Unitrends Releases V7.2

Unitrends, Inc. announced the launch of Unitrends Release 7.2, the software powering its unified data protection offering of physical and virtual backup and recovery appliances.

It demonstrates the company’s investment in providing even the smallest IT departments with data protection at a price point and level of simplicity that meets their needs.

“Storage, backup and DR demands are skyrocketing as data volumes grow, but unfortunately, IT staffing rates are not rising with them,” said Dr. Mark Campbell, Unitrends’ chief strategy and technology officer. “IT administrators at small and medium-sized enterprises are continuously challenged to do more with less. Our mission at Unitrends has always been to provide them with enterprise data protection for heterogeneous environments that is affordable, easy to use and intuitive. Smaller budgets and limited resources should not mean companies have to sacrifice data protection, and Unitrends Release 7.2 ensures that this isn’t the case.”

Enterprise Functionality Wrapped in Easy-to-Use Design
Unitrends Enterprise Backup, the software-only backup and recovery virtual appliance, and Unitrends Recovery Series, its family of scalable physical appliances, are solutions that provide scalable, heterogeneous data protection at low TCO.

It adds to this ROI by providing IT administrators with an intuitive user experience – freeing up time and resources that they can devote to other pressing tasks.

Features include:

• Replication Wizard: Enables replication setup, as all replication functionality is managed on one appliance via a user interface.

• Masters with Include: Provides granularity for data protection by enabling IT administrators to specify inclusion lists for Windows file-level master, differential and incremental backups. With this enhancement, users have the ability to specify what data they want to backup – down to a specific folder or file type – making backups a simpler task.

• Legal Hold: Enables administrators to maintain retention control by specifying backup groups that should not be purged from the system for a specified number of days or indefinitely. This capability ensures companies meet compliance requirements and SLAs.

• DNS/DHCP Support for Windows: Simplifies client management by removing the IP address requirement for backups.

• Second-Level, Task-Based Menu: Includes task-based drop down options on the interface’s main menu for increased ease-of-use.

The unified data protection offering supports more than 100 different versions of servers, OSs, storage platforms, hypervisors and applications. With V7.2, companies also receive expanded data protection support for Oracle 11g on Linux and Solaris, Debian 7.0 and Ubuntu 13.04 on Linux, and VMware resource pools. Administrators also have the ability to exclude a subset of VMware VM drives from backups, which reduces backup size, saves storage space and increases retention.

Functionality for MSPs
The software includes integration with the ConnectWise professional services automation tool, as well as with remote monitoring and management systems. With this support, MSPs can monitor and manage end users’ infrastructures, including backup and recovery processes through their PSA or RMM system. This integration reduces TCO by replacing manual processes with automated system monitoring tasks that can be managed through a single interface.