Top reasons Unitrends beats Barracuda:

1. Leverage existing investment in tape/autoloader/NAS/SAN infrastructure for long-term retention and disaster recovery. And you can take advantage of previous investments in hardware; utilize tape libraries and other existing hardware to archive data.
2. Focus. Unitrends is devoted to data protection technology.
3. Continuity. Appliance will continue to operate even if the maintenance contract is not renewed. And, there is no expiration on the usability of the appliance to recover backed up or archived data and no uplift charges.
4. Retention. Appliance(s) capable of at least 90 days of local retention.
5. Single Pane of Glass management for entire portfolio.
6. Significantly better RTO with Unitrends appliances.
7. Access to interface. Barracuda requires an Internet connection to access the management interface. Without access the interface is limited.