Item: Unitrends
Rating: 8
Author: Joshua Blair

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently implement Unitrends as our Disaster Recovery equipment for our entire organization for our critical systems. This includes our phone system, servers, and user data. We use Unitrends on-prem equipment which backs us that data to the cloud.

Pros and Cons

Great support when needed.
Once installed, you don't have to constantly manage it.
Easy to restore data from backup.

Pricing could be better for education.

Return on Investment

Unitrends has only had a positive impact on our business objectives so far, I don't have any negatives on it at this time.

Key Insights

Do you think Unitrends delivers good value for the price?

Yes

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?

Yes

Alternatives Considered

Before Unitrends we were paired with a local service that would backup our data off-site in a different physical location, but we have since discontinued that service. With Unitrends I've been able to monitor our daily backups when needed and can rest easy at night knowing that if there is a problem it will email me immediately. So far, my backups have been running smoothly and automated without any issues.

Likelihood to Recommend

I feel like Unitrends could fit in well in many different scenarios except for extremely large backups - closer to the range of like Terabytes or Petabytes. It is very scalable and I feel it does very well in small environments.

Unitrends for Education

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery