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{{Infobox company
| name = Unitrends Corporation
| name = Unitrends Corporation
| logo =file:UNI_Logo_CMYK_K.png
| logo = file:UNI_Logo_CMYK_K.png
| type = Private
| type = Private
| key_people =Paul Brady (CEO), Mark Campbell (CTO)
| key_people = Paul Brady (CEO)
| industry = [[Information technology]]
| industry = [[Information technology]]
| products = [[Backup]] and [[Disaster Recovery]] Appliances and Related Products
| products = [[Backup]] and [[Disaster Recovery]] Appliances and Related Products
| operating_income =
| operating_income =
| net_income =
| net_income =
| num_employees =
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| foundation = 1989
| foundation = 1989
| location = [[Burlington, MA]], United States
| location = [[Burlington, MA]], United States
| homepage =
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'''Unitrends Inc.''' is a US-based company specializing in backup and business continuity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unitrends.com|title=Unitrends Enterprise Backup Solution - Home|website=www.unitrends.com|access-date=2017-01-11}}</ref> The company’s portfolio of virtual, physical, and cloud solutions provides adaptive protection and network-based [[disk-to-disk]], [[vertically integrated]] [[Backup and Disaster Recovery appliance]]s for data protection and [[disaster recovery]].<ref>[http://www.unitrends.com/company_about_unitrends.html Unitrends: Company: About Unitrends]</ref>
'''Unitrends Inc., a Kaseya company,''' is a US-based company specializing in backup and business continuity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unitrends.com|title=Unitrends Enterprise Backup Solution - Home|website=www.unitrends.com|access-date=2017-01-11}}</ref> The company’s portfolio of virtual, physical, and cloud solutions provides adaptive protection and network-based [[disk-to-disk]], [[vertically integrated]] [[Backup and Disaster Recovery appliance]]s for data protection and [[disaster recovery]].<ref>[https://www.unitrends.com/about Unitrends: Company: About Unitrends]</ref>


