Notebooks, PCs, and workstations - the devices at the "edge" of your IT infrastructure - represent a quandry for business and IT leaders. What some businesses do initially is to create a rule that all critical data must reside on centralized storage and servers. It's a simple, clean, and -- doesn't work. For convenience, performance, and a myriad of other reasons, people tend to work from their own dedicated computer resources.

Unitrends Solution

We don't impose onerous conditions on your users in order to protect your company's critical data. The solutions that Unitrends brings to businesses that need data protection for notebooks, PCs, and workstations 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 centralized servers and/or storage.
• 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 SAN environments; each of these are depicted below along with the primary value proposition of our appliances in these environments.

Notebooks

Notebook are among the most challenging of devices to keep protected. While data change rates typically aren't high, information captured by those interfacing with your customers is among the most valuable you have.

Unitrends offers:

• Unified monitoring and management
• Edge data protection
• D2D2D rotational archiving
• D2D2T rotational archiving
• Electronic vaulting

PCs

It doesn't seem to matter how much consolidation occurs, the proliferation of PCs continues unabated. Attempts to force users to keep their data on servers or centralized storage often either fails completely or occurs so infrequently that valuable data exists unprotected for days, weeks, months, and even years.

Unitrends offers:

• Unified monitoring and management
• Edge data protection
• D2D2D rotational archiving
• D2D2T rotational archiving
• Electronic vaulting†

Workstations

In addition to supporting Microsoft Windows workstations going all the way back to the early days of Windows clients to Windows 7 today a wide variety of other client operating systems including, VMware, Sun Solaris, Novell OES, Novell Netware, Linux, FreeBSD, Apple MacOS X, IBM pSeries/AIX, HP HP-UX, SCO UnixWare, SCO OpenServer, IBM iSeries/OS400, and SGI IRIX.

Unitrends offers:

• Unified monitoring and management
• Edge data protection
• D2D2D rotational archiving
• D2D2T rotational archiving
• Electronic vaulting†