Unitrends Brings Out Tiered Backup Appliance

Unitrends, Inc. announced Recovery-943, a high-density, enterprise, tiered backup appliance.

The solution is the latest addition to Unitrends’ Recovery Series of scalable all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery and DR appliances.
 
Recovery-943 provides customers with tiered storage inside a single appliance to maximize backup performance and optimize data access. OS, metadata and backup sets are separated and stored on three different drive offerings inside the box: SSDs for OS data and HDDs for metadata and the backup storage pool.

It supports a maximum backup size of 50TB with an unformatted usable physical storage capacity of 97TB – all in a 4U form factor unit. This design enables customers to protect large amounts of data for longer periods of time using a single appliance.
 
Since stored data is only as good as its level of accessibility, Unitrends combined Recovery-943’s tiered storage design with tiered redundancy for protection of both the data sets as well as the drives inside the appliance. The solution is configured with RAID-1 protection for OS and metadata sets, and RAID-60 across 36 3TB backup storage drives. The appliance also includes dual power supplies and two fault-tolerant internal SSDs for the OS to ensure drive performance even in the event of a hardware failure. Adding another layer of redundancy, customers also have the ability to replace a failed drive using the appliance’s hot-swap capability.
 
"At a time when companies are pressed to do more with less, Recovery-943 provides customers with a single, high-performance appliance that backs up more data faster than ever before – and ensures that critical information is readily recoverable," said Dr. Mark Campbell, chief strategy and technology officer at Unitrends. "And, in typical Unitrends fashion, we did all of this at a price point and level of simplicity that meets the requirements of today’s overtaxed IT departments and allows them to focus on their business rather than their backup."
 
Recovery-943 also includes standard backup and recovery
features found in Recovery Series appliances, including:

• Enterprise heterogeneous backup – Protects more than 100 versions of OSs, hypervisors and applications.
• Byte-level Adaptive Deduplication – Combines inline compression with post-processing data deduplication to ensure that protected data is available for recovery.
• Instant recovery using failover virtualization – Recovers systems in less than five minutes, reducing downtime due to a Windows or VMware system failure.
• Integrated dissimilar bare metal recovery for physical and virtual servers – Recovers entire server images to dissimilar physical or virtual hardware, regardless of make, model or installed components.
• Cloud-based DR – Enables private cloud (via Unitrends’ appliances) and public cloud (via Unitrends’ Vault2Cloud) DR.
• AES-256 bit encryption – Provides security with minimal impact on corporate systems.
• Web-based user interface – Allows administrators to manage all appliances through a single, intuitive pane of glass.

Pricing and Availability
Unitrends’ Recovery-943 rack appliance is available for purchase at the promotional price of $99,995 through the end of the year. Standard pricing is $129,995, or $1,042 per raw TB and $2,000 per backup TB. Additionally, with Unitrends’ No Limits Licensing, customers can protect growing IT environments without worrying about ‘backup tax’, such as fees associated with protected system count, OSs or applications.