Education

At Unitrends, we understand that schools face numerous challenges—including the protection of student data, course materials, tests and transcripts. Ensuring the rapid recovery of data and operations in the event of a system failure or natural disaster is vital. Often, IT resources are limited, and updating legacy systems to newer technologies poses a significant challenge beyond the day-to-day challenge of simply keeping up with data growth, retention and compliance policies.

Unitrends helps on both fronts, allowing educational organizations to deploy scalable and reliable disk-based solutions that rapidly and securely back up and protect not just their electronic data files, but all of the computer systems they use in their crucial day-to-day operations.

Districts and schools are faced with a convergence of challenges:

• Growing data needs
• Slow and unreliable recovery from tape
• Limited IT budgets and staffing
• Aging equipment
• Funding that is contingent on regulatory compliance
• Supporting multiple OSs - Windows, Mac, Linux, Novell, etc.
• A demanding mission to provide highly reliable systems and data protection

Fortunately, there’s help. Unitrends’ Data Protection Units™ provide local backup of files and folders, removable disks for near-line archiving, and BareMetal™ restoration of entire failed servers. Our Data Protection Vaults provide electronic media-less vaulting of critical data to remote sites for true disaster recovery protection. All were specifically designed to simplify data protection processes and reduce costs associated with data backup, recovery and storage for our education customers.

"Like many schools, St. Mary's High School was dealing with the convergence of several challenges:  growing data needs, a limited IT budget, few administrative IT staff, aging equipment and a demanding mission of providing highly reliable systems and data protection," said Ken Cheney, IT Director, St. Mary's High School, Annapolis, MD.  "Unitrends' scalable, disk-based solutions provided us with enterprise-level data protection and recovery at a cost-effective price point.  With Unitrends, we were able to meet both our budgetary and functionality requirements with a system that is simple to deploy."

“Unitrends’ data protection and disaster recovery solution is ideal for educational institutions such as ours [that have limited resources but provide crucial services],” said Fernando De Velasco, Microsoft Systems Administrator, Prosper Independent School District, Prosper, TX. “Unitrends’ solution works seamlessly with Microsoft and Novell NetWare, is simple and cost-effective to manage, and its disk-based backup and BareMetal recovery capabilities ensure that our data and systems are available when needed. With students, faculty and the community depending on our systems, I appreciate the access, availability and peace of mind that Unitrends provides.”

Simple. Fast. Safe.

Unitrends is committed to helping our education customers securely and reliably protect public and private data. These days, no agency or IT department can afford to be without a first-class solution for business continuity and disaster recovery. That's why more than 15 years ago, we began developing scalable, disk-based solutions that deliver enterprise-level data protection and features at a cost-effective price point.

Unitrends solutions deliver:

Fast, reliable back up and restoration of files and folders. All Unitrends appliances use disk-to-disk technology to provide greater speed and reliability than tape-based systems.

Rapid system restoration. Unitrends pioneered BareMetal restoration of entire failed servers, putting mission-critical systems back in business in as little as one hour instead of several days. With our BareMetal capability, we can also recover a failed system to new hardware that may not match the original system configuration, which is often necessary in a true disaster.

Offsite disaster recovery protection. All Unitrends appliances feature removable drives for near-line offsite archiving and are "Electronic Vault-Ready" to provide superior redundant protection.

Protective encryption. Unitrends InCrypt™ technology provides protective software encryption. Standards-based AES 256-bit encryption is performed automatically, offering IT administrators a solution for regulatory and agency requirements, and protecting data from unauthorized access and theft.

Overcoming Industry Challenges

All Unitrends appliances and software are specifically designed to address the challenges facing state, federal and educational organizations.

• Unitrends’ solutions go above and beyond the current requirements of regulations such as CIPA and FERPA.
  
• Unitrends is committed to staying in front of future, more stringent requirements. Through ongoing research with education users, specialists in Federal and state requirements, and data security experts, our product development initiatives will ensure that our systems continue to meet and exceed the needs of state, federal and educational organizations.