While buying a Unitrends appliance, you must specify the size you think you'll need for three to five years. They have an 18-terabyte and a 120-terabyte type of appliance. So it's your responsibility to at least provide them with the amount of data you have. Then when you work with the person quoting from Unitrends, they'll provide a quote based on their existing data and what will be calculated over three to five years. That way, you are sizing up the correct appliance.

Unitrends is used in our organization by the IT team, comprised of a small group of IT professionals who manage and support it.

I rate Unitrends an eight out of ten for scalability.

The version of Unitrends used within my company isn't easy to scale as it's a hardware appliance. If the company needs to add more storage, it wouldn't be able to.

I would rate the scalability of Unitrends as a ten out of ten. It is highly scalable, allowing easy expansion to multiple locations or environments. The cloud dashboard feature is well-suited for bringing everything together in one place. Currently, it is servicing data for about 70 users.

I would rate the tool's scalability a ten out of ten. We have around 15,000 users for the solution. 

It is a highly scalable solution, and for scalability, I rate this solution an eight out of ten. The plan to increase the solution's usage is something we, in our company, will definitely consider. Basically, as and when the need arises, we will increase the solution's usage.

It's not easy to scale it. At some point, it requires a forklift upgrade. So that's not very conducive to scaling well; at least for what we were using it for.

The product is very scalable however if you are a small company that uses multiple subnets you must purchase a higher end appliance with multiple NICs. The lower end appliance no longer come with 2.

No.

No scalability issues.

Not yet.

It's scalable to a point. Yes, it is quite scalable.

I would like one management console for a whole environment that works quickly. It can be done, however anything you look up slows queries down because you might be searching multiple backup appliances at once.

Unitrends is not really enterprise-ready. It can scale, and there's a lot you can do with it, but it's more suitable for small and medium appliance-based backup solution models.

Scalability is where I'm running into more of an issue right now. To upgrade is pretty expensive. It's not like you can just buy a smaller appliance and put it with the one you already have. You need buy a larger appliance and that can get fairly pricey.

None.

No.

None.

No.

Unitrends is very scalable. You can basically plug in a new device and add more devices as you scale.

Unitrends is not extensively being used here in South Africa but we have a lot of plans to increase usage of the product. It's being extensively used overseas, and it has already appeared in Gartner and the visionary side of their graph and it has a lot of usage in Europe and the US. We're trying to increase the market in South Africa dramatically.

No.

Yes, expansion is only possible by buying a new appliance.

No issues.

No issues.

We have not needed to scale, so this is not applicable.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

No issues.