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Unitrends Disaster Recovery: Vaulting Performance
Executive Summary
The three primary factors governing the implementation of disaster recovery are the characteristics of the network used to transmit the data to the remote location, the amount of data that is specified to be protected and how much that data periodically changes and the software techniques used to effectively manage the bandwidth that is marked for disaster recovery. Each is reviewed in this document with particular attention paid to the role played by Unitrends’ Secure Data Sync software that optimizes the transmission of data to the vault. Read More
Unitrends Retention Virtualization™ with SANs, NASs, and DAS
Executive Summary
Unitrends offers a subset of storage virtualization, termed retention virtualization, which enables business continuity and disaster recovery regardless of whether the physical storage resides upon a SAN, NAS, or DAS. A brief history of DAS, SAN, and NAS technologies is presented in this document. An overview of the current storage environment is presented with a focus on the various forms of virtualization being offered (storage virtualization, platform virtualization, and Unitrends’ retention virtualization) followed by a focus on how SAN plays into the current storage environment. The document concludes with an overview of the architecture of Unitrends’ retention virtualization offering. Read More
Agentless Backup: Whitewashing the Fence
Executive Summary
Agentless backup is a method some backup vendors advocate in order to transfer the costs of backup from the vendor to the customer. These costs include lowering development costs for the agentless backup provider which translates directly into increasing the operational costs for the customer by vitiating security policies, pushing a solution that forces dramatically increased network loading while offering much poorer performance characteristics, and by blurring the definition of terms so as to obscure the value of feature/functionality as well as over-promising and under-delivering. Read More
Company Focus
The Unitrends family of onsite and offsite Rapid Recovery Appliances (DPUs & DPVs) includes everything SMEs need to institute a complete recovery system so they can quickly get back in business when servers and systems fail.