Unitrends Extends Public Cloud Around World

Unitrends, Inc. announced that Unitrends Cloud, its secure, highly available, multi-tenant public cloud offering, is available to customers worldwide.

In response to growing demand for a local cloud data protection and DR service, the company has added new data centers in Australia, Canada, Germany and the U.K. to serve customers in AsiaPac, Europe and North America.

Organizations across the U.S. have paired company’s proven hybrid cloud offering with the company’s Recovery-Series family of physical purpose-built backup appliances and its Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) software for storage, long-term retention, DR and BC. With the worldwide expansion of Unitrends Cloud, customers across the globe have access to all of the same cutting-edge features and functionality.

“Environments are getting more complex, data growth continues to skyrocket and traditional restore technologies are struggling to keep pace,” said Kevin Weiss, president and CEO, Unitrends. “Unitrends’ hybrid cloud provides organizations with a fully-integrated DR and BC solution that makes it simple for them to meet evolving data protection requirements. Our U.S. customers have found this highly reliable, integrated approach far superior to the cloud connectors they use with other vendors. This is evidenced by the 300% year-over-year growth of ou cloud business in the first half of 2015. As we continue to rapidly expand our international footprint, we want to ensure our global customers have easy access to the same trusted cloud services.“

Unitrends Cloud is offered in three service levels:

• Metered (for storage) – Stores selected last backups in the company’s cloud and allows customers to acquire 250GB increments of protected capacity.

• No Limits cloud (for storage and DR) – Stores an exact image of local physical or virtual appliance contents in the company’s cloud on an unmetered basis.

• Forever cloud (for storage, DR and long-term retention) – Stores selected daily, weekly and monthly backups in the company’s cloud, along with an infinite number of annual backups, and allows customers to acquire 500GB increments of protected capacity.

Company’s cloud customers also have the option to purchase company’s DRaaS, which gives them the ability to spin up VMware and Hyper-V VMs as well as physical or virtual Windows servers in the cloud – expediting DR from several days to within one hour. Additionally, customers can select company’s ReliableDR technology as an added layer for VMware and Hyper-V recovery assurance. The solution automates DR governance and testing, giving organizations the ability to validate – on a continuous basis – that their data, systems and infrastructures are always protected. Using ReliableDR, organizations can ensure that their entire environment will be restored at the application level in accordance with defined RPOs, RTOs and SLAs.

“Unitrends cloud offers our customers unprecedented storage, long-term retention, DR and recovery assurance capabilities,” continued Weiss. “IT professionals get peace of mind with Unitrends knowing that, if the unthinkable happens, they will be able to ‘recover more’ than just their data – they will be able to recover everything they need to get the business backup and running quickly.“