You know that you should protect your business from disaster; that if you lost your data and systems that you have at worst little chance of recovering your business or at best a long slow crawl back to resuming your operations. And you know that a fire, flood, tornado, or hurricane can devastate with little or no warning. But there are other threats. A recent survey of IT executives from Infoconomy found that of the named perceived threats to business continuity that viruses were second only to internal system failure as the leading cause of concern.  This same survey found that 48% and 32% of these executives, respectively, cited “greater broad awareness of IT risk” and “growing security threat” as the major drivers for increasing IT resilience.

(Select the picture to the right of this text for a depiction of our disaster recovery process.)

Unitrends Solution

There are an overwhelming number of vendors who will protect your files remotely. 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 disaster recovery are as follow:

• 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.

There are several typical disaster recovery environments; each of these are depicted below along with the primary value proposition of our appliances in these environments.

† D2D2D and D2D2T rotational archiving may be used in vaulting and cross-vaulting to reduce the WAN transmission when there are large data sets and/or small amounts of available WAN bandwidth.