Item: Unitrends
Rating: 10
Author: Heather Lange-Wilson

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it across the whole organization. This addresses disaster recovery and being able to get back up and running rather quickly, having full backups of our data, as well as differentials in between. I've used other backup at previous jobs, Unitrends is easier to understand than the previous software that I used!

Pros and Cons

Backups.
Reports.
Logs.
Ability to schedule fulls and incrementals/differentials at the same time.

Improve job calendar to be accurate.
Exchange Backups need to be able to backup / restore individual mailboxes rather than entire database.
Not much else.

Return on Investment

Improve exchange backups to be able to select which boxes get backed up/recovered individually.
Ease of use.
Worries about running out of space.

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Unitrends again?

Yes

Alternatives Considered

Honestly I don't remember what I previously used before, it has been too long of a time period since I used it. I like the interface of Unitrends, it is easy to navigate. Support is usually very prompt at getting back to me when I do have a question or problem.

Likelihood to Recommend

I haven't come across a scenario where this is less appropriate to be used in my environment. We have a lot of Hyper-V servers and seems to handle it rather well! Even when we had VMware environments it handled it rather well. The only thing that I can think of that would be a great improvement would be for exchange backups being able to backup/restore individual mailboxes rather than the entire database would be a great big benefit, especially if only one box is corrupted.

Ease of use, confidentiality assurance via encryption

Overall Satisfaction with Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery