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Solution Brief: Data Protection Solution for Insurance

"Big data can be an incredible competitive differentiator for insurance companies—or could be the source of their demise, if they allow other businesses to gain the upper hand in the use of analytics and data to better manage and price risk and create new, more profitable products."
This warning from Insurance and Technology online comes coupled with the sobering news that insurance businesses are experiencing a "disconnect between our ability to create, collect and store data — and our capability to thoroughly process and exploit it."
Have you got your IT covered?

Solution Brief: Bare Metal Recovery in the Age of Virtualization

It’s a brave new world.

Are you still using a tape backup solution with the hope that it will protect your business from data loss?

If so, stop for a moment and take a look at what you’re missing...

Solution Brief: Data Protection Solution for Manufacturing

In early 2011, Time magazine reported, “The U.S. manufacturing sector overall, after shrinking by six million positions between 1997 and 2009, has added 240,000 workers since the beginning of 2010.”1 Now, a recent Plant Engineering article confirms that the recovery is real for U.S. manufacturers, citing, “Manufacturing’s meteoric rise as the driver of the U.S. economy continued in 2012, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis.“

How can manufacturers handle the increased demands this positive trend puts on their backup and recovery strategies?

Solution Brief: Data Protection Solution for State & Local Government

In today’s technology climate, state and local governments face a mix of challenges and opportunities that make navigating the foreseeable future in computing a tough call.

With the right choices in solutions — including backup and recovery — those government organizations that adopt a strategy to maximize resources while taking advantage of technology trends will find the future so bright, you’ve got to wear shades.

To catch a glimpse of the bright side, read on...

Solution Brief: Unitrends Backup & Recovery Solutions and Instant Recovery

Whether you’ve got products to sell or services to provide, even a brief interruption to your business operations can severely compromise your mission. Whatever the cause, when your technology infrastructure fails, two factors drive the effectiveness of your data protection strategy: Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). While RTO is the amount of time it takes to recover, RPO is the threshold for the amount of unrecoverable data your business can tolerate in the event of a crash.

Solution Brief: Avoiding Disaster Recovery Epic Fails

Most disaster recovery (DR) articles focus on convincing readers that the risk of a business altering disaster is real, and as such, they should buy a set of products and services to mitigate that risk. But, if you’re reading this, I know you already understand the importance of DR, and so my focus will be a little bit different. This article will explore various causes of DR epic fails – ranging from traditional issues, such as backup and replication malfunctions and a lack of planning, to new challenges, such as assuming homogeneity.

Solution Brief: Unitrends Backup & Recovery Solutions And Disaster Recovery Best Practices: Fire Preparedness

The ability of your business to respond to a disaster depends on how well your
 IT organization can address specific situations. While you can only plan for 
so much in the way of detail, you can understand and anticipate both the likelihood and ramifications of certain types of disasters, and use this knowledge to plan your response and thus expedite the disaster recovery process.

In this case, let’s take a look at the threat of a fire...

Solution Brief: Unitrends Backup & Recovery Solutions And Disaster Recovery Best Practices: Flood Preparedness

The ability of your business to respond to a disaster depends on how well your IT organization can address specific situations. While you can only plan for so much in the way of detail, you can understand and anticipate both the likelihood and ramifications of certain types of disasters, and use this knowledge to plan your response and thus expedite the disaster recovery process.

In this case, let’s take a look at the threat of a flood...

Solution Brief: Unitrends Backup & Recovery Solutions And Disaster Recovery Best Practices: Hurricane Preparedness

The ability of your business to respond to a disaster depends on how well your IT organization can address specific situations. While you can only plan for so much in the way of detail, you can understand and anticipate both the likelihood and ramifications of certain types of disasters, and use this knowledge to plan your response and thus expedite the disaster recovery process.

In this case, let’s take a look at the threat of a hurricane...

Solution Brief: Unitrends Backup & Recovery Solutions And Disaster Recovery Best Practices: Earthquake / Tsunami Preparedness

The ability of your business to respond to a disaster depends on how well your IT organization can address specific situations. While you can only plan for so much in the way of detail, you can understand and anticipate both the likelihood and ramifications of certain types of disasters, and use this knowledge to plan your response and thus expedite the disaster recovery process.

