Unitrends Delivering Rapid Recovery Platform for SMBs

Unitrends announced the availability of its newest Data
Protection and Rapid Recovery 3.1 platform for small and medium
businesses (SMB).

The new product enables customers to simplify their
backup and recovery solutions, with centralized management capabilities,
support for an unprecedented 30+ operating systems, as well as
additional applications, and integrated solutions for VMware, allowing
customers to reduce management costs and increase performance. The
company also announced the availability of its higher capacity
Multi-Drive Archive System, which can accommodate up to 30 terabytes of
uncompressed data per disk set, providing customers with the ability to
archive significant volumes with near-instant recovery.

“ESG Research reveals that 77 percent of SMB
organizations would be very or somewhat likely to rely on a single
vendor for their data protection solutions. Unitrends’
disk-to-disk solution addresses backup, archiving, bare metal recovery
and electronic vaulting for disaster recovery,”
said Lauren Whitehouse, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “While
other SMB products on the market address various aspects of data
protection and disaster recovery, Unitrends Rapid Recovery Solutions
integrate all the data protection and recovery functionality and
management capabilities a SMB needs into one complete and integrated
solution.”

Unitrends’ Data Protection and Rapid Recovery
3.1 includes integrated support for VMware’s
ESX 3.0 Server Backup and VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) and enhanced
Windows support, providing support for virtualization environments as
well as Microsoft SQL MSDE and Exchange 2007 in addition to a
Centralized Management Console and enhanced user interface for superior
ease of use and system manageability.

“Unitrends’ latest
3.1 release makes its data protection solutions easy to install, easy to
support and manage, and easy to sell. Customers will also find the
enhanced and intuitive user interface fresh, sleek and appealing,”
said Mike Estep, vice president, Information Technology at the Business
Equipment Center of Atlanta (BECA). “By
continually enriching the breadth and functionality of its solutions,
Unitrends clearly aims to provide best-in-class solutions that empower
their channel partners. Not only are we able to quickly demonstrate the
value of Unitrends solutions to our customers, but we’ve
also been able to increase our efficiency, overall customer satisfaction
and ultimately our profitability. We look forward to a strong and
growing partnership with Unitrends.”

Latest Rapid Recovery Advances for the SMB

The enhanced IT systems management, virtualization and vaulting
performance of Unitrends Data Protection and Rapid Recovery 3.1 includes
features such as:

• (DPVs).
  Enhanced Vaulting Performance that reduces vaulting windows and
  improves bandwidth utilization by enabling block-level data to be
  transmitted more quickly, efficiently and reliably from Unitrends’
  Data Protection Units
  (DPUs) to its Data
  Protection Vaults
• Integrated Support for VMware’s ESX 3.0
  Server Backup and VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) and enhanced
  Windows support, including Microsoft SQL MSDE and Exchange 2007.
• Broadened Operating Systems Support to include Windows Vista 64-bit
  desktop operating system, and other 64-bit Windows operating systems.
• A powerful, integrated Centralized Management Console that provides
  the ability to manage multiple Unitrends DPUs and DPVs from a single
  console, an intuitive user interface, recovery and configuration tools
  for ease of use, and SQL status reporting.

Higher Capacity Multi-Drive Archive System
With 4 terabytes of raw capacity, Unitrends’
new higher capacity Multi-Drive Archive System allows customers to use
removable disk technology for archiving significant volumes of data –
typically in the range of 10 to 30 terabytes of uncompressed data,
depending upon the specific compression ratios of the data. With
removable disk-based archiving, customers enjoy near-instant recovery of
data files with an extremely reliable solution that reduces the amount
of media required – making it an ideal medium
for disaster recovery and off-site archiving. Unitrends higher capacity
Multi-Drive Archive is supported by the new Data Protection and Rapid
Recovery 3.1, and includes up to four drives per archive, RAID 0
configuration and is easily installed as a 1U box connected to a DPU.

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