, one lucky user will win a $1,500 Visa Giftcard. To download the software and obtain more details regarding the sweepstakes.