Unitrends’s Recovery-943 has officially hit the channel. The tiered backup appliance represents the latest addition to the Unitrend Recovery Series of scalable all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery appliances.
According to Unitrends, Recovery-943 is designed to provide SMBs with “tiered storage inside a single appliance for maximum backup performance and optimized data access.” Operating system, metadata, and backup sets are separated and stored on three different drive offerings inside the box: high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for OS data and RPM disks for metadata and the backup storage pool.
Recovery-943 supports a maximum backup size of 50TB with an unformatted usable physical storage capacity of 97 TB – all in a sleek 4U form factor unit. This design enables customers to protect large amounts of data for longer periods of time using a single appliance that takes up minimal rack space.
Since stored data is only as good as its level of accessibility, Unitrends combined Recovery-943’s tiered storage design with tiered redundancy for protection of both the data sets as well as the drives inside the appliance. The solution is configured with RAID-1 protection for OS and metadata sets and RAID-60 across 36 three-TB backup storage drives. The appliance also includes dual power supplies and two fault-tolerant solid-state internal drives for the operating system.
“At a time when companies are pressed to do more with less, Recovery-943 provides customers with a single, high-performance appliance that backs up more data faster than ever before – and ensures that critical information is readily recoverable,” says Unitrends chief strategy and tech officer Dr. Mark Campbell. “And, in typical Unitrends fashion, we did all of this at a price point and level of simplicity that meets the requirements of today’s overtaxed IT departments and allows them to focus on their business rather than their backup.”
Recovery-943 also includes the standard backup and recovery features, including:
- Heterogeneous Backup – Protects more than 100 versions of operating systems, hypervisors, and applications.
- Byte-Level Adaptive Deduplication – Combines inline compression with post-processing data deduplication to ensure protected data is available for immediate recovery.
- Instant Recovery via Failover Virtualization – Recovers systems in less than five minutes, drastically reducing downtime due to any Windows or VMware system failure.
- Integrated Dissimilar Bare Metal Recovery for Physical & Virtual Servers – Recovers entire server images to dissimilar physical or virtual hardware regardless of make, model, or installed components.
- Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery – Enables private cloud (via Unitrends’ appliances) and public cloud (via Unitrends’ Vault2Cloud) disaster recovery.
- AES-256 Bit Encryption – Provides maximum security with minimal impact on corporate systems.
- Web-Based User Interface – Enables administrators to manage Unitrends appliances through a single, intuitive pane of glass.
Unitrends’ Recovery-943 rack appliance is now available for purchase at the promotional price of $99,995 through the end of the year. Standard pricing is $129,995, or $1,042 per raw TB and $2,000 per backup TB. Additionally, with Unitrends’ No Limits Licensing, customers can protect rapidly growing IT environments without worrying about “backup tax”, such as fees associated with protected system count, operating systems or applications.
