Unitrends Release 8.1 Delivers "Up to 50X" Faster Backup Windows

Unitrends, Inc. announced release 8.1, the latest version of the data protection software powering its Recovery-Series family of physical backup and DR appliances as well as its Enterprise Backup (UEB) virtual appliance.

Release 8.1 provides customers with up to 50 times faster backup windows, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) deployment option and advanced support for vSphere 6.

“We switched to Unitrends two years ago because the company provides the ability to do both virtual and physical appliance backups within one product, greatly reducing our TCO,” said Chad Bryan, network administrator, University Northwestern Ohio. “Since becoming a customer, the company has continually delivered cutting-edge data protection features that make our lives easier.“

Up to 50 times faster backup Windows
Release 8.1 includes a changed-block tracking feature for Hyper-V environments. This filter driver more optimally tracks changes to VMs at the hypervisor level as they occur, resulting in up to 50 times faster incremental backup windows and much shorter recovery point objectives (RPOs).

Support for vSphere 6
This release extends VMware protection to support vSphere 6. In addition to hypervisor-based protection, Unitrends also enables the protection of applications and OSs within one or more vSphereVM(s). With this feature, administrators can set different RPOs, RTOs and SLAs at the hypervisor level as well as granularly within the VMs themselves. They can granularly control the amount of data to be protected rather than having to select the entire VM.

UEB on RHEL
Driven by market and customer demand, deployment options for UEB include execution directly on RHEL in addition to packaged virtual appliances for vSphere and Hyper-V. The RHEL integration provides scalability for larger enterprises and includes direct attach for tape archiving.

Unitrends Free
Release 8.1 is the engine behind the company’s newly released Unitrends Free software, a free virtual storage appliance aimed at IT professionals seeking cost-effective protection for home labs, early-stage virtualization projects and small environments.

To download Unitrends Free

Enterprise features release 8.1 include:

Support for RHEL 7, Ubuntu 14 and Mac OS 10.10
Complete protection for SQL Server AlwaysOn Failover Clusters, which delivers enhanced physical and deep virtual protection for local HA
Support for NetApp Cluster Mode, which provides HA configurations for large environments
Advanced support for Oracle Automatic Storage Management, which ensures critical data is protected both on- and off-premise

“Release 8.1 demonstrates our continued commitment to providing flexible backup and recovery solutions that adapt to any IT environment,” said Mark Campbell, CTO, Unitrends. “With our proven data protection offerings, customers can stop worrying about data loss and downtime, and instead focus on strategic IT projects that drive business growth.“

To download free trial of Unitrends Release 8.1