Solution Brief: Unitrends Backup & Recovery Solutions And Disaster Recovery Best Practices: Tornado Preparedness

The ability of your business to respond to a disaster depends on how well your IT organization can address specific situations. While you can only plan for so much in the way of detail, you can understand and anticipate both the likelihood and ramifications of certain types of disasters, and use this knowledge to plan your response and thus expedite the disaster recovery process.

Solution Brief: Unitrends Integrated Backup And Recovery Of Microsoft Sharepoint Environments

For many companies, SharePoint touches every aspect of their businesses, including intranets, Web portals, data centers, branch sites, remote users, and more. So the possibility of data loss or downtime can pose a serious threat to your organization’s mission.

Solution Brief: Unitrends Integrated Backup And Recovery Of Microsoft SQL Server Environments

Your business infrastructure relies on your Microsoft SQL® servers. Your business – no matter the size – can’t afford to lose an entire day’s worth of data. The ability to not only backup your data but to also quickly and thoroughly restore this data is critically important to the survival and continued successful operation of your business. Unitrends recovery series appliances and Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ Bridge the gap between virtual, physical, and cloud protection and offer optimal data management for your environment with a unique simply scalable architecture that is as easy to get started as 1-2-3.

CTO Series: Sharepoint, SQL, And Exchange Backup In Virtual And Physical Environments

Enterprise Windows demands enterprise-class data protection strategies; yet there has never been more confusion concerning the advantages and disadvantages of protecting various versions of Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Exchange Server in both physical and virtual environments.

Solution Brief: Data Protection Solution for Educational Institutions

Unitrends offers advanced data protection strategies to meet the growing demands of educational institutions. Including the expansion of data growth, increased privacy requirements, government regulations and compliance, Unitrends data protection protects needs while growing with the changing environments.

CTO SERIES: Unitrends Recovery-943: The Soul of a New Backup Appliance

With a full suite of integrated data protection software, 40 drives delivered in a high-density 4U chassis arranged in a three-tiered storage architecture coupled with 256GB of memory and 32 processor threads, the raw capabilities and performance of the Recovery-943 are unlike any backup appliance on the market today

CTO SERIES: Losing My Religion: Virtualization Backup Dogma, Faith and Fact

Despite the tremendous advantages that virtualization brings to IT professionals, many find themselves at their wits’ end with respect to protecting ever more prevalent virtualized environments. 

Solution Brief: Unitrends and VMware: The Virtualization Protection Solution

Unitrends is among an elite set of vendors that provide an all-in-one virtual appliance for VMware vsphere 5 that provides enterprise-class protection for the WMware virtual infrastructure. but we go beyond that.

Brief: Top 10 Reasons to Choose Unitrends for Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012

Unitrends allows you to escape the limitations of restrictive backup for Windows Server 2012. Learn why Unitrends is the #1 all-in-one complete backup and data protection solution for Microsoft virtual, physical and cloud environments.

Solution Brief: Unitrends Backup and Recovery Solution for Credit Unions

Unitrends protection for credit unions inherits our core values and technology. This credit Union brief will describe how to leverage Unitrends offerings to ensure data protection for credit Unions and financial institutions. After reading this brief, you will understand how to protect financial data while adhering to compliance and regulations.

Solution Brief: Protecting Windows Microsoft Exchange Server

Growth in data for Microsoft exchange is expanding at a rapid Growth rate. Mailbox sizes are increasing due to multimedia file, documentation collaboration and database Growth. With this growth, mobility and virtualization of applications and data is increasing as well.

Solution Brief: Disaster Recovery Best Practices

This Disaster Recovery Best Practice brief will describe how to leverage Unitrends offerings to ensure data protection and best practices for disaster recovery scenarios. After reading this brief, you will understand how to protect businesses’ most critical data where backups alone simply will not meet the recovery need.

Solution Brief: Unitrends Recovery-Series Appliance - Addressing Enterprise-Class Data Protection

Unitrends has leveraged over 20 years of experience in understanding ever- changing data protection challenges in the industry and responding to dynamic customers’ needs. With large scale, enterprise deployments, the level of data protection scales dramatically to address the exponential growth of information; yet few solutions are able to scale easily to manage the growth and also deliver a simplified way to manage this challenge.

