Unitrends Benefits

DS
Manager, Information Technology at a hospitality company with 201-500 employees

Using Unitrends has significantly improved our organization's functionality. The onboarding process was helpful, and now I can create scripts for virtual machines. With the sandbox environment, I can test functions like pinging between the domain controller and file server, transferring files, and checking SQL Server queries—all from the backup without affecting our live environment. The automated process provides a detailed report, giving me confidence in the backup's reliability for potential restores. It is a great peace of mind to see everything in the green.

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IT Director at School District of Bruce

Other than getting daily email reports to review the status of success or failure backups of individual physical or virtual servers in our environment, we do not have to worry about the backups.

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JH
Systems Engineer specializing in Data Protection at a government with 201-500 employees

We consolidated down from several disparate backup applications to Unitrends and AvePoint.

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Unitrends
March 2024
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it_user265281 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager / Senior Network Engineer at Warnock, Tanner & Associates

This product has given us the ability to remote manage, monitor and report multiple client sites .

We have relied on this appliance several times to recover our clients from Crytpo viruses that have locked their files for ransom.

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AM
Systems Administrator at a construction company with 51-200 employees

Less headaches to worry about backups. 99% of the time, I don't have to touch it. Set up the jobs and let it go. 1% is the setup of new backups and verification the new backups work.

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it_user791514 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

Unitrends has helped us cut down the time that it takes to restore a server to its original configuration. Before, we only had the file structure backing up on a nightly basis and were utilizing bare metals. 

Unitrends has drastically cut down on our restore time.

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it_user792186 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

VM backup is much faster and more reliable, as I can test my backups with Data Copy Access jobs.

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RR
Senior Infrastructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The whole appliance needs to be more resilient. It lost our database, and that is something that cannot happen. If the data was written and managed a little better, we would not lose our entire backup. A bit more thought needs to be put into the process.

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it_user752589 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix/Apple System Administrator at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had a pretty solid backup platform before. I wouldn't say Unitrends made anything better, besides ditching Symantec's per TB licensing model and saving us a lot of money.

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LW
Manager Technical Support at Ultrium Technologies

Unitrends is efficient of running virtual machines and Physical servers inside it with a feature called instant recovery. With this, my business critical machines almost will never stop. Unitrends changed my backup window to half the time spent before and the space used too, the de-duplication is very high

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it_user753399 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Director at a non-tech company

It saves time.

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it_user759144 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a marketing services firm with 201-500 employees

Our ability to backup quickly.

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it_user759144 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a marketing services firm with 201-500 employees

It cuts down on the amount of time spent verifying backups.

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it_user752442 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Technology at a legal firm with 201-500 employees

We have been able to move completely away from using tape and robocopy for backup efforts.

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it_user752400 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We went from tape backups to hard disk backups using Unitrends. The restores have been a lot quicker.

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GG
Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

With Unitrends we can spin up devices into a VM in about five minutes' time. The disaster recovery time is very quick. Even while we are busy fixing hardware, we still have a running machine. That minimizes the loss of service. Something that usually took two hours now takes only five minutes on the server.

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it_user761184 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator

A solution which can backup most operating systems to its appliance.

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it_user760353 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a government

Fast and reliable. Able to integrate two sites and backup environments over an extended campus WAN.

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it_user789276 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Systems Engineer at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

It is a quick and easy way to organize my backups and to keep track of them.

So far, I have not had any issues and support has always been helpful.

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it_user777852 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

It works as expected the vast majority of the time. This is an improvement over other products that seem to break with the slightest change in the environment.

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it_user215967 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 501-1,000 employees

It has removed the need to have a copy for backup replication purposes, as we replicate our backups to the cloud.

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reviewer963924 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

It has reduced recovery time. From recovering VMs to just simple file-level recovery. It's all fast and easy.

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it_user215967 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 501-1,000 employees

It has made our business continuity process more efficient with less administrative overhead needs for managing two backup solutions for both physical and virtual needs.

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it_user773313 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a transportation company with 11-50 employees

Easier to track and set up new backups due to its coverage of both physical and virtual environments (or we would have needed two separate solutions).

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Buyer's Guide
Unitrends
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Unitrends. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,857 professionals have used our research since 2012.