Revolutionizing BCDR: Explore the New Innovations in Unitrends UniView

Protecting data across various applications, environments and locations is a continuous challenge for IT teams. As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid infrastructures and depend on multiple SaaS applications and numerous endpoints, this challenge becomes even more complex. To tackle this problem, a comprehensive solution that provides clarity, control and efficiency is essential, and that is where Unitrends UniView comes into play.

UniView provides a unified platform to oversee and manage your backup and recovery solutions for data centers, endpoints and SaaS applications like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Acting as a single pane of glass with a simple and intuitive interface, it ensures seamless management of your backup needs and protection of your critical data — no matter where it resides. For organizations prioritizing data integrity and operational efficiency, UniView is the game changer that ties everything together.

Notably, UniView goes beyond just being a management platform to providing a central hub of intelligence and automation. Featuring advanced tools like BackupIQ, which delivers actionable insights, and Helix, which ensures proactive remediation, UniView keeps your data protected and systems optimized. Its seamless integration with remote monitoring and management (RMM), professional services automation (PSA) and IT documentation platforms extends the benefits of the IT Complete ecosystem, making it an indispensable tool for IT teams striving to enhance their workflows.

At Unitrends, we’re committed to evolving alongside the changing needs of our customers. That’s why UniView continues to innovate with groundbreaking new features aimed at further simplifying IT management while enhancing protection.

Let’s look at three new cutting-edge features that UniView has added to the fold

Unitrends UniView: A centralized hub for your IT resilience

Unitrends introduces three new cutting-edge features that further make data protection seamless and effective for IT pros like you.

1) Asset hierarchy visualization: Navigate complexity with clarity

• Where can you find it? The feature is conveniently displayed within the asset detail pane, providing quick and intuitive access to hierarchical data.
• Why is it essential for you? Backup administrators often deal with interconnected assets across virtual hosts, applications and file-level objects. A clear hierarchy is crucial for understanding these relationships and implementing effective backup strategies. Asset hierarchy visualization eliminates guesswork, offering a clear and actionable view of your backup environment.
• How does it work? For instance, you can quickly identify the virtual host and vCenter Server associated with an individual virtual machine (VM). Similarly, you can quickly understand how a file-level object connects to an image, application or VM. You can also trace relationships between Exchange or Structured Query Language (SQL) applications and their respective images or file-level objects.

Real-world impact: For example, if a file-level object is misplaced or corrupted, you can immediately identify its related application or VM, allowing you to respond faster and more accurately. This clarity translates into time savings and better backup management. Asset hierarchy visualization empowers IT teams with the insights needed to navigate their environments efficiently — turning complexity into clarity.

2) Cold copy job management: Simplify off-site data retention

Cold copy job management in UniView lets you configure backup cold copy jobs to third-party cloud targets directly within your backup policies. This functionality supports file, image, VMware and Hyper-V backups, ensuring comprehensive data management.

• Where can you find it? You can access this feature while creating a backup policy in the Appliance Detail > Assets pane, where all aspects of your backup configuration are centralized.
• Why is it essential for you? Effective data protection requires a holistic backup strategy. With UniView’s backup job management, you can configure:
  • Local backups for quick recovery
  • Hot copy replication for disaster recovery (DR) readiness
  • And now, cold copy replication for off-site, long-term retention or archiving

  This streamlined approach consolidates data protection tasks into one policy, simplifying management and ensuring no critical steps are overlooked.

• How does it work? Define your cold copy target, such as third-party cloud storage, during backup policy creation. Creating backup policies gives you full control over your off-site replication strategy, including cloud targets, backup modes, storage threshold overwrite controls and retention on target. UniView provides a holistic and seamless management experience all from one interface.

Real-world impact: For organizations with compliance or long-term retention needs, cold copy job management reduces complexity and ensures data is securely archived off-site. For instance, archiving legacy VMware backups to a third-party cloud target becomes a straightforward, policy-driven process. This ensures your backup policies are not only robust but also aligned with modern data retention requirements.

3) Next-generation endpoint backup: Redefine the efficiency of your endpoint protection

This new cutting-edge endpoint backup technology is built from the ground up and is fully integrated into the UniView portal. It seamlessly integrates with the IT Complete stack, including RMM and PSA, for a streamlined, policy-driven approach to endpoint data protection.

• Where can you find it? Next-generation endpoint backup is delivered directly within UniView, ensuring a unified management experience alongside your other IT tools.
• Why is it essential for you? Designed with direct input from customers and partners, this solution offers unparalleled control and flexibility to meet modern endpoint backup needs. Key enhancements include:
  • Policy-based scheduling with options for business hours, continuous or custom schedules.
  • Flexible restore methods: Restore to the same or a new device, perform bare metal recovery (BMR), or retrieve individual files.
  • Differential restore for faster recovery of large data sets by transferring only changed data blocks
  • Bandwidth throttling for optimized performance with Quality of Service (QoS) rules

  These features make managing endpoint backups efficient and adaptable to evolving business requirements.

• How does it work?
  • Configure backup policies tailored to your needs, whether continuous or scheduled
  • Select flexible restore options from specific files to complete systems, enabling seamless device migrations or disaster recovery
  • Leverage differential restores to save time during large-scale recoveries by restoring only modified data
  • Optimize performance with bandwidth throttling, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations during backups

  These features make managing endpoint backups efficient and adaptable to evolving business requirements.

Real-world impact: Imagine a critical endpoint failure during business hours. With next-generation endpoint backup, you can instantly recover files or restore the system to a new device without disrupting workflows. Differential restore ensures the process is swift, while bandwidth throttling prevents performance lags for other users.

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Simplify backup and recovery management with UniView

By consolidating all backup and recovery management into a single, unified view, UniView eliminates the complexities of juggling multiple tools and platforms. With intuitive controls and comprehensive oversight, IT professionals can focus on strategic initiatives instead of time-consuming backup tasks. In essence, the platform empowers IT teams to manage backups smarter, faster and more efficiently than ever before.

If you’re ready to redefine your backup and recovery efficiency with the power of a unified view, and see how UniView can transform your IT operations.