Unitrends Rolling Out Release 7.4 With Better Data Retention and 10x Faster Replication

Unitrends Inc. announced availability of Unitrends Release 7.4, an evolved version of the software underpinning its solution suite of physical and virtual data protection and DR solutions.

Delivering improvements to retention, recovery, replication and archiving as well as DR orchestration and governance, it affords customers an ability to configure and incrementally scale the right solutions mix of on-premise, second-site and cloud backup and recovery capabilities to address their organization’s multi-environment data protection needs.

Faster Backups, Speedier Replication, Enhanced Dedupe, More Retention
With v7.4, the compant achieves a milestone in enabling enterprises to play IT safe. The software has upgraded Unified Enterprise Backup (UEB) and recovery series performance, offering enhancements, including:

100% improvement in data retention and 10X faster replication: Customers gain more retention and faster replication resulting from enhanced de-dupe characteristics of a unified bare metal/master backup type.
Unitrends Bridge: Customers are able to transform physical Windows systems into VMs with this one-click physical to virtual (P2V) feature. This capability enables instant recovery and drives down RTOs for physical as well as virtual backups.
100% RTO advancement: By eliminating the need to restore the bare metal and then file-based backup, RTO for physical windows recovery has been reduced. In addition, the business has introduced its physical and virtual GOS-level UEB Windows Instant Recovery (WIR) capabilities. The company offers both GOS- and HOS-level instant recovery.
50% to 200% acceleration in archiving: Expanding on its D2D2x archiving capabilities, it has implemented a parallel configuration that enables multiple jobs to execute concurrently.
VMware Certified Application Recovery (V-CAR): Combining the appliances with ReliableDR 3.4, users can orchestrate recovery processes from data backed up by Unitrends Enterprise Backup. Then, business rules are applied to certify the correct execution of BC and DR SLA compliance requirements.

“Unitrends Enterprise Backup is a fantastic product that doesn’t sacrifice virtual world capabilities in order to integrate your physical backup needs,” said Roy Mikes, an industry thought leader with expertise in virtualization, storage and cloud technology. “In this case, I agree with the description that you can simply, quickly and reliably recover your IT Infrastructure anytime, anywhere.“

Automated Testing and Governance for DR
The company has also integrated ReliableDR with its UEB and Recovery Series appliances. This allows customers to leverage the backup products to validate, on a continuous and routine basis, that recovery will be successful every time it’s performed. It automates testing, at an application level, to give enterprises proof that their VMs are working together and that backups meet application RTOs and RPOs. The company is also announcing its V-CAR feature to enable a more affordable option for customers to do DR testing and governance, which will start at $149/VM.

Advancements in v7.4 include:

Enhanced reporting capabilities with web-based user interface through which reports can be created in Adobe Acrobat PDF format for WYSIWYG viewing, distribution and printing.
Oracle 12c and enhanced Linux distribution support.
Integration with Unitrends cloud for no limits cloud replication.

“Unitrends Release 7.4 moves us even farther beyond the point-product orientation of most of our competitors, strengthening our ability to help customers simply, quickly and reliably recover their diverse IT infrastructures anywhere, anytime,” said Joe Balazs, VP of engineering, recovery series, UEB, and Unitrends cloud. “We are delivering innovative conversion and recovery technologies such as Unitrends Bridge, Unified Bare Metal Recovery and instant recovery for physical, virtual and cloud-configured environments-plus optimizing all of that with incomparable DR testing, orchestration and governance.“