10X Growth in Cloud Services for Unitrends

Paul Brady, Unitrends, Inc.‘s CEO reports: “We are very pleased with the results from our fiscal year 2018 and believe we are well positioned to continue our strong growth into next year.“

Company’s fiscal year 2018 ended January 31.

Highlights of the fiscal year 2018 include:

• Enterprise adoption of cloud-based data protection and recovery services is driving much of firm growth. Offering only 1-hour, contractually committed recovery SLA, Unitrends increased its number of protected DR-as-a-service machines by over 10X over the year. The firm currently protects more than 100PB of customer data in the cloud.
• Included in the overall results was a strong increase in business with enterprise-grade customers, organizations with more than $100 million in revenue. Unitrends had a 37% growth in the high-end, 9XX Recovery Series hardware appliances and attached cloud services.
• Customers continue to rate its support services at a high level. Customers service continued to earn a satisfaction rating of 98%, leading customers to increase their license and product renewal bookings at high double digit growth rates in FY18. Just last month Unitrends’ customer support team was awarded a Gold and a Silver Stevie Award for Sales and Customer Service.
• Gartner named Unitrends a Visionary in their 2017 Magic Quadrant for DR-as-a-Service as well as included the vendor in their 2017 Magic Quadrant for Backup – being the only company to have the same products recognized in both Quadrants. The firm was also featured in the Gartner Market Guide for IT Resilience and Orchestration with 9 for 9 rating on its IT Resilience capabilities.
• Unitrends announced several new alliances. Nutanix announced integration and advanced data protection for Nutanix’ Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV). This integration enables enterprise customers to reduce infrastructure costs with Nutanix’s free Acropolis hypervisor, while gaining advanced continuity and data availability with integrated backup and recovery services from Unitrends. Also announced an alliance with Scale Computing to provide advanced BC services to users of Scales’ HC3 hyperconverged platform
• Unitrends is opening new markets for its products and services. Late in FY18 it announced Unitrends MSP, a new wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to delivering BC and DR and DR as a Service products to the MSP market.
• According to the latest survey of compensation, culture and career monitoring website Comparibly, CEO Paul Brady was named one of USA’s Today’s best CEOs for small and mid-sized companies in the US.