It works, but is not the best solution on the market
March 02, 2021
It works, but is not the best solution on the market

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance
Overall Satisfaction with Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery
Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery is used as our primary backup and recovery device for all of our servers (physical/virtual VMware) across the entire organization. It is used for backup and recovery and addresses the issues of business continuity, disaster recovery, and protection from ransomware and malware. Backup jobs are scheduled to run hourly, daily, or weekly, depending on how critical it is to get the server backed up.
Pros
- It works for the most part
- Has included software for Exchange recovery
- Is compatible with the server technologies that we use
- Has dedupe and compression abilities that maximize capacity usage
Cons
- Better backup and restore IO performance
- Better upload speed performance to the Unitrends Cloud offering
- Faster software upgrade process and more stable software releases
- Cloud backup performance is pretty poor, which is why we decided not to renew it
- I spend too much time messing around with the backup system, more so than with other backup and restore products that I have used in the past
- I have generally been able to restore data when I have needed to
Do you think Unitrends delivers good value for the price?
No
Are you happy with Unitrends's feature set?
Yes
Did Unitrends live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Unitrends go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Unitrends again?
No
- Veeam Backup & Replication
I didn't choose Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery, and I wouldn't choose it on the next refresh. There are much better products that are easier to use.
In terms of pricing, Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery is fairly reasonably priced for an all-in-one backup and recovery platform. It is simple enough to use. You would probably get more bang for your buck rolling your own server and storage and running Veeam, but that would require staff time to build, manage, and maintain such a system.
In terms of pricing, Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery is fairly reasonably priced for an all-in-one backup and recovery platform. It is simple enough to use. You would probably get more bang for your buck rolling your own server and storage and running Veeam, but that would require staff time to build, manage, and maintain such a system.
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