Unitrends Adds Recovery Series MAX Up to 8TB Backup Appliances

Unitrends, Inc., a Kaseya Ltd. company, announced Recovery Series MAX appliances that give IT departments and MSPs an entire data recovery environment.

Recovery Series MAX

“Unitrends Recovery MAX represents a new power dimension over and above traditional backup and recovery appliances on the market,” said Joe Noonan, VP, product management and marketing, Unitrends. “Organizations require more power to host failed applications on a local backup appliance, while continuously protecting healthy applications both locally and in the cloud. As a result, we have super-charged this segment of the Recovery Series family.“

These appliances solve a specific business challenge for organizations that lack local recovery infrastructure. Without that infrastructure, even small outages of a single machine force more complex remote recoveries, which can increase downtime and reduce technician efficiency. Both MSPs and enterprises with distributed remote locations suffer from this challenge.

Recovery Series MAX provides data protection and recovery software, and also comes equipped with supercharged computing power and block agent recovery to enable on-the-box recovery and hosting of failed applications on site. These appliances, sized at 1-8 TB, also deliver the company’ advanced enterprise features, such as ransomware protection, proactive analytics and self-healing hardware.

This is a series of three high-powered appliances available under two different configurations – three under the firm’s brand and three under the firm’s MSP brand. They are designed to handle use cases requiring much more compute power than traditional appliances. Equipped with up to 300% more compute capacity, and up to eight times more memory and built-in, dual 10GbE networking ports, these new members of the Recovery Series family are equipped to host failed-over applications, run sandboxes for software testing, and provide performance backup and recovery.

“We need to monitor and manage backup and recovery services for our clients simultaneously and across multiple organizations,” said Ted Clouser, president and CEO, PCA Technology Solutions, Inc. based in Little Rock, AR. “There are times when the appliances are called to support more than one function at a time. Unitrends Recovery MAX appliances tackle all of these challenges at the same time with little latency, all while continuing to perform their standard backup schedules without missing a beat. It’s another step in the right direction for an already phenomenal company and solution.“

Recovery MAX family members come standard with features normally reserved for backup and recovery appliances ten times their size. Every appliance comes with Xeon D-1541 processors, built-in, dual 1GbE and 10GbEt ports, 128GB SSD cards, and 32 or 64GB of memory. Storage options include two, four or 8TB of usable capacity. All of Recovery Series backup and recovery functionality is included in Recovery MAX, including automatic ransomware detection, WAN optimization technologies such as global adoptive deduplication, encryption and bandwidth throttling, and 24X7 coverage by the firm’s customer support.

In addition to the 15 original models, Recovery MAX brings the total number of Recovery Series hardware appliances to 18. They are available in models from 2 to 120TB, sized to meet a range of backup needs. All 18 models include features such as disk density that enables the appliances to store 20% more data, predictive analytics to provide performance resiliency, self-healing storage, and the ability to manage over 10,000 devices from a single user interface.

All members of the Recovery Series family include pre-integrated software that streamlines data transfer from on-premises to the cloud for archiving and DR services. To make the move to the cloud even easier, the company offers up to two years of free cloud storage and DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) with the purchase of a five-year contract.