Unitrends Trade Up Program Extended Through September 30, 2012

Unitrends, Inc. announced an extension to the Symantec Backup Exec competitive replacement program which expired last quarter.

The promotion offers up to a 50% discount to organizations switching from Symantec Backup Exec to a Unitrends backup solution.

"I had previously used both Backup Exec and Acronis, and was not happy with either product," said Larry Bowers, VP of Information Systems, Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative. "I needed to find a single vendor solution that could give me faster restores in a DR scenario, off-site replication, deduplication, and could backup my workstations. Unitrends offered me this along with simple licensing and US-based tech support. There are not many vendors in this space and Unitrends was the only one that provided this at a price point that was cost justifiable to management."

Given the success of the original promotion earlier this year, Unitrends has added the discounts to their standard 2012 price list, extending the savings through September 30, 2012.

"Our original offer stemmed from the poor customer response to the release of Backup Exec 2012, which dropped support for IBM pSeries/AIX, Solaris, and Novell Netware systems, but we quickly found there was a much larger demand," said Mike Coney, Unitrends’ president and CEO. "This promotion provides an economical way for those not satisfied with Backup Exec to move to one of our physical appliances or our new software solution, Unitrends Enterprise Backup based on the needs of their unique IT environment."

Unitrends offers enterprise data protection,
including features such as:

• US-based support with a 99% customer satisfaction rating
• Support for over 100 versions of computers, storage, operating systems, hypervisors, and applications
• Content-aware byte-level global deduplication
• Instant recovery using failover virtualization
• Dissimilar bare metal of both physical and virtual environments
• Integrated D2D2x (Disk-to-Disk-to-Any) data protection including archival support for disk, tape, SAN, NAS and archival and replication support for private and public single- and multi-tenant clouds
• Virtual support at the HOS (Host Operating System) level and virtual and physical support at both the GOS (Guest Operating System and physical server level)
• Optimization of precious business WAN bandwidth via deduplication to the cloud and cloud/archive concurrent DR strategies
• Flexible backup strategies – incremental forever with dynamic synthetics, full/differential, full/incremental, full/full, selective, and customizable strategies
• Near-continuous data protection performance with recovery point objectives of as little as one minute
• Spiceworks integration