Unitrends - Product
Company: Unitrends, Burlington, MA
Entry Submitted By: Davies Murphy Group
Company Description: Unitrends is a leader in enterprise- level cloud recovery. The company’s portfolio of virtual, physical and cloud solutions provides adaptive protection for organizations globally. With the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership, Unitrends’ offerings are backed by a customer support team that consistently achieves a 98 percent satisfaction rating.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Hardware - Storage
Nomination Title: Unitrends Recovery-Series Family
Tell the story about this nominated product or service (up to 650 words). Describe its function, features, benefits, and performance to date.
In January 2015, Unitrends, a leader in enterprise-level cloud recovery, launched the next-generation of its Recovery-Series family of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs). With this new portfolio of physical appliances, which includes 11 models that scale from 1 terabyte (TB) to 97 TB of raw storage, Unitrends achieved three significant milestones:
• It set a new standard in backup and recovery performance with tiered flash storage.
• It made cloud adoption much more affordable for companies of all sizes.
• It became the first to offer 6 TB enterprise drives in mid-range PBBA offerings for increased capacity.
Tiered Flash Storage Enhances Performance
With the next-generation Recovery-Series family, Unitrends brings the value of flash storage – at new unprecedented price points – to all appliances ranging from 1U and above. Tiered flash storage delivers improved backup performance, faster restore and disaster recovery processes, and greater scalability and flexibility. Additionally, customers now have the ability to implement policies around flash cache usage to optimize performance as data grows and prevent performance degradation, even as appliances age.
The addition of tiered flash storage, along with a number of other product enhancements (e.g., upgrades to the hardware’s central processing unit and advancements in its memory and RAID), has resulted in unrivaled backup and disaster recovery performance both locally and in the cloud, including:
• A 300 percent improvement in backup processing time
• A 300 percent improvement in recovery point objectives (RPOs)
• A 125 percent improvement in recovery time objectives (RTOs)
• A 200 percent improvement in local archiving
Affordable Cloud Adoption
The Unitrends Recovery-Series family now caters to organizations of all sizes. The product line features three new low-cost physical appliances for small businesses and two new 3U form factor appliances, along with a 4U model, for enterprises with high-volume storage needs. Small businesses with a modest IT budget can purchase the Recovery-201 desktop appliance, or the Recovery-602 or Recovery-603 1U half-height rack appliances. Companies with large storage requirements can choose from two new 3U appliances – the Recovery-933S, which includes 37 TB of raw storage, or the Recovery-936S, featuring 73 TB of raw storage – or the 4U 943S appliance with 97 TB of raw storage.
Additionally, Unitrends is making hybrid cloud adoption more affordable than ever by offering its No Limits Cloud™ service to Recovery-Series customers at price points suitable for entry-level companies. The No Limits Cloud replication service, along with the company’s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering, comprise the Unitrends Cloud™, which is augmented with recovery assurance for vSphere and Hyper-V environments.
6 TB Drives Boost Storage Capacity
For any business or institution, the amount of data being generated is increasing at an exponential rate, and thus, the amount of information that needs to be stored and protected is growing dramatically. Unitrends offers companies increased capacity through 6 TB storage drives in select appliances, which is unheard of in mid-range PBBA offerings.
Customer Support is Priority No. 1
Unitrends is also leading the industry in investment protection by offering a unique “hardware forever pledge,” which gives customers a free hardware upgrade every three years when they purchase at least a three-year support contract. The Recovery-Series Pledge program gives customers peace of mind that they’ll receive the latest technology and benefit from greater capacity to support rapid data growth over the years.
Even with its rapidly growing customer base, Unitrends’ customer support team consistently maintains a satisfaction rating exceeding 98 percent. The company always makes customer support its No. 1 priority, as evidenced by its corporate philosophy: no matter how effective its technology is, the people behind it are the company’s most powerful asset.
Unitrends’ next-generation Recovery-Series family has revolutionized the PBBA market. The combination of its proven technology, affordability and unrivaled customer support truly makes IT admins’ lives easier and enables companies to focus on their business rather than their backup2.
In bullet-list form, briefly summarize up to ten (10) of the chief features and benefits of the nominated product or service.
• All-in-one integrated appliances with faster central processing unit clock speeds, AES-NI hardware encryption and increased I/O bandwidth.
• First integrated appliances (1U and larger) to include solid-state drives.
• Recovery assurance including the industry’s only Windows virtual machine and physical server instant recovery capability coupled with hypervisor-level instant recovery and auditing via the ReliableDR™ add-on.
• Virtualization, deep virtualization, physical and unified compute protection for over 100 versions of applications, operating systems, servers and storage.
• Unitrends Bridge™ converts physical systems to virtual systems in a single click to external virtualization hosts.
• Unified Bare Metal™, a one-pass dissimilar bare metal capability that performs bare metal and granular file-level backups.
• Optional Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) Network-attached Storage (NAS) protection provides enhanced storage integration for EMC and NetApp NAS devices.
• Cloud-empowered disaster recovery/business continuity via the Unitrends Cloud.
• Granular disaster recovery via local archiving.
• Predictive analytics monitor and predict hardware/software failures before they occur.
Unitrends Unveils Next-Generation Physical Backup and Recovery Appliances with Tiered Flash Storage