White Paper: Six Fairy Tales of VMware and Hyper-V Backup

Cinderella. Snow White. Hansel and Gretal. VMware host-level backup works well with all deduplication strategies. These famous, and not so famous, fairy tales have one thing in common — they are fiction. In this paper we explore six fairy tales of VMware and Hyper-V backup. Like all fairy tales, our virtualization backup fairy tales are written to teach lessons in a fun way.

Solution Brief: Microsoft and Unitrends: An Unbeatable Combination

Unitrends offers the industry's only native all-in-one Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V role and Hyper-V 2012 Server backup, archiving, instant recovery, and disaster recovery virtual appliance.

Solution Brief: VMware and Unitrends: The Virtualization Protection Solutions

Unitrends is among an elite set of vendors that provide an all-in-one virtual appliance for VMware vSphere 5 that provides enterprise-class protection for the VMware virtual infrastructure. But we go beyond that.

White Paper: How to Sell Backup to Your CFO

A CFO is a corporate officer primarily responsible for managing the financial risks of the corporation. Secondary responsibilities are financial planning and record keeping as well as financial reporting to senior management as well as the board of directors. Given that job description, you would think that “selling backup” to a CFO would be the easiest thing in the world. You’d be wrong.

White Paper: The 7 Deadly Sins of Backup and Recovery

This paper guides IT executives and system administrators in designing and implementing business backup and disaster recovery systems that enable every organization to rapidly recover entire business systems including business data, server OS, applications, and user data in case of a system failure or disaster, without experiencing undue planning and management pains.

White Paper: 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job!)

This tongue in cheek white paper explores data loss from a contrarian point of view - exploring the top 7 shortcuts you can take to ensure that you lose your data. And since a fundamental responsibility of any information technology professional, as well as any C-level executive, is to ensure that the data upon which any company is created is protected - scrupulously following these shortcuts should also ensure that you lose not only your data but your job as well.

White Paper: Deduplication, Incremental Forever, and the Olsen Twins

What do deduplication, incremental forever, and the Olsen twins have to do with each other? It’s all about duplicate data. Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are fraternal twins. Identical twins share the same 100% of their DNA. Fraternal twins share about 50% of their DNA - the same as any other sibling.

White Paper: Does Your Cloud Have a Silver Lining?

The level of hype surrounding cloud-based computing has never been higher. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand the advantages and the drawbacks of cloud-based computing - particularly as it applies to business continuity and disaster recovery.

White Paper: Don't Get Duped by Dedupe

The purpose of deduplication is to provide more storage, particularly backup storage, for less money, right? Then wouldn’t it be ridiculous if deduplication vendors were demanding that their customers pay more per terabyte of storage? Or, if they were simply pushing the task of integrating, monitoring, and managing deduplication back onto their users? This white paper is to help you understand the various approaches to deduplication, the strengths and weaknesses of each, and to introduce a different approach to deduplication, Adaptive Deduplication.

White Paper: What Most Backup Vendors Don't Want You to Know

There are always a few “secrets” in any industry – and the backup and restore business has its share. Our secrets are widely known within the industry but are less well-known outside of it – for the obvious reason that none of these secrets helps the majority of the vendors in this space. In this white paper, we will reveal these secrets to you.

White Paper: Don't Be a Puppet of Your Backup Strategy

Backup, despite the breathless hyperbole of many in the industry, is simply a form of insurance. What’s important about your backup strategy is getting your systems and data protected in the most effective and affordable manner possible. Speaking plainly - you must be careful that you are in control of your backup strategy rather than your backup strategy (and vendor) being in control of you.

White Paper: Protecting Windows: Microsoft Exchange Server Protection

In this document we'll first present an overview of the Exchange data protection architecture provided by Microsoft and then explore the ways that Unitrends offers the best Exchange protection in the industry.

White Paper: Deduplication Devices are Backup Appliances, the Check is in the Mail, and Other Lies

Recently I’ve run into some marketing material stressing from deduplication device vendors that what they are selling are “backup appliances.” This reminds me of the story of the car salesman selling a car and then later admitting that the engine and steering wheel and seats are “options” that will cost more. By this logic Seagate could sell their disk drives as “laptop computers” to school children to use in class. I don’t know what offends me worse – the blatant lie or the assumption some marketing person made that their intended buyer is either too stupid or too bored to be able to tell the difference.