Unitrends Connected Continuity Platform Encompasses Microsoft Azure and Office 365

Unitrends, Inc. announced three BC products.

Boomerang Dashboard
Click to enlarge

Boomerang for Microsoft Azure, Enterprise Backup for Microsoft Azure, and Cloud Backup for Office 365 enable organizations to capitalize on the agility and economics of the cloud, simplify the backup and recovery process, and gain complete confidence in the recovery point to come.

These offerings enable company’s customers to benefit from the global scale of Microsoft Azure and backup data residing in Microsoft Office 365, the SaaS applications that millions of enterprises rely on for collaboration and productivity.

“BC is top of mind for our customers, as they increasingly look to the cloud for either the full solution, or to add that extra layer of protection. Also, as a result of explos, data growth, they need to keep a sharp eye on containing costs,” said Cary Warner, CMO, Aperio IT, Unitrends partner. “Unitrends offers the industry’s broadest range of continuity solutions that enables our company to meet the unique needs of each client.“

Ryan McGee, senior product marketing manager, cloud platform marketing, Microsoft Corp., said: “When it comes to protecting digital assets, organizations and service providers need cloud-based solutions they can trust. Microsoft Azure provides Unitrends with th enterprise-grade security and agilityrequired to support its customers as they look to streamline their business operations.“

“The new Unitrends products coming to the Azure Marketplace work seamlessly, giving customers full confidence in their ability to recover when systems go down,” continued McGee. “Similarly, Unitrends’ new Office 365 backup recovery makes it easy for enterprises to backup their data for Exchange Online, SharePoint and Microsoft OneDrive.“

Company’s products, available through Microsoft and firm’s resellers, help customers meet their specific requirements for protecting their digital assets and include:

• Boomerang, available for Microsoft Azure, protects VMware VMs in the cloud: Boomerang makes it fast, easy, and cost effective to replicate VMware VMs in Microsoft Azure for DR or VM migration. Boomerang 2.0, available, adds Microsoft Azure capabilities to the proven Amazon Web Services implementation, enabling users to choose between the top two hyperscale clouds with a single click. Boomerang’s ‘Pilot Light’ architecture takes full advantage of the cost-effective Azure Storage for backups-only converting their VMs to native Azure VMs when needed for DR. In the event of a system outage, one click converts backups to native Azure VMs and spins them up in minutes. One more click returns applications, data, and network configurations to the datacenter as ready-to-run VMware VMs. This approach results in Boomerang being a low cost DR solution for VMware – from software, network, and cloud usage fee perspectives. Free trial.

• Enterprise Backup for Microsoft Azure provides an extra layer of backup protection for on-premises backups, and fills the fast-growing need for complete cloud workload backups: Getting copies of backup data offsite is necessay for many enterprises who require lon-term data retention for regulatory reasons, and is critical to any DR plan. Enterprise Backup for Microsoft Azure adds an option to the company’s portfolio of cloud continuity solutions. Customers can deploy firm’s software into Microsoft Azure as an offsite target for backup copies from any company’s virtual or physical appliance. The software replicates datacenter backups in Microsoft Azure to provide data retention and BC in the face of disaster or ransomware attacks.
  To ensure continuity for cloud workloads, an often overlooked precaution, users can quickly provision Enterprise Backup from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace as a VM in Microsoft Azure. From a single, super-intuitive management console, Enterprise Backup manages backup and recovery for multiple clouds within a Microsoft Azure instance, streamlining an otherwise complex continuity challenge. availability for Enterprise Backup for Microsoft Azure is slated for early autumn.

• Cloud Backup for Office 365 provides full, automatic protection for purpose-built for Microsoft SaaS applications: Microsoft Office 365 usage is growing at 63% per year, as organizations recognize the advantage of SaaS solutions for running their businesses. However, the need to backup user data for fast recovery is not always well understood. Cloud Backup for Office 365, available this month, helps to avoid the potential loss of data and ideas due to system crashes or accidental deletions. The software provides protection for SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and OneDrive – covering emails, folders, contacts, and more – with unlimited retention. Cloud Backup for Office 365 takes snapshots multiple times daily, and enables fast, self-service restore via an intuitive user interface.