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Backup Exec 3600 vs Unitrends

AppAssure

-vs-Unitrends

A GLANCE INSIDE:

Company Overviews

Competitive Analysis

» Product and Licensing

» Support

» Recovery and Restore

» Monitoring and Management

» Backup

» Technology

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Unitrends’ Success Story

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OMPETITIVE ANAL

AppAssure vs Unitrends

Company Overviews

AppAssure

AppAssure’s Replay software is best suited for storage specialists who want to focus on high touch

backup and who also want to integrate multiple storage, networking, and software components in

order to stitch together a solution that meets their needs. This approach is the opposite of

Uni-trends’ appliance-based value proposition which wants you to focus on your business instead of

on your backup.

Unitrends

Unitrends offers data protection appliances that provide the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO)

in the industry. Our family of disk-to-disk (D2D) appliances provides unmatched backup and rapid

recovery of lost systems, applications, and unstructured and structured data. Our backup,

ar-chiving, and cloud-based disaster recovery appliances eliminate the need for multi-vendor

soft-ware and hardsoft-ware. Instead, Unitrends provides an integrated, simple, and elegant solution that is

designed from the ground-up for small- and medium-sized enterprises.

Competitive Analysis

Product and Licensing

AppAssure Unitrends More Detail

Non-restrictive licensing No Yes Standard licensing does not include restrictions on fea-_{tures, platforms supported, or per-client fees.} Integrated appliance No Yes Support handles a vertically integrated data protection ap-_{pliance - not just software.} Available as physical

appliance No Yes

Available as an integrated server, storage, networking, operating system, backup software, archiving software, replication software, and so forth.

Available as virtual

appliance No Yes

Available as an integrated operating system, backup soft-ware, archiving softsoft-ware, replication softsoft-ware, and so forth as a virtual appliance.

Available as software only Yes No Available as a non-integrated software. AppAssure is pri-marily sold in this manner. Unitrends does not offer non-integrated software at this time.

AppAssure vs Unitrends

AppAssure Unitrends More Detail Supports hardware and

software No Yes

Support handles a vertically integrated data protection ap-pliance - not just software. AppAssure doesn't do this with their software product. However, Unitrends does this with their physical appliance.

Proactive hardware

monitoring No Yes Standard support includes proactive hardware monitoring. Remote diagnostics No Yes Remote diagnostics are available from support.

Self-installable Yes Yes The product may be installed by a customer. On-site support No Yes On-site support is available.

Phone support Yes Yes Telephone support is available. E-mail support Yes Yes E-mail support is available. Online interactive chat

support No Yes Online interactive chat support is available. Online support form Yes Yes An online support form (or portal) is available. Knowledgebase Yes Yes A knowledgebase is available.

User forums No Yes Support monitored and managed user forums are avail-_able. Video tutorials Yes Yes Video tutorials are offered by the backup vendor.

Recovery and Restore

AppAssure Unitrends More Detail Instant recovery for

Windows Yes Yes Recovery from a failed Windows server in less than 5 min-utes. Instant recovery for

VMware Limited Yes

Recovery from a failed VMware server in less than 5 min-utes. Since AppAssure does not leverage VADP, instant re-covery is limited to virtual machines running the Windows operating system.

Dissimilar bare metal

restore Yes Yes

This includes P2P, P2V, V2P, and V2V. Unitrends has inte-grated dissimilar bare metal restore support. AppAssure requires an additional licensed product to offer this capa-bility.

Heterogeneous bare metal

restore No Yes

This includes not only Windows but also VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and other operating systems. AppAssure only supports Windows environments whereas Unitrends has integrated bare metal restore sup-port for Windows, Linux, Mac and many other operating systems.

Heterogeneous backup No Yes AppAssure only supports Windows environments, while Unitrends supports a variety of operating systems, applica-tions, and hypervisors.

Monitoring and Management

AppAssure vs Unitrends

Appliance-based monitoring and

management No Yes

Monitoring and management of data protection software, operating system, storage, server, and other solution com-ponents.

Single pane of glass Yes Yes Monitoring and management of multiple Replay Cores (in the case of AppAssure) or appliances (in the case of Uni-trends) from a single web-based user interface.

Web-based management No Yes Monitoring and management can be performed via the _web. SNMP/SMTP/alert-based

notifications Limited Yes

Notifications are available via SNMP traps, SMTP e-mail, and alerts. AppAssure only supports SMTP and does not support SNMP trap notifications.

