UNITRENDS BACKUP APPLIANCES

All-in-One Backup Appliances for IT Professionals

Have confidence in the face of any outage. Unitrends Recovery Series all-in-one physical backup appliances offer seamless continuity by automating manual tasks and removing management hassle. Tested hardware and software resilience minimizes downtime and ensures business continuity.

Recovery Series Backup

The Future of Resilience Is Now

Introducing Recovery Series Generation 10! Discover the future of data protection with our cutting-edge, next-generation enterprise backup appliances.

Gen 10 appliances deliver lightning-fast backup and restore, unmatched reliability and unparalleled security to safeguard your critical data. Pair your appliance with Unitrends All-Flash Cloud Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service for turbocharged business resilience.

DATA PROTECTION SIMPLIFIED

Turnkey Business Continuity

Protecting your data shouldn't mean added work or complexity. Unitrends appliances are preconfigured with compute, storage, networking and backup software. Simply rack, connect and go! Policy-based scheduling automates backups and replication, and orchestrates recovery workflows with ease.

Resilient Protection
Hands-Free Troubleshooting

Backup and Recover With Confidence

Unitrends offers a variety of ways to protect your critical data. Building your protection strategy depends on your service level agreement (SLA). Depending on your workload and recovery objective requirements, you can leverage a combination of agent-based or agentless protection to achieve your recovery goals.

Self-Healing

Embrace Tested, Resilient Appliances

Equipped with predictive analytics, our appliances proactively identify and resolve recovery threats before they occur. Self-healing hardware and software reduce environmental risks and hardware-related downtime. AI monitors data characteristics to catch ransomware in the act and immediately alerts administrators.

Automatic Testing

Eliminate Backup Management Challenges

Manage all your appliances, endpoint backup and SaaS backup from a single, centralized management platform with Unitrends UniView. BackupIQ™ Intelligent Alerting lets you define alerts and thresholds, helping you focus on critical issues impacting your recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) SLAs.

AI-based Ransomware Protection

Optimize for Your Specific Needs

Sized from 2TB to 120TB, there's a Unitrends backup appliance to fit your needs and budget. All-in-one appliances are offered in high-performance desktop and enterprise-grade rackmount form factors. On-box recovery and disaster recovery (DR) are available as well. As your business grows, it's easy to scale up, out or to the cloud.

Full-Featured Data Backup Appliances at a Low, Predictable Cost

Discover the future of data protection with our cutting-edge, next-generation backup appliances. Experience blazing-fast backup and recovery, peerless reliability and industry-leading security to safeguard your critical data.

Always thinking ahead

Innovative Backup Appliance Features

Cutting-edge technology built into appliances automates manual tasks, eliminates management hassles and delivers faster, more cost-efficient data protection.

Innovative
Reduce Storage Costs

Multi-Environment Protection

Unitrends appliances natively protect 200+ versions of operating systems, applications and hypervisors. Leverage a combination of agent-based and agentless protection to meet your environment's unique backup and recovery needs.

Fast Replication

Flexible Recovery Options

An intuitive user interface enables you to easily search, filter, manage and restore thousands of backups. Effortlessly restore files, folders, images, virtual machines and applications when needed.

Risk-Free Test/Dev

Self-Healing Technology

Next-generation technology proactively anticipates and resolves potential downtime threats and leading causes of recovery failure before they happen. These include ransomware, Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) issues, drive failures and more.

Instant Recovery

Hardened Security Protocols

Your data is always available with Unitrends. Appliances are built on a hardened Linux platform, minimizing Windows attack exposure. They are equipped with multifactor authentication (MFA), encryption, access control and secure protocols.

Reduce Storage Costs

Effortless Installation and Deployment

Unitrends Recovery Series deploys turnkey, all-in-one physical appliances without add-ons and proxies. With minimal configuration and an intuitive user interface, you can start protecting your critical data without a steep learning curve.

Fast Replication

Adaptive Global Deduplication

Maximize storage efficiency with built-in Adaptive Deduplication™. We combine global inline deduplication and compression for optimal data reduction, storage utilization and lightning-fast replication.

Risk-Free Test/Dev

Automated Regulatory Compliance

SLA policy automation streamlines backup and archiving scheduling to meet RTO, RPO and retention requirements in one step. Leverage recovery assurance testing for automated, application-level DR runbook tests to certify backups and benchmark SLAs.

Instant Recovery

24/7/365 U.S.-based Support

We're here to help! The award-winning support team of Unitrends, headquartered out of South Carolina, is available via chat, phone or email 24/7/365.

See Everything Unitrends Backup Appliances Have to Offer

Appliances range from 2TB to 120TB and are available in high-performance desktop and robust rackmount form factors. Regardless of the use case, there's a backup appliance that caters to it.

Pair Your Backup Appliance With an Off-site Strategy That's Right for You

Unitrends combines 30+ years of backup expertise with next-generation appliances and cloud solutions for streamlined data protection and business continuity. The resulting platform provides resilience for overcoming outages and flexibility to match your environment's unique needs.

Unitrends Forever Cloud

Fully automated, off-site and long-term data protection without the complexity and unpredictable cost of public clouds. No egress fees or per-incident charges — just predictable, straightforward costs even as your data grows. Recover individual files, folders or entire backup groups on demand, at no additional charge.