==Products==
==Products==
Unitrends produces a number of physical appliances ranging from small desktop backup appliances to large rack-mounted backup appliances. Unitrends also produces virtual appliances for VMware and Hyper-V marketed as Unitrends Backup [http://www.unitrends.com/products/enterprise-backup-software]. The physical appliances typically consist of some level of redundant components; most notably [[RAID]] in the form of [[RAID 1]], [[RAID 6]], and [[RAID 10]].<ref>[http://www.unitrends.com/appliance_overview.html Unitrends: Appliance: Appliance Overview]</ref> These appliances have a “personality” that allows each to perform either on-premises backup, off-premises disaster recovery, or through a technology known as cross-vaulting (a form of [[Replication (computing)|replication]]) an appliance may concurrently perform on-premises backup and off-premises disaster recovery.<ref>[http://www.unitrends.com/cloud-backup-vaulting-service.html Unitrends: Vault2Cloud: Vaulting]</ref> Unitrends also offers a multi-tenant public [[cloud]] based service that the company calls “Unitrends Cloud.” The company states that Unitrends Cloud is based on its previous product offering using its backup appliances to perform off-premises disaster recovery in a single-tenant private cloud deployment methodology.<ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/prnewswire/press_releases/national/South_Carolina/2010/03/16/CL71202Unitrends Launches New Cloud-Based Rapid Recovery Service]</ref>
Unitrends produces a number of physical appliances ranging from small desktop backup appliances to large rack-mounted backup appliances. Unitrends also produces virtual appliances for VMware and Hyper-V marketed as Unitrends Backup [http://www.unitrends.com/products/enterprise-backup-software]. The physical appliances typically consist of some level of redundant components; most notably [[RAID]] in the form of [[RAID 1]], [[RAID 6]], and [[RAID 10]].<ref>[https://www.unitrends.com/products/recovery-series-backup-appliances Unitrends: Appliance: Appliance Overview]</ref> The larger appliances also have tiered flash storage in the form of SSD drives<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitrends.com/wp-content/uploads/Recovery-Series-Backup-Appliances-DataSheet.pdf|title=Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance Data Sheet|last=|first=|date=02/13/2019|website=Unitrends|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>. These appliances have a “personality” that allows each to perform either on-premises backup, off-premises disaster recovery, or through a technology known as cross-vaulting (a form of [[Replication (computing)|replication]]) an appliance may concurrently perform on-premises backup and off-premises disaster recovery.<ref>[http://www.unitrends.com/cloud-backup-vaulting-service.html Unitrends: Vault2Cloud: Vaulting]</ref> Unitrends also offers a multi-tenant public [[cloud]] based service that the company calls “Unitrends Cloud.” The company states that Unitrends Cloud is based on its previous product offering using its backup appliances to perform off-premises disaster recovery in a single-tenant private cloud deployment methodology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitrends.com/solutions/cloud-backup-solutions|title=Unitrends Cloud Solutions|last=|first=|date=02/13/19|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
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Converged (Cisco UCS)
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==Technology==
==Technology==
Unitrends uses file- and image-based backup techniques coupled with storage-based and in-flight [[encryption]], [[Data compression|compression]] and [[data deduplication]]. The technology supports Bare-Metal restore as well as file-based recovery.<ref>[http://www.unitrends.com/appliance_overview.html Unitrends: Appliance: Appliance Overview<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Unitrends supports a form of [[disk staging]] in what it terms as D2D2x (Disk-to-Disk-to-Any) where “x” can be a disk, a tape, a private single-tenant cloud, or a public multi-tenant cloud.<ref>[http://www.unitrends.com/weblog/index.php/2010/03/14/lto5-lto-5-d2t-d2d-d2d2x-disk-to-disk-backup/ LTO-5, D2T, D2D, and D2D2x Backup<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The company attempts to sell its support of storage, operating system, and application heterogeneity and claims that it supports over 100 versions of operating systems and applications.<ref>[http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs011910-story01.html Unitrends delivers backup simplicity with D2D appliances<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Unitrends states that it uses a [[web 2.0]] user interface that allows it to manage from one to hundreds of its appliances in a single pane of glass.<ref>[http://www.unitrends.com/weblog/index.php/2010/03/14/lto5-lto-5-d2t-d2d-d2d2x-disk-to-disk-backup/ Colocube and Unitrends Partner on Cloud DR Service<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Products are available through a network of dealers and value added resellers.
Unitrends uses file- and image-based backup techniques coupled with storage-based and in-flight [[encryption]], [[Data compression|compression]], [[data deduplication]], and ransomware detection. The technology supports Bare-Metal restore as well as file-based recovery.<ref>[https://www.unitrends.com/products/recovery-series-backup-appliances Unitrends: Appliance: Appliance Overview<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Unitrends supports a form of [[disk staging]] in what it terms as D2D2x (Disk-to-Disk-to-Any) where “x” can be a disk, a tape, a private single-tenant cloud, or a public multi-tenant cloud.<ref>[https://www.unitrends.com/solutions/long-term-data-file-retention LTO-5, D2T, D2D, and D2D2x Backup<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The company attempts to sell its support of storage, operating system, and application heterogeneity and claims that it supports over 250 versions of operating systems and applications.<ref>[[Unitrends Interoperability & Compatibility Matrix]][http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs011910-story01.html <!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Unitrends states that it uses a [[web 2.0]] user interface that allows it to manage from one to hundreds of its appliances in a single pane of glass.<ref>Enterprise Backup Scalability[http://www.unitrends.com/weblog/index.php/2010/03/14/lto5-lto-5-d2t-d2d-d2d2x-disk-to-disk-backup/ <!-- Bot generated title -->][https://www.unitrends.com/features/enterprise-backup-scalability]</ref> Products are available through a network of dealers and value added resellers.


