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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Unitrends

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AThe 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

    Veeam Backup for AWS

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AVeeam® delivers native, automated AWS backup and disaster recovery to protect and manage Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon EFS and Amazon VPC data. Veeam states it is built with simplicity, scalability, savings and security in mind, so users can eliminate the risk of data loss for AWS services.

    $40

    per year instance

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    UnitrendsVeeam Backup for AWS
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    Pricing Offerings
    UnitrendsVeeam Backup for AWS
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    UnitrendsVeeam Backup for AWS
    Considered Both Products
    Kaseya
    No answer on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Chose Veeam Backup for AWS
    The cost has been better that other cloud storage options. Also, the flexibility to run on various hardware and flexibility to store in various locations has been a big selling point. Unitrends was easier to setup and manage as hardware was included. But, with knowledgeable …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Backup for AWS
    We had FTEs with experience on Veeam versus Unitrends Data Center and Backup Recovery platforms, so all things being equal, we choose Veeam.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    170 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    112 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    164 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    102 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    178 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    114 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    154 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    156 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    97 Answers
    Features
    UnitrendsVeeam Backup for AWS
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Unitrends and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    Unitrends
    7.5
    360 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    8.3
    79 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Universal recovery6.8302 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.7290 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Recovery verification7.3288 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Business application protection6.5262 Ratings8.169 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.0268 Ratings8.276 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.3338 Ratings8.074 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud6.5213 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.0326 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Snapshots7.3243 Ratings8.371 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.37 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Management dashboard6.17 Ratings8.673 Ratings
    Platform support9.07 Ratings8.671 Ratings
    Retention options7.57 Ratings8.170 Ratings
    Encryption8.36 Ratings7.870 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Unitrends and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    Unitrends
    -
    Ratings
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    8.2
    82 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings9.075 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings8.975 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings7.062 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings7.173 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings7.938 Ratings
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    Score6.5 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    UnitrendsVeeam Backup for AWS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (372 ratings)
    8.9
    (115 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (25 ratings)
    7.2
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    6.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (106 ratings)
    Performance
    5.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (23 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.7
    (12 ratings)
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    3.8
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    UnitrendsVeeam Backup for AWS
    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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    Veeam Software
    I like the idea of using this product for backups and cold storage. This allows for long retention times and a very low cost. The ability to quickly restore and the efficiency of all the products involved. I haven't come across scenarios where it isn't appropriate. I don't have a lot of experience so for me, it works well in my cases.
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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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    Veeam Software
    • Veeam Backup for AWS provides a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution for AWS workloads.
    • It's very easily integrated with the AWS cloud.
    • The Simple and intuitive user interface of Veeam Backup for AWS makes it easy to set up and manage backups for AWS instances.
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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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    Veeam Software
    • We have never managed to use Veeam for Azure or GCP. It works well with AWS.
    • A client needed a multi-cloud DR solution management but we had a security issue and could find a solution from Veeam Backup for AWS.
    • Usually, you need a dedicated resource to monitor when the number of workloads is high. That adds to the cost.
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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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    Veeam Software
    We have been using Veeam Backup for AWS for our cloud hosted solutions for the last several years and will continue to do so. The ease of use and available support staff make the learning curve for use nearly flat in our case and having Veeam Backup for on-premise workloads makes the decision easy.
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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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    Veeam Software
    The UI and the integration is good with the product. so far
    has not encountered any major challenges while using the UI. of course, this is
    user perspective. Few users suggested some different view that it should be
    change father should have some different options but overall the feedback about
    UI is positive and no major issues encountered by using the UI or forsake of
    this usability.
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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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    Veeam Software
    Veeam Backup has never failed me, whenever we have needed to recover data it has worked flawlessly. It is highly available and I do not know of of a situation where our business has needed Veeam Backup fo AWS and has not been able to access or use it in some way.
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    Performance
    Kaseya
    The hardware is adequate and speedy. The user interface responds quickly. Backups complete quickly.
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    Veeam Software
    We have not really noticed much difference and only notice it when doing work afterhours with our veeam being backed up. However, this is not the case as we do not do this often and hence we don't really have any real challenges for performance issues. Overall, we find that the performance is pretty good
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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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    Veeam Software
    One of the best and leading backup solution with central management for all Virtual Servers, Physical servers and Application level backup. Migrated from distributed backup solution running at each site to central VEEAM solution which has reduced overhead of backup administrator and improves the backup performance. Veeam team is very supportive in solution design, taken care of all our requirements and provided the cost effective solution.
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    In-Person Training
    Kaseya
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We had only one due to the pandemic, but we remember really enjoying the help. Someone came to our site and walked us through the process and we had lots of time to ask questions and got really helpful solutions and tips and tricks to make sure that staff would understand and learn how to use it
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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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    Veeam Software
    The training provided online was good. The training was restrictive to users but was content was good and informative. The information provided was relevent and flow was maintained well. The Question and answers were good and supported well. Need to have more material provided with the training and will support users to adopt train the trainer approach.
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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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    Veeam Software
    We were pretty happy with our implementation as it was simple to deploy and we followed the technical guide online with out much technical assistance from vendor support. We had also tested and streamlined a process based on our own documentation for our own company which was simple to follow overall for deploying into AWS for future instances
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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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    Veeam Software
    I had looked at N2WS Backup & Recovery backup and disaster recovery solution for AWS environments. But while it provides similar backup and recovery capabilities as Veeam Backup for AWS, it lacks some of the advanced features such as instant VM recovery, file-level recovery, and integration with Veeam Backup & Replication.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Kaseya
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Overall, we pretty happy with the way it is contracted and the pricing structure. However, as stated we got it on promotion so we wont know until what it is after the 3 years but at this stage we are pretty happy with the product and the pricing from the commercial aspect
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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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    Veeam Software
    We have using this solution since 2020. In that moment we had four Host Linux and today we have forty vm Linux and Windows. The solution work fine as with few vm as multiples vm. The backup operators lovely this feacture, because keep simple his duties. Finally, we use the same solution for AWS, Azure or onpremise. This is great characteristic for skill transfer over backup team!
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    Professional Services
    Kaseya
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Generally satisfied
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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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    Veeam Software
    • The only thing is that you have to make sure you understand your AWS costs if your retention periods are not kept under control.
    • ROI is hard to prove until the moment you need to restore your workload.
    • Time-saving is something that comes to mind. Before Veeam, we used to spend/waste a lot of time verifying and testing our backup and restore. Veeam makes it easy with its SureBackup technology.
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    ScreenShots

    Veeam Backup for AWS Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview page detailing high-level information like alarms, protected instances, policies, and session information.Screenshot of Policies page detailing available policies, status and sessions log.Screenshot of Estimated monthly costs in policy wizard for snapshots, replicas, backups, traffic and transactions for machines in a policy.Screenshot of File Level Recovery, where individual files and folders can be searched and browsed for granular recovery.