Unitrends

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Unitrends
Score 8.1 out of 10
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The Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliances are hardware developed for data backup and management. They cover enterprise backup, ransomware detection, recovery assurance, proactive monitoring, and cloud continuity into a single platform for organizations of all sizes.N/A
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Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
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Unitrends [Data Center Backup and Recovery] licensing is MUCH better than Veritas Backup Exec was, our previous backup solution. It is a cleaner install, much easier to keep current and is more logically deployed and managed. Unitrends is very much like a point and click …
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Unitrends UB software makes management of backup sets very simple, Backup Exec was incredibly difficult to manage. It was reliable, but recovery was a daunting process, it always worked, but never seemed certain.
CrashPlan is an excellent alternative for a smaller footprint, it …
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Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery provide more features than Synology DiskStation. Unlike the Synology DiskStation it has instant recovery features and can backup databases, Microsoft SQL, etc. Both are capable of deduplication and compression and can backup VMWare …
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While all of the products I evaluate could do the job and I have experience with them all, Unitrends' solution is just easier and more affordable. All solutions have negatives, but Unitrends' are so easy to live with that I had no reason to make a change. I'd also put their …
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We compared Unitrends to Barracuda and selected Unitrends based [on] total cost over a three-year period. The Barracuda product was more than double the cost over the same three-year period. Additionally, both appliances offer similar feature sets and support, but the …
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Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery's artificial intelligence plays a major role in all the appliances that run a scanning procedure during each and every backup to analyze the change logs of the files and identify if the backups are infected by
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We previously used Veritas Backup Exec for our backup solutions. It uses USB 2.0 for a backup solution, which was very slow and unreliable to use as compared to Unitrends Data Backup and Recovery. Doing the backup over the network delivers a speedy backup, which is not possible …
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I know many, many people use Veeam. And for years, there were free versions and such. For some reason, Veeam and I didn't get along well. I didn't like all the extra parts and pieces to make it work. Unitrends [Data Center Backup and Recovery] is one simple appliance. As I've …
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We recently replaced Veeam Backup and Replication with Unitrends. The change was not too cumbersome, and I feel that we are to the point now where we are getting proper backups. They both seem to do the same thing from what I can tell. They both handle backup of bare metal …
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Four years ago, Unitrends MSP was reasonable and met our needs, so we signed a 5-year contract. In my opinion, there are cheaper and just as good companies now. In hindsight, I believe we probably should have signed a shorter contract. It met a need that we had and were …
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There is no such comparison between Zerto and Unitrends MSP as the features and ease Unitrends has given us are wondrous. We can now manage our backups and can get continuous backups. Zerto lacked many such features that we needed, most above all Zerto was quite complex …
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Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery is a better backup solution than Synology DS, but much more expensive. We utilize both in our company. Synology DS has a great backup software called Active Backup for Business that is very easy to use and includes deduplication. The …
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We have not used or tested any other products. Unitrends was already in place when I was hired. We are happy with what we have in place and do not see us making any changes other than upgrading or replacing equipment that is at end of life.
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It has been years since we implemented the product, I do not have records of any other products we tested at that time.
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They are similar, Datto is a great fit for smaller businesses I feel, they have a great space in multiple sites and have custom builds for larger business. However I feel some higher end enterprise level setups require larger devices. Education is a great spot oval for …
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We have a couple more years on our contract. Since we have purchased this, there are many more choices out there. Within the next year we will do research again to determine what will best suit our needs.

We were glad to have this option when we purchased it.
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Symantec Backup Exec was the primary tool used for backups for years. We also used Veeam for some Office 365/Exchange backups. Unitrends once configured and set up works very well against the competition. Backup Exec interface was more user friendly. The search tool for …
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We previously used Backup Exec as our backup solution. It relied on USB 2.0 connections to backup data to removable proprietary hard drives that were used in a Dell removable drive system. It was very slow and unreliable compared to Unitrends. Doing the backups over the network …
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Veeam seems like a decent product which may cost a little more, Dell EMC Networker is a good product, but the interface is very clunky and difficult to navigate, while also being a much more expensive solution. I believe they are all good products. Based on reviews, …
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We have used Unitrends for quite some time and enjoy the application.
