| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Information technology |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Headquarters | Columbia, South Carolina, USA |
| Key people | Michael Coney (Pres/CEO) |
| Products | Backup and Disaster Recovery Appliances and Related Products |
| Website | www.unitrends.com |
Unitrends Inc. is a United States based company specializing in network-based disk-to-disk, vertically-integrated backup appliances for business continuity and disaster recovery.[1]
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Unitrends produces a number of appliances ranging from small desktop backup appliances to large rack-mounted backup appliances. The appliances typically consist of some level of redundant components; most notably RAID in the form of RAID 1, RAID 6, and RAID 10.[2] These appliances have a “personality” that allows each to perform either on-premise backup, off-premise disaster recovery, or through a technology known as cross-vaulting (a form of replication) an appliance may concurrently perform on-premise backup and off-premise disaster recovery.[3] Unitrends also offers a multi-tenant public cloud based service that the company calls “Vault2Cloud.” The company states that Vault2Cloud is based on its previous product offering using its backup appliances to perform off-premise disaster recovery in a single-tenant private cloud deployment methodology.[4]
Unitrends uses file- and image-based backup techniques coupled with storage-based and in-flight encryption, compression and data deduplication. The technology supports bare-metal restore as well as file-based recovery.[5] Unitrends supports a form of disk staging in what it terms as D2D2x (Disk-to-Disk-to-Any) where “x” can be a disk, a tape, a private single-tenant cloud, or a public multi-tenant cloud.[6] The company touts its support of storage, operating system, and application heterogeneity and claims that it supports over 100 versions of operating systems and applications.[7] Unitrends states that it uses a web 2.0 user interface that allows it to manage from one to hundreds of its appliances in a single pane of glass.[8]
Unitrends was founded in 1989 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina by Steve Schwartz.[9] It is currently headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina.[10]
The executive and operational management of Unitrends include:
Venture capital groups investing in Unitrends include Paladin Capital Group, The Trelys Funds, The Aurora Funds, and Harbert Venture Partners.[15]