Unitrends Releases 9.0 Recovery Solution

Unitrends, Inc. announced the availability of Release 9.0, the company’s latest data protection technology enabling IT professionals to recover not only data and systems, but also their time and confidence.

Reconciling simplicity with comprehensive protection, Release 9.0 software has transformed the customer experience by making it easy for organizations to use and manage the company’s cloud-empowered backup and recovery offerings.

IT departments face demands due to the increased use of virtualization and cloud technologies, data growth, flat IT budgets and new business requirements for innovation. And improving backup and recovery is consistently ranked as a top IT priority. Enterprises need to focus on executing their business plans, not wasting time on inefficient data protection and recovery tasks.

Release 9.0 delivers a solution that enables IT to focus on what matters most – their own business. Through the use of automation, intelligent reporting and an intuitive user interface that reduces the time required for routine tasks, the company allows businesses to recover their data, confidence and time to focus on more critical projects.

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User experience
The Release 9.0 provides an intuitive interface that is making busy IT administrators’ lives easier and enhancing their quality of time at work. The software, which powers company’s Recovery-Series physical appliances, company’s Enterprise Backup and Free backup and recovery software solutions as well as Unitrends Cloud, simplifies everything from system setup and common backup and recovery tasks, to troubleshooting and support. The user-centric dashboard and screens reduce entry errors, training time and support costs, boosting administrators’ productivity in achieving corporate data protection and BC.

Recovery assurance provides peace of mind
Featuring integration with company’s Reliable DR, Release 9.0 delivers recovery assurance for physical Windows backups in addtion to vSphere and Hyper-V applications. IT administrators can now validate the recovery of multi-tiered, applications across virtual and physical environments – a need for non-virtualized, mission-critical physical Windows servers. IT administrators have increased confidence in their backup solution with automated recovery of these indispensable systems.

IT Pros Applaud Release 9.0
Since announcing Release 9.0 Beta in August, market response has underscored the value company’ latest technology provides in helping IT pros to ‘get their lives back’ by reducing the time they spend on backup and recovery.

“Unitrends has already delivered a 75% reduction in backup management overhead, because I only had to touch the new system a quarter of the time. Never before had we been able to combine backup, DR and storage in one tightly integrated package. It’s unique and a major time saver; it will help decrease recovery time for organizations of all sizes,” said a information tech manager, county government.

“This [Unitrends] improved our backup window from 12 hours down to about two hours. This has probably saved about $15,000 in FTE resources a year with the straightforward approach to administration of the system,” said a director, IT financial technology company.

[After comparing Unitrends Release 9.0 to his existing environment] “It was a no-brainer which would have the lowest administrative overhead. I wear many hats in my role, and spending multiple hours a week fixing failed backups is not a sustainable option. Unitrends 9 looks like the solution,” said a network engineer, fitness franchise.

“Unitrends has made backing up fun and easy,” said a IT professional, public school system.

“I love everything about this release. It just makes sense,” said a network administrator, medical center.

User experience extends to pricing
As part of transforming the overall customer experience, the company has made it even easier to purchase its Enterprise Backup all-in-one backup and recovery software solution. The company has rolled out a new pricing structure, offering five different editions – Free, Essentials, Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus – which all come with Unitrends’ award-winning 24/7 customer support.

“With Release 9.0, we have completely revolutionized how organizations buy, use and manage backup and recovery solutions,” said Kevin Weiss, president, CEO and COB, Unitrends. “We’ve cracked the code, eliminating complexity and cost constraints while delivering comprehensive data protection for physical, virtual and cloud environments – and the market’s initial response has been overwhelmingly positive. IT professionals get easy-to-use, best-in-class solutions that also liberate them to recover much more than just data.“