Unitrends has announced that the next generation of their Recovery-Series family of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) is now available. The new portfolio includes 11 models that scale from 1TB to 97TB of raw storage and make cloud adoption much more affordable for companies of all sizes. With the release, Unitrends claims they are now the data-protection industry’s price/performance leader in appliances ranging from 1U and above.
Unitrends has announced that the next generation of their Recovery-Series family of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) is now available. The new portfolio includes 11 models that scale from 1TB to 97TB of raw storage and make cloud adoption much more affordable for companies of all sizes. With the release, Unitrends claims they are now the data-protection industry’s price/performance leader in appliances ranging from 1U and above.
The company’s tiered flash storage provides improved backup performance, faster restore and disaster recovery processes as well as greater scalability and flexibility. Unitrends customers can also now implement policies around flash cache usage to optimize performance as their data needs grow, which results in the prevention performance degradation; even as appliances age.
Unitrends has made a number of product enhancements that focus on performance, including upgrades to the hardware’s CPU, advancements in its memory and RAID, and improvements in compression capabilities. As a result, Unitrends indicates the following improvement details:
- 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
The new product line features three new low-cost physical appliances for small businesses and two new 3U form factor appliances in addition to a 4U model for enterprises with high-volume storage needs. Small businesses can purchase the Recovery-201 desktop appliance (roughly $1,200), or the Recovery-602 or Recovery-603 1U half-height rack appliances, which start at $4,000. Companies that have large storage requirements are given three options: the Recovery-933S (37TB of raw storage), the Recovery-936S (73TB of raw storage), or the 4U 943S appliance (97TB of raw storage).
Unitrends is also offering its No Limits Cloud service to Recovery-Series customers at price points catering to entry-level companies. The Unitrends Cloud is comprised of both the No Limits Cloud replication service and their Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering, which are enhanced with the company’s Recovery Assurance for vSphere and Hyper-V environments.
Availability
Unitrends next-generation Recovery-Series appliances are now available and can be purchased directly or through the channel. As indicated above, pricing varies by model.
Unitrends is also offering customers 20 percent off on select 2015 Recovery-Series appliances as well as the ability to obtain free hardware refreshes for life. This offer ends March 27, 2015.
Unitrends Recovery-Series Product Page