Backup

AppAssure Unitrends More Detail

Virtual and physical backup Limited Yes Supports virtual and physical environments. AppAssure has limited support for physical environments, largely due to the lack of protection for heterogeneous environments. Heterogeneous backup No Yes AppAssure only supports Windows environments, while Unitrends supports a variety of operating systems,

applica-tions, and hypervisors. Heterogeneous storage

protection Limited Yes

Support for protecting NAS and SAN volumes. AppAssure only supports SAN and DAS configurations. NAS is not sup-ported by AppAssure. Unitrends supports SANs, NASs and DAS configurations.

Integrated fixed/rotational

archiving No Yes Integrated disk-to-disk-to-disk, -tape, -SAN, and -NAS for both long-term retention and disaster recovery. Continuous incrementals

supported Yes Yes Continuous-based incremental backup is available (in-cludes near-CDP snapshot). VMware CBT (Change

Block Tracking) No Yes

Support for VMware CBT is available. AppAssure does not leverage the vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) and relies on the "Smart Agents" to be installed in the guest virtual machines.

Support for Hyper-V

Clus-ter Shared Volumes (CSV) No Yes Protect virtual machines configured in a Clustered Shared Volume configuration. Hyper-V CBT (Change

Block Tracking) No Yes

Support for Hyper-V CBT (which Microsoft does not sup-port) is available. AppAssure seems to protect the entire host volumes rather than tracking the changes on the virtual machine hard disks.

Application-level backups Yes Yes Application-level backup is available. Differential backups

sup-ported Yes Yes Differential backup is available.

Direct backup to tape No No Direct backup to tape (also called D2T) is available. Maximum concurrent

AppAssure vs Unitrends

Technology

AppAssure Unitrends More Detail

Supports agents Yes Yes Supports client-level, agent-based protection where neces-_sary. Supports agentless No Yes Supports agentless-based protection where necessary; Unitrends supports agentless-based protection for

VM-ware, NAS storage, and iSeries (AS400) environments. Deduplication Yes Yes Supports deduplication; Unitrends supports target-based, byte-level (content-aware) deduplication. AppAssure

sup-ports target level, block deduplication.

Retention control policies Limited Yes Supports minimum and maximum retention settings. Encryption No Yes At least AES-256 level encryption. AppAssure does not support encryption of data. Unitrends encrypts data at rest

as well as in-flight to the off-premise appliance. Failover virtualization Yes Yes Supports Windows and VMware instant recovery. Grid-based scalability No Yes Backup servers (AppAssure Replay Cores or Unitrends appliances) are configured in a grid for interoperability,

monitoring, and management. Integrated symmetric and

asymmetric replication Yes Yes

AppAssure supports replication to a private cloud; Uni-trends offers both private and public cloud protection for disaster recovery.

Hub-spoke replication Yes Yes AppAssure supports replication to a private cloud; Uni-trends offers both private and public cloud protection for disaster recovery.

Integrated peer-to-peer

replication Yes Yes

AppAssure supports replication to a private cloud; Uni-trends offers both private and public cloud protection for disaster recovery.

Integrated private cloud

replication Yes Yes

AppAssure supports replication to a private cloud; Uni-trends offers both private and public cloud protection for disaster recovery.

Integrated public cloud

replication No Yes

AppAssure does not seem to support public cloud disaster recovery; Unitrends offers Vault2Cloud, which is a multi-tenant public cloud disaster recovery solution.

Unitrends makes this document available for informational purposes only. While we do our best to keep this up-to-date and accurate, we can not and do not represent, warrant or guarantee that it is complete, accurate, or up-to-date, nor does Unitrends offer any certification or guarantee with respect to the opinions expressed herein. Changing circum-stances may change the accuracy of the content herein. Opinions presented in this reflect judgment at the time of publication and are subject to change. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document, Unitrends assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, or damages resulting from the use of the information herein.

Thank you all for the great feedback – keep it coming! If you have a question, or believe

there is an error in our reporting, please contact us at info@unitrends.com

About Unitrends

Family of scalable, integrated backup, archiving and di-saster recovery appliances enables businesses to de-crease capital and operational costs associated with procurement, integration, management, monitoring and troubleshooting of disparate hardware and software tech-nologies. A federated, scalable architecture also means flexible deployments and no more “fork-lift” upgrades. No per-licensing fees with Unitrends No Limits Licens-ing™ enables businesses to have the freedom to pro-tect rapidly growing IT environments without having the dreaded “backup tax” imposed - no nickel and diming on protected system count, operating systems or applica-tions.