Unitrends Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

Unitrends DRaaS makes backup and disaster recovery effortless. Our white glove service eliminates the time, hassle and expense of managing a second site for disaster recovery. A simple call to Unitrends support can instantly spin up your critical systems and applications in the secure Unitrends Cloud.

Site-to-Site Failover

Outages can strike at any time. Replicate a copy of your data to a Unitrends appliance at your DR site for safekeeping. Recovery Assurance leverages backup copies to orchestrate n-tiered failover, enabling instant spin-up of applications or your entire site.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Backup Appliances

A backup appliance is a physical device with integrated backup software, storage capacity and preconfigured hardware components. Backup appliances may or may not contain dedupe disks, cloud connectivity or other distinguishing features. However, the key to this product category is having a backup management engine and considerable storage within the consolidated device.

Purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) are disk-based storage solutions engineered for storing backed-up data. PBBAs can serve as target systems for data from backup applications or integrated systems with backup software. Many target devices lack their own backup software and are designed to complement other third-party backup applications.

However, in some cases, an appliance may serve as a backup system, a replication target or both. For example, Unitrends systems can be configured for local backup, replication or both, depending on your environment's needs.

PBBAs usually include deduplication, encryption, compression, redundant hardware components and automated setup and maintenance. They focus on protection against malware, hardware failures and natural disasters, making them ideal for data protection and disaster recovery.

The following are advantages of using a PBBA:
  • PBBA solutions are a cost-effective way to extend data protection investments without process changes.
  • PBBAs can be customized to suit a specific backup requirement.
  • PBBAs are plug-and-play storage devices that are ready for immediate use. These devices are easy to set up and manage, with most of them seamlessly integrating with existing architecture.
  • These devices include redundant components, like RAID disks, power supplies and network interface cards, to prevent data loss during component failures.
  • PBBAs optimize backups efficiently and are dedicated solely to the backup and recovery use case.
  • PBBAs are designed to run only backup-related workloads, which minimizes the impact on other servers or devices.s or extract resources from other devices.
  • Features like deduplication in backup appliances help reduce storage costs by removing redundant copies of backed-up data.
  • Data encryption at rest ensures confidentiality, while role-based access control restricts unauthorized access and data retrieval. This allows only authorized personnel to obtain data or perform certain functions.

Backup appliances typically work by connecting to devices/components on the local network. Pre-installed backup software uses a combination of agents or hypervisor integration to capture data from configured devices. Backup data is stored on the appliance's local storage media. That data can be replicated to another target or restored from the backup appliance as required. Advanced backup appliance solutions offer granular options for replicating or restoring files, folders, volumes or full machine images.

Backup appliances are built to meet your organization's backup and recovery needs, SLA requirements, and BCDR efforts. These devices are powerful, enabling quick access to your data and adding reliability to your backup and recovery processes.

Backup appliances empower quick restoration and recovery during disruptive incidents, like cyberattacks or hardware failures. Today, most organizations use backup appliances to protect mission-critical data and recover from disasters. Modern backup appliances also automate backup-related tasks with intelligent features like snapshots, SLA policies, WAN-optimized replication and recovery testing.

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting your backups — attempting to disable them from occurring, encrypting them or deleting them entirely. If subsequent attacks on your primary data are successful, you may be forced to pay the ransom.

Backup appliances can play a critical role in thwarting ransomware attacks. They can block physical access, encrypt data, create immutable copies and verify login credentials via access control methods.

All backup appliances are built differently. Backup solution providers implement different approaches that make their products unique. Businesses must be aware of these differences when evaluating a backup appliance. Here are a few criteria that you must look for in a backup appliance.

Ease of use: Look for a backup appliance that is easy to install, manage, use and scale. The right backup appliance comes preconfigured with hardware, software and networking. Hardware components and software should be optimized to work in tandem.

Regulatory compliance: Consider a backup appliance that enables automated regulatory compliance. Efficient backup appliances enable SLA policy automation for backup, archive and retention scheduling. This allows you to meet RTO, RPO and retention requirements.

Saves time: Reliable backup appliances simplify data protection and save time. Unitrends backup appliances help IT administrators save more time on data backups. An intuitive, purpose-built management console lets you quickly and easily search, filter, manage and recover thousands of backups. This helps you save time to focus on other important strategic initiatives.

Saves money: A good backup appliance will help you save a considerable amount of money on data storage. For instance, Unitrends backup appliances come equipped with built-in adaptive deduplication. This combines global and inline dedupe with compression for industry-leading storage efficiency, resulting in reduced storage costs and better retention.

Scalability: Look for a scalable backup appliance to meet current and future business needs, whether by scaling up, out or to the cloud. Unitrends Recovery Series backup appliances are built to scale with your business. Increase your protected capacity by swapping with a larger appliance. Scale out by adding backup appliances within a single site, at remote office/branch office (ROBO) sites or by extending to the cloud.

Robust data protection: Data loss and downtime are among the top challenges businesses face today. The right backup appliance should be able to safeguard data from hardware issues, software issues and malware while also enabling secure recovery. Predictive analytics in Unitrends backup appliances proactively identifies and resolves threats to recovery before they even occur. Self-healing software automatically rectifies VSS errors and other software-related issues. Self-healing technology in appliance hardware reduces disk-drive-related downtime by up to 90%.