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From looking at the demo a few years back Veeam had some nice AD integrations that Unitrends lacks. However, for us the difference in pricing was too much to justify going with Veeam over Unitrends. Our main consultant does not have engineers that are familiar with Unitrends, …
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Unitrends [Data Center Backup and Recovery] has a much better UI. It's easy to navigate. Barracuda was a little pricey, and if you were to reduce your backup size under the current tier, you had to call in to get them to adjust the space requirements on the bill. They were …
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Features
Unitrends
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Unitrends
7.8
359 Ratings
4% below category average
Universal recovery7.3301 Ratings
Instant recovery8.0289 Ratings
Recovery verification8.0287 Ratings
Business application protection6.6261 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations7.9267 Ratings
Incremental backup identification8.2337 Ratings
Backup to the cloud7.3212 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression7.2325 Ratings
Snapshots8.0242 Ratings
Flexible deployment8.15 Ratings
Management dashboard8.05 Ratings
Platform support9.05 Ratings
Retention options8.15 Ratings
Encryption8.14 Ratings
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Veeam Data Platform
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Bacula Enterprise
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User Ratings
Unitrends
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(371 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(25 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(14 ratings)
Availability
6.2
(2 ratings)
Performance
5.6
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
7.9
(23 ratings)
Online Training
7.1
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.7
(12 ratings)
Configurability
7.1
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
3.8
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Unitrends
Likelihood to Recommend
Kaseya
We have a traditional stack and pretty typical needs as a manufacturer. I have used and evaluated everything out there, but the Unitrends solution fits very well and was competitively priced. I would think if it fits us, it could fit anyone like us with a similar stack.
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Pros
Kaseya
  • It has fully automated and customizable dashboards that can run with less administrative attention.
  • It should be able to run on virtual machines or be deployed as a virtual machine within MS Azure or AWS.
  • It's AI-based ransomware detection helps to understand data characteristics and alerts for ransomware attacks.
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Cons
Kaseya
  • Errors on backup jobs could be more clearly explained. As the administrator of the device for my company, I often don't know what caused an error, and can't tell from the error information what happened or caused the error.
  • Updates of the devices should have an automatic option. It takes to much time to do an update to the devices if updates haven't been maintained.
  • Shutdown and restarting the device should be available from the main UI screen to eliminate some time when doing updates or if you're doing some maintenance on the device.
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Likelihood to Renew
Kaseya
We have grown very attached to the Unitrends appliances and their use for recovery and other file restoration needs as well as data archival, data replication to other appliance and data migration to other servers or long term storage requirements. The appliances work well and the support for them is very good as well.
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Usability
Kaseya
I have never used such an easy product that is stable and scalable like Unitrends. I have been running backups for MANY years. On premise, tape, disk, cloud, you name it. Unitrends is very flexible, stable and has incredible reporting features. It's nice when management requests a report and it takes you 5 minutes to run it and dump it to PDF. How can you beat that?
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Reliability and Availability
Kaseya
The appliances have been there when we need them and have rarely if ever gone down. Hardware issues have been resolved quickly.
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Performance
Kaseya
The hardware is adequate and speedy. The user interface responds quickly. Backups complete quickly.
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Support Rating
Kaseya
They're incredible, attentive, thorough. They make sure my issue is resolved and follow up. I'm usually behind on giving them a reply or an update. They have always gone above and beyond for me, and I'll continue to do the same for them.
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Online Training
Kaseya
It was sufficient to get started. It was not super deep. We called support often to get going.
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Implementation Rating
Kaseya
The Unitrends employees involved in the installation were very friendly and knowledgeable. A certain degree of hiccups can be expected during any installation but never shook my confidence because of the friendly and knowledgeable team that was assigned to my project.
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Alternatives Considered
Kaseya
Symantec Backup Exec was the primary tool used for backups for years. We also used Veeam for some Office 365/Exchange backups. Unitrends once configured and set up works very well against the competition. Backup Exec interface was more user friendly. The search tool for exploring backups was much better than Unitrends as well. Unitrends is much faster if you need to restore an entire VM or large file folders. Also once you have Unitrends all set up, it is very low maintenance, it just works. If something fails 9/10 it will correct itself on the next backup that is scheduled to run
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Scalability
Kaseya
Once you exceed the capacity of the appliances, you have to forklift a new appliance. This is very expensive.
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Return on Investment
Kaseya
  • It has saved some deleted file server data for our business department.
  • We have lost some reports for the business department due to an overlooked setting that make the backup reports look great, but the server was not being backed up in reality.
  • Less anxiety for the IT department, we have backup plan and that is worth a lot to us.
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