==History==
==History==
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Since its inception in the mid-1980s, Unitrends Software Corporation has been at the forefront of backup and crash-recovery technology.{{cn|date=July 2018}} The first with a software [[solution]] for system crashes, the company today provides a comprehensive set of tools to help manage and protect business-critical data while providing 100 percent data availability.{{cn|date=July 2018}}
Since its inception in 1989<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitrends.com/blog/the-history-of-unitrends|title=The History of Unitrends|last=|first=|date=10/15/2013|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>, Unitrends Software Corporation has been at the forefront of backup and crash-recovery technology. The first with a software solution for system crashes, the company today provides a comprehensive set of tools to help manage and protect business-critical data while providing 100 percent data availability. Unitrends originated from a sole proprietorship called Medflex, which was founded in 1985 by [[Steve W. Schwartz, M.D.]]<ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=5742156&privcapId=136864914 Bloomberg: Steve Schwartz]</ref> to help fund medical missions. The first product, CTAR (Compressing Tape Archiver), was originally developed to handle the backup problems Schwartz encountered in his own medical office. After perfecting the program, it was sold commercially.
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In 1988, Unitrends developed the first complete crash-recovery product for [[Santa Cruz Operation]]<ref>[[Santa Cruz Operation]]</ref>’s XENIX systems originally called Jet RestoreEase. Unitrends supported additional operating systems for SCO such as OpenServer and UnixWare. Unitrends started as a stand-alone Unix backup software company and provided BareMetal recovery for platforms like the SCO offerings. BareMetal was later ported to SCO Unix and renamed System Crash Air-Bag. This popular software package allowed full recovery from a system crash within 18 minutes or less. From 1988 to 1991, 10 other software products were written for the XENIX and Unix environments and in 1999, Unitrends released their Backup Professional client/server backup software. In September 2002, Unitrends recruited a major client and shipped backup appliances to Toshiba Machine Co. of America. The list of solutions shipped to Toshiba consisted of 1U 40, 80, 120, and 160 GB. Come November, a line of 2U appliances was introduced, offering 360 and 540 GB options. Unitrends, has held a variety of locations during its existence. Initially based out of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, headquarters were relocated further inland to Columbia in November 2003 while support and development remained on the coast until 2005. In 2014, headquarters were moved again to [[Burlington, Massachusetts]].<ref>[http://www.unitrends.com/company_contact_us.html Unitrends: Company: Contact Us<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> where they remain today.
Unitrends originated from a sole proprietorship called Medflex, which was founded in 1985 by [[Steve W. Schwartz, M.D.]]<ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/people/1957612-steve-w-schwartz]</ref> to help fund medical missions. The first product, CTAR (Compressing Tape Archiver), was originally developed to handle the backup problems Schwartz encountered in his own medical office. After perfecting the program, it was sold commercially.
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In 1988, Unitrends developed the first complete crash-recovery product for [[Santa Cruz Operation]]<ref>[[Santa Cruz Operation]]</ref>’s XENIX systems originally called Jet RestoreEase. Unitrends supported additional operating systems for SCO such as OpenServer and UnixWare. Unitrends started as a stand-alone Unix backup software company and provided BareMetal recovery for platforms like the SCO offerings. BareMetal was later ported to SCO Unix and renamed System Crash Air-Bag. This popular software package allowed full recovery from a system crash within 18 minutes or less. From 1988 to 1991, 10 other software products were written for the XENIX and Unix environments and in 1999, Unitrends released their Backup Professional client/server backup software. In September 2002, Unitrends recruited a major client and shipped backup appliances to Toshiba Machine Co. of America. The list of solutions shipped to Toshiba consisted of 1U 40, 80, 120, and 160 GB. Come November, a line of 2U appliances was introduced, offering 360 and 540 GB options.
Unitrends, has held a variety of locations during its existence. Initially based out of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, headquarters were relocated further inland to Columbia in November 2003 while support and development remained on the coast until 2005. In 2014, headquarters were moved again to [[Burlington, Massachusetts]].<ref>[http://www.unitrends.com/company_contact_us.html Unitrends: Company: Contact Us<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> where they remain today.


