Business Continuity and Backup

You know that unlike disaster recovery, business continuity means what you do daily to maintain service, consistency, and recoverability to your customers, suppliers, regulators, and others with whom you do business. Business continuity means that your business is up and running not only when there's a disaster - but on a day-to-day basis so that you can maximize your company's revenue and profits.

Unitrends Solution

There are an overwhelming number of vendors who will protect your files remotely. There are a few vendors who will let you "instant recover" your Windows systems (although a migration step is typically needed) or will let your "instant recover" your VMware systems. Unitrends is the only company that does both.

At Unitrends, we understand that what's important to you is getting back to business quickly. Our appliances are designed to enable the rapid recovery of your systems - not just your data. The solutions that Unitrends brings to businesses with respect to business continuity (and disaster recovery) are as follow:

• Windows instant recovery: Recovery of Windows systems in just a few minutes by using the Unitrends' backup appliance to host the protected Windows system.
• VMware instant recovery: Recovery of VMware systems in just a few minutes by enabling the backup on the Unitrends' backup appliance to be used to boot a new virtual machine.
• Unified monitoring and management: Our Rapid Recovery Console allows unified monitoring and management; our alert, SMTP e-mail, and SNMP systems allow integration with third-party systems and network management platforms.
• Edge data protection: Protection of notebooks, PCs, and workstations at the "edge" of the IT infrastructure. Local storage is protected without requiring people to remember to copy to the SAN.
• Physical and virtual server protection: Protection of physical and virtual servers within the IT infrastructure. This may be used to avoid proprietary vendor lock-in of a single storage vendor or technology. In other words, when you need to expand you can add a terabyte for less than $99 to your server instead of paying thousands for a terbyte of SAN storage.
• NAS and SAN data protection: Protection of NAS and SANs within the IT infrastructure. This may be used to avoid proprietary vendor lock-in of a single storage vendor or technology. You can protect your NASs and SANs either directly or indirectly.
• D2D2D rotational archiving: Disk-to-disk-to-disk rotational archiving may be used for disaster recovery and to conserve WAN bandwidth in a multi-premise environment.
• D2D2T rotational archiving: Disk-to-disk-to-tape rotational archiving may be used for disaster recovery and to conserve WAN bandwidth in a multi-premise environment in a situation in which tapes are required by convention.
• Electronic vaulting: Electronic vaulting offers the lowest total cost of ownership in terms of disaster recovery and tends to conserve WAN bandwidth better than SAN-based replication. If sufficient WAN bandwidth exists, SAN-based replication is a viable alternative to electronic vaulting.

Instant Recovery Key Concepts:

Windows Instant Recovery: This feature uses the Unitrends' failover virtualization technology to enable the recovery of Windows systems in just a few minutes. It works by allowing the Unitrends' backup appliance to become the virtual host and directly support the execution of the Windows systems as virtual machines. Long-term recovery is then performed once new Windows servers are procured via a dissimilar bare metal restore.

VMware Instant Recovery: This feature uses the Unitrends' failover virtualization technology to allow the recovery of VMware virtual machines in just a few minutes. It works by allowing VMware hosts to use the backup as the VMware guest virtual disk. Long-term recovery is then performed via VMware's vMotion technology.