Unitrends
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Number of employees | 250[1] |
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Website | unitrends |
Unitrends Inc., a Kaseya company, is an American company specializing in backup and business continuity.[2]
Products
Unitrends produces a number of physical appliances, ranging from small desktop backup appliances to large rack-mounted backup appliances. Unitrends also produces virtual appliances for VMware and Hyper-V marketed as Unitrends Backup. The physical appliances typically consist of some level of redundant components; most notably
Technology
Unitrends uses file-and-image-based backup techniques coupled with storage-based and in-flight AES-256 encryption,[7] compression, data deduplication, and ransomware detection. The technology supports Bare-Metal restore as well as file-based recovery.[8] 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.[9] The company attempts to sell its support of storage, operating system, and application heterogeneity and claims that it supports over 250 versions of operating systems and applications.[10]
History
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Since its inception in 1989,[11] Unitrends Software Corporation has developed backup and crash-recovery technology. Unitrends originated from a sole proprietorship called Medflex, which was founded in 1985 by Steve W. Schwartz[12][dead link] to help fund medical missions. The first product, CTAR (Compressing Tape Archiver), was originally developed to handle the backup problems Schwartz encountered in his own medical office. After making modifications to the program, it was sold commercially.[citation needed]
In 1988, Unitrends developed the first complete crash-recovery product for Santa Cruz Operation’s Xenix systems, originally called Jet RestorEase.[13] Unitrends started as a standalone Unix backup software company and provided BareMetal recovery for platforms like the SCO offerings. BareMetal was later ported to SCO Unix and renamed System Crash Air-Bag. From 1988 to 1991, ten other software products were written for the Xenix and Unix environments and in 1999, Unitrends released their Backup Professional client/server backup software. In September 2002, Unitrends shipped their first hardware-based backup appliance.
Initially based out of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the company relocated its headquarters further inland to Columbia in November 2003, while support and development remained on the coast until 2005. In 2014, headquarters moved again to Burlington, Massachusetts.[14] where it remains today.
Growth and acquisition
On October 31, 2013, Unitrends was acquired by
References
- ^ "Unitrends". Owler. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
- ^ "Unitrends Enterprise Backup Solution - Home". www.unitrends.com. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
- ^ Unitrends: Appliance: Appliance Overview
- ^ "Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance Data Sheet" (PDF). Unitrends. 2019-02-13.
- ^ Unitrends: Vault2Cloud: Vaulting
- ^ "Unitrends Cloud Solutions". 2019-02-13.
- ^ Marget, Adam (2022-01-27). "Data Encryption: How It Works & Methods Used". Unitrends. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
- ^ Unitrends: Appliance: Appliance Overview
- ^ LTO-5, D2T, D2D, and D2D2x Backup
- ^ Unitrends Interoperability & Compatibility Matrix
- ^ "The History of Unitrends". 2013-10-15.
- ^ Bloomberg: Steve Schwartz
- ^ "UniTrends Software Corp". 1997-01-28. Archived from the original on 1997-01-28. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
- ^ Unitrends: Company: Contact Us
- ^ "EMC competitor Unitrends acquired by Insight Venture Partners". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
- ^ Kovar, Joseph F. (2013-12-18). "Unitrends Buys PHD Virtual To Expand SMB Disaster Recovery, Take On Veeam". CRN. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
- ^ Unitrends. "Unitrends Acquires PHD Virtual; Builds Powerhouse in Data Protection and Disaster Recovery". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2020-01-29.
- ^ Kovar, Joseph F. (2014-05-29). "Unitrends Acquires Yuruware: Disaster Recovery Tech Runs VMs, Virtual Networks In Cloud". CRN. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
- ^ "Unitrends acquires NICTA spin-off, Yuruware". iTnews. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
- ^ "Kaseya Merges with Leading All-in-One Mid-Market Enterprise and MSP Backup Provider, Unitrends".