==Growth and Acquisition==
==Growth and Acquisition==
On October 31, 2013, Unitrends was acquired by [[Insight Venture Partners]],<ref>[[Insight Venture Partners]]</ref> a large global private equity and venture capital firm. Shortly after this acquisition, Unitrends obtained PHD Virtual on December 16, adding the resume of this virtual backup and disaster recovery solution innovator to its own. Unitrends acquired another company on May 29, 2014, taking over Australian-based Yuruware, another innovator of data protection technology who had served companies such as Openstack and Amazon Web Services.{{cn|date=July 2018}}
On October 31, 2013, Unitrends was acquired by [[Insight Venture Partners]],<ref>[[Insight Venture Partners]]</ref> a large global private equity and venture capital firm. Shortly after this acquisition, Unitrends obtained PHD Virtual on December 16, 2013, adding the resume of this virtual backup and disaster recovery solution innovator to its own. Unitrends acquired another company on May 29, 2014, taking over Australian-based Yuruware, another innovator of data protection technology who had served companies such as Openstack and Amazon Web Services. On May 3, 2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kaseya.com/press-release/kaseya-merges-with-leading-all-in-one-mid-market-enterprise-and-msp-backup-provider-unitrends/|title=Kaseya Merges with Leading All-in-One Mid-Market Enterprise and MSP Backup Provider, Unitrends|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>, Unitrends merged with Kaseya, the leading provider of complete IT infrastructure management solutions for managed service providers (MSPs) and mid-market enterprises (MME).


==Partner Programs==
==Partner Programs==
Unitrends offers partners program for resellers and MSPs, currently working with thousands of companies from across the globe.{{cn|date=July 2018}}
Unitrends offers partners program for resellers and MSPs, currently working with thousands of companies from across the globe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kaseya.com/press-release/kaseya-merges-with-leading-all-in-one-mid-market-enterprise-and-msp-backup-provider-unitrends/|title=Kaseya Merges with Leading All-in-One Mid-Market Enterprise and MSP Backup Provider, Unitrends|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>


==2018==
==2019==
The executive and operational management of Unitrends include:
The executive and operational management of Unitrends include:
* Paul Brady,<ref>http://www.unitrends.com</ref> President/CEO
* Paul Brady,<ref>https://www.unitrends.com/management-team</ref> CEO
*John O'Donnell, CFO
* Mark Campbell, CTO<ref>[http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/people/unitrends-dr-mark-campbell-coo Mark Campbell COO of Unitrends<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* Mark Jordan, CTO


==About Unitrends==
==About Unitrends==
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==Awards==
==Awards==


