Unitrends Delivering Iron-Clad DR Assurance

Unitrends, Inc. is offering an unequivocal DR Assurance to customers.

With Unitrends’ new hybrid cloud DR as a Service (DRaaS) offering, which utilizes its ReliableDR, Unitrends Enterprise Backup and Bridge technologies, the company now provides an automated BC solution that guarantees recovery of entire IT infrastructures in the cloud within hours of a declared disaster.

DRaaS Meets Recovery Orchestration and Assurance
Unitrends is known for its portfolio of virtual and physical backup and recovery appliances and software that enable CDP on-premise and instant recovery of environments ranging from physical servers to VMWare and Hyper-V VMs to converged fabrics such as Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) servers.

Its new hybrid cloud DRaaS offering enables customers to perform on-site backups with instant recovery of physical and virtual environments and then continuously replicate their data, systems and applications to the cloud through the company’s No Limits cloud service. In the event of a disaster or catastrophic failure, live VMs and physical systems are instantly spun up within the same cloud for complete recovery of entire IT infrastructures. This recovery allows customers to prevent downtime and ensure BC.

ReliableDR, Unitrends Enterprise Backup and Unitrends Bridge, in combination with the company’s hybrid cloud DRaaS offering, provide customers with iron-clad DR Assurance SLA guarantees. Leveraging these technologies, customers can instantaneously spin up VMware VMs and provide DR testing, governance and compliance. Customers are able to test recovery policies every day and quantify their recovery SLA requirements – resulting in a precise calculation of the time it will take to get back in business.

“We’ve combined several proven technologies into a unified and federated cloud offering,” said Mark Campbell, Unitrends’ chief strategy and technology officer. “Unitrends empowers customers with the ability to orchestrate recovery processes to meet application recovery point objectives, RTOs and SLAs. The result is audit and compliance proof to meet regulatory and legal requirements, 100% DR Assurance, and peace of mind that mission-critical applications are protected and can be run from the cloud when needed.“

New DRaaS offering includes:

Annual or monthly subscription rates
On-premise appliances ranging from 1TB to 97TB, or software virtual appliance options for fast instant recovery of physical and VMs
Unitrends’ archiving hardware and software capabilities
Installation and cloud seeding services
No Limits cloud storage, which provides continuous replication in the cloud up to the limit of the physical appliance or virtual appliance tier
DRaaS ‘white glove’ service, which assists customers through a DR event by helping them spin up infrastructure within hours to ensure BC
DR Assurance through ReliableDR product for disaster recover testing, governance and compliance (available for an additional fee)
24×7, Platinum Support
Next business day shipment of replacement in the event of a hardware failure
Simple trade-in policy to upgrade to higher storage tiers and appliance replacements

“While backup has become much easier over the years, recovery remains a complex process, especially for small and mid-sized enterprises that don’t have the budget or technical expertise to build a second data center,” continued Campbell. “This new DRaaS offering simplifies and automates recovery, and unlike competitive approaches that simply throw customers a lifeboat by failing over to another location when a disaster occurs, gives organizations the tools to absolutely guarantee BC.“

Pricing for Unitrends’ No Limits cloud and DRaaS offerings ranges from 18 cents/GB/month to 32 cents/GB/month. Hybrid cloud DRaaS offering includes a local appliance, all necessary services, and the ability to replicate and spin up VMs in the cloud. Customers can add additional VMs for a fee. DR Assurance services through ReliableDR are available for $50/VM/ month.