Adaptive Deduplication

Up until now, small and medium businesses that wanted deduplication had to make a choice between a high-priced dedicated appliance or software that didn't work well. With release 5, Unitrends has released something that we call Adaptive Deduplication - storage-based deduplication that is designed to work highly effectively with affordable hardware platforms.

vStorage-Based (VDDK) VMware Protection

VMware has announced that future versions of VMware won't support VCB. Unitrends will offer in release 5 a vStorage API-based VMware protector that offers direct support from our backup appliance for VMware ESXi 3.5 and ESXi 4.0 and VMware ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0.

New Disk-to-Disk-to-Disk Archiving System

A new archiving system for disk-to-disk-to-disk (D2D2D) that supports all of the features of our past archiving systems and adds significantly increased performance, appending archives, and a much more integrated, simple, and elegant user interface that is both sophisticated, powerful, and easy-to-use.

New VSS-Based SQL Agent

A new backup option for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 is available with release 5 that utilizes the VSS backup foundation Microsoft offers.

New Proactive Monitoring

Automated proactive monitoring is the latest example of our commitment to outstanding customer support. Beginning with our release 5, all of our support levels now include baseline automated proactive monitoring. Our appliances self-monitor themselves for certain early indicators of potential problems and once a day report back to our customer support center specific issues. Our customer support engineers categorize, monitor, and manage these events, flag critical events, and then as necessary open a case, call the customer, and begin the necessary steps to resolve the issue.

Red Hat 6 (Beta)

Release 5 provides network-based backup for Red Hat 6 (Beta), enabling enterprise-class data protection and backup and recovery with a backup appliance designed from the ground-up for small and medium businesses.

Ubuntu 10.4

Release 5 provides network-based backup for Ubuntu 10.4, enabling enterprise-class data protection and backup and recovery with a backup appliance designed from the ground-up for small and medium businesses.