*2018 Storage Magazine/SearchStorage Products of the Year - Bronze <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/feature/Unitrends-Recovery-Series-Gen-8-backup-appliances|title=Unitrends Recovery Series Gen 8 backup appliances|website=SearchDataBackup|language=en|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
*DCIG Virtual Server Backup Software Guide 2014-2015 Best in Class-Ranked #1 {{cn|date=July 2018}}
*2018 Ransomware Protection Company of the Year - Storage Awards<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.storage-awards.com/|title=The Storage Awards|website=www.storage-awards.com|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
*2015 Business Solutions’ Best Channel Vendors 2015-Recognized{{cn|date=July 2018}}
*2018 Gold Stevie Winner: Customer Service - Software<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitrends.com/blog/unitrends-customer-support-team-again-wins-gold-silver-stevie-awards|title=Unitrends Wins 2018 Gold Stevie Award for Customer Service|last=Bullman|first=Brooke|date=2018-03-19|website=www.unitrends.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
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*CRN Tech Innovators Award 2014-Honorable Mention{{cn|date=July 2018}}
*2018 Silver Stevie Winner: Customer Service - Hardware<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitrends.com/blog/unitrends-customer-support-team-again-wins-gold-silver-stevie-awards|title=Unitrends Wins 2018 Gold Stevie Award for Customer Service|last=Bullman|first=Brooke|date=2018-03-19|website=www.unitrends.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
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*Inc. 500/5000 of 2014-Ranked #1010{{cn|date=July 2018}}
*2017-18 DCIG Cloud Data Protection Appliance Buyer's Guide - Most Recommended<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitrends.com/confirm/2018-data-protection-buyers-guide|title=DCIG's 2017 Integrated Backup Appliance Buyer's Guide|website=www.unitrends.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
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*Deloitte’s 2014 Technology Fast 500-Ranked #198{{cn|date=July 2018}}
*Unitrends CEO Paul Brady Named One of USA's Best CEOs<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2017/11/27/salesforce-coms-marc-benioff-no-1-comparably-ranking-top-ceos/889625001/|title=Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff No. 1 in Comparably ranking of top CEOs|website=USA TODAY|language=en|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
*2017 Storage Awards Winner: Virtual Environment<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitrends.com/awards|title=Unitrends Awards - #1 All-in-One Enterprise Backup and Continuity|website=www.unitrends.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
*2017 Gold Stevie Winner: Customer Service- Hardware<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://stevieawards.com/sales/2017-stevie%C2%AE-award-winners#CustomerServiceDepartment|title=2017 Stevie® Award Winners {{!}} Stevie Awards|website=stevieawards.com|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
*2017 Silver Stevie Winner: Customer Service - Software<ref name=":0" />
*2017 People's Choice Stevie Winner: Customer Service<ref name=":0" />
*2016-17 Hybrid Cloud Backup Buyer's Guide<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitrends.com/blog/dcig-buyers-guide|title=Unitrends Demonstrates Hybrid-Cloud Leadership In New DCIG 2016-17 Hybrid-Cloud Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide {{!}}|last=LeClair|first=Dave|date=2016-10-11|website=www.unitrends.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
*2016-17 DCIG Integrated Backup Appliance - Enterprise<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitrends.com/wp-content/uploads/DCIG-2016-17-Integrated-Backup-Appliance-Buyer-s-Guide-FINAL-Plus.pdf|title=Unitrends Outclasses the Competition in the
2016-17 DCIG Integrated Backup Appliance Buyers’ Guide|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
*2016 Storage Magazine Product of the Year - Gold<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/feature/Unitrends-Recovery-Series|title=Unitrends Recovery Series|website=SearchDataBackup|language=en|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
*2016 Infotech Research Group: Backup Vendor Landscape - Champion<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitrends.com/wp-content/uploads/InfoTech-Vendor_Landscape-Virtual_Backup_Software.pdf|title=Vendor Landscape: Virtual Backup Software|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
*2016 Cloud Computing Product of the Year<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cloud-computing.tmcnet.com/viewette.aspx?u=http://cloud-computing.tmcnet.com/breaking-news/articles/417634-winners-the-2015-cloud-computing-product-the-year.htm|title=Cloud Computing|website=cloud-computing.tmcnet.com|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
*2016 10 Fastest Growing Storage Companies<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thesiliconreview.com/magazines/10-fastest-growing-storage-companies/#more-3755|title=10 Fastest Growing Storage Companies 2016|website=thesiliconreview.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
*DCIG Virtual Server Backup Software Guide 2014-2015 Best in Class-Ranked #1 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitrends.com/awards|title=Unitrends Awards - #1 All-in-One Enterprise Backup and Continuity|website=www.unitrends.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
*2015 Business Solutions’ Best Channel Vendors 2015-Recognized<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.virtualgraffiti.com/39978/unitrends-named-2015-best-channel-vendor|title=Unitrends Named 2015 Best Channel Vendor|website=Virtual Graffiti Inc|language=en|access-date=2019-02-13}}</ref>
*2015 Stevie Award Gold Winner: Hardware/Storage
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*CRN Tech Innovators Award 2014-Honorable Mention
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*Inc. 500/5000 of 2014-Ranked #1010
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*Deloitte’s 2014 Technology Fast 500-Ranked #198


Unitrends is part of [[Insight Venture Partners]] investment portfolio.<ref>[http://www.unitrends.com/company_investors.html Unitrends: Company: Investors]</ref>
Unitrends is part of [[Insight Venture Partners]] investment portfolio.<ref>[http://www.unitrends.com/company_investors.html Unitrends: Company: Investors]</ref>

Revision as of 18:03, 13 February 2019

Unitrends Corporation
Company typePrivate
IndustryInformation technology
Founded1989
HeadquartersBurlington, MA, United States
Key people
Paul Brady (CEO)
ProductsBackup and Disaster Recovery Appliances and Related Products

Unitrends Inc., a Kaseya company, is a US-based company specializing in backup and business continuity.[1] The company’s portfolio of virtual, physical, and cloud solutions provides adaptive protection and network-based disk-to-disk, vertically integrated Backup and Disaster Recovery appliances for data protection and disaster recovery.[2]

Products

Unitrends produces a number of physical appliances ranging from small desktop backup appliances to large rack-mounted backup appliances. Unitrends also produces virtual appliances for VMware and Hyper-V marketed as Unitrends Backup [4]. The physical appliances typically consist of some level of redundant components; most notably RAID in the form of RAID 1, RAID 6, and RAID 10.[3] The larger appliances also have tiered flash storage in the form of SSD drives[4]. These appliances have a “personality” that allows each to perform either on-premises backup, off-premises disaster recovery, or through a technology known as cross-vaulting (a form of replication) an appliance may concurrently perform on-premises backup and off-premises disaster recovery.[5] Unitrends also offers a multi-tenant public cloud based service that the company calls “Unitrends Cloud.” The company states that Unitrends Cloud is based on its previous product offering using its backup appliances to perform off-premises disaster recovery in a single-tenant private cloud deployment methodology.[6]

OFFERING DEPLOYS AS OR IN PROTECTS
Recovery-Series Physical Appliance Virtual (Hyper-V and VMware)

Deep Virtual (Hyper-V and VMware)

Physical (200+ Versions)

Converged (Cisco UCS)

Nutanix (AHV)

Unitrends Backup Virtual Appliance Virtual (Hyper-V and VMware)

Deep Virtual (Hyper-V and VMware)

Physical (200+ Versions)

Converged (Cisco UCS)

Nutanix (AHV)

Unitrends Cloud Public Cloud Recovery-Series

Unitrends Backup

Technology

Unitrends uses file- and image-based backup techniques coupled with storage-based and in-flight encryption, compression, data deduplication, and ransomware detection. The technology supports Bare-Metal restore as well as file-based recovery.[7] Unitrends supports a form of disk staging in what it terms as D2D2x (Disk-to-Disk-to-Any) where “x” can be a disk, a tape, a private single-tenant cloud, or a public multi-tenant cloud.[8] The company attempts to sell its support of storage, operating system, and application heterogeneity and claims that it supports over 250 versions of operating systems and applications.[9] Unitrends states that it uses a web 2.0 user interface that allows it to manage from one to hundreds of its appliances in a single pane of glass.[10] Products are available through a network of dealers and value added resellers.

History

Since its inception in 1989[11], Unitrends Software Corporation has been at the forefront of backup and crash-recovery technology. The first with a software solution for system crashes, the company today provides a comprehensive set of tools to help manage and protect business-critical data while providing 100 percent data availability. Unitrends originated from a sole proprietorship called Medflex, which was founded in 1985 by Steve W. Schwartz, M.D.[12] to help fund medical missions. The first product, CTAR (Compressing Tape Archiver), was originally developed to handle the backup problems Schwartz encountered in his own medical office. After perfecting the program, it was sold commercially. In 1988, Unitrends developed the first complete crash-recovery product for Santa Cruz Operation[13]’s XENIX systems originally called Jet RestoreEase. Unitrends supported additional operating systems for SCO such as OpenServer and UnixWare. Unitrends started as a stand-alone Unix backup software company and provided BareMetal recovery for platforms like the SCO offerings. BareMetal was later ported to SCO Unix and renamed System Crash Air-Bag. This popular software package allowed full recovery from a system crash within 18 minutes or less. From 1988 to 1991, 10 other software products were written for the XENIX and Unix environments and in 1999, Unitrends released their Backup Professional client/server backup software. In September 2002, Unitrends recruited a major client and shipped backup appliances to Toshiba Machine Co. of America. The list of solutions shipped to Toshiba consisted of 1U 40, 80, 120, and 160 GB. Come November, a line of 2U appliances was introduced, offering 360 and 540 GB options. Unitrends, has held a variety of locations during its existence. Initially based out of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, headquarters were relocated further inland to Columbia in November 2003 while support and development remained on the coast until 2005. In 2014, headquarters were moved again to Burlington, Massachusetts.[14] where they remain today.

Growth and Acquisition

On October 31, 2013, Unitrends was acquired by Insight Venture Partners,[15] a large global private equity and venture capital firm. Shortly after this acquisition, Unitrends obtained PHD Virtual on December 16, 2013, adding the resume of this virtual backup and disaster recovery solution innovator to its own. Unitrends acquired another company on May 29, 2014, taking over Australian-based Yuruware, another innovator of data protection technology who had served companies such as Openstack and Amazon Web Services. On May 3, 2018[16], Unitrends merged with Kaseya, the leading provider of complete IT infrastructure management solutions for managed service providers (MSPs) and mid-market enterprises (MME).

Partner Programs

Unitrends offers partners program for resellers and MSPs, currently working with thousands of companies from across the globe.[17]

2019

The executive and operational management of Unitrends include:

  • Paul Brady,[18] CEO
  • John O'Donnell, CFO
  • Mark Jordan, CTO

About Unitrends

Unitrends leverages high-availability hardware and software engineering, cloud economics, enterprise power with consumer-grade design, and customer-obsessed support to natively provide all-in-one enterprise backup and continuity.[19]

Awards

  • 2018 Storage Magazine/SearchStorage Products of the Year - Bronze [20]
  • 2018 Ransomware Protection Company of the Year - Storage Awards[21]
  • 2018 Gold Stevie Winner: Customer Service - Software[22]
  • 2018 Silver Stevie Winner: Customer Service - Hardware[23]
  • 2017-18 DCIG Cloud Data Protection Appliance Buyer's Guide - Most Recommended[24]
  • Unitrends CEO Paul Brady Named One of USA's Best CEOs[25]
  • 2017 Storage Awards Winner: Virtual Environment[26]
  • 2017 Gold Stevie Winner: Customer Service- Hardware[27]
  • 2017 Silver Stevie Winner: Customer Service - Software[27]
  • 2017 People's Choice Stevie Winner: Customer Service[27]
  • 2016-17 Hybrid Cloud Backup Buyer's Guide[28]
  • 2016-17 DCIG Integrated Backup Appliance - Enterprise[29]
  • 2016 Storage Magazine Product of the Year - Gold[30]
  • 2016 Infotech Research Group: Backup Vendor Landscape - Champion[31]
  • 2016 Cloud Computing Product of the Year[32]
  • 2016 10 Fastest Growing Storage Companies[33]
  • DCIG Virtual Server Backup Software Guide 2014-2015 Best in Class-Ranked #1 [34]
  • 2015 Business Solutions’ Best Channel Vendors 2015-Recognized[35]
  • 2015 Stevie Award Gold Winner: Hardware/Storage
  • CRN Tech Innovators Award 2014-Honorable Mention
  • Inc. 500/5000 of 2014-Ranked #1010
  • Deloitte’s 2014 Technology Fast 500-Ranked #198

Unitrends is part of Insight Venture Partners investment portfolio.[36]

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