Enterprise-level heterogeneous backup offers net-work, server and storage administrators advanced administrative policies and multiple backup method-ologies for 100+ versions of computers, storage de-vices, operating systems, hypervisors and applications. Adaptive byte-level deduplication enables not just block-level deduplication but content-aware, byte-level deduplication to offer more “bang for the buck” in terms of backup retention. Integrated dissimilar bare metal recovery for physical and virtual servers helps in quickly restoring systems, not just data, for both physical and virtual systems. P2P (physical-to-physical), P2V (physical-to-virtual), V2P (virtual-to-physi-cal) and V2V (virtual-to-virtual) are all supported.

Instant Recovery with failover virtualization drastically reduces downtime due to a Windows or VMware system failure. It also offers better business continuity with typi-cally less than five minutes to recover your system. Live and audit modes are supported for system recovery and verification in a sandbox virtualization environment.

Physical and virtual versions of the Unitrends’ backup, archiving and disaster recovery appliances are available. They work together in heterogeneous environments to best match the needs of each business.

Intuitive, federated, web-based user interface al-lows administrators to monitor and manage one to hundreds of physical and virtual appliances from a single pane of glass web 2.0 user interface. Cloud-based disaster recovery enables private cloud via our appliances and public cloud disaster recov-ery via our Vault2Cloud. Our vaulting is WAN-opti-mized, asymmetric (appliances don’t have to be the same size) and allows true disaster recovery of entire premises from an off-site disaster recovery location. High-performance rotational archiving with disk, tape, NAS and SAN via USB 2.0, eSATA and LAN.

High performance networking support enables support of up to 8x1Gb Ethernet, 2x10Gb Ethernet and 8Gb Fibre Channel interfaces.

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Unitrends Recovery- and vRecovery-series of physical and virtual appliances provide

next-genera-tion data protecnext-genera-tion. Here’s just a few of the features that come standard with our appliances.

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_{Success Story: Arrowhead Dental Laboratory}

Quick Facts

• Need for a simple, easy-to use backup solution • Rapid Recovery • Data security • Unified Reporting Solution • Recovery Appliance • Vault2Cloud Benefits

• Easy single-user interface • Automatic scheduled

back-ups

• Rapid, reliable whole sys-tem recovery

• Expert 24/7 product sup-port

“Unitrends was hands down the best option at the best price point

that would allow us to quickly visualize and monitor our recovery

readiness, while at the same time allowing us to backup our data

within a specific time frame, all from one interface.”

Matthew Cook, Arrowhead Dental Laboratory

Customer Profile

Arrowhead Dental Laboratory is a large dental lab serving

dental professionals in both North America and Europe.

The company produces precision dental restorations such

as crowns and dental implants. Arrowhead Dental has a

single production facility and is heavily dependent on its

information infrastructure to coordinate daily operations.

The production facility uses HP Proliant servers running

both Windows and Linux operating systems, alongside

their Network Attached Storage (NAS). Among these,

there are seven key servers with a combined data volume

of about 900 GB.

Challenges

In a fast-paced medical production facility dependent on

data systems, IT director Matthew Cook, must prepare his

data center for anything. Cook was under pressure to find

a backup solution that would keep him ahead of the game

to help the facility run as smoothly and efficiently as

pos-sible.

“This is especially critical because we ship everything next

day early delivery. A case that doesn’t ship means there is

a doctor with a patient in the chair that won’t be getting his

case,” Cook said.

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“The ability to rapidly

re-store a server using the

baremetal capabilities

was far superior to

com-petitors, and allowed for

recovery of core systems

to be accomplished

with-in a timeframe that met

our executive mandates

.”

“Because we had a bare

metal image that we

knew was good, thanks to

the excellent reporting,

we were able to restore

that server in 27 minutes.

The shipping process

was not impacted at all

and our shipments went

out on time.”

unified reporting to monitor the status of all backups and detect any

issues as soon as they occured. With the company’s strict criteria for

backups, reliability was also a main concern for Cook.

Benefits

By choosing the Unitrends solution, Cook was able to meet and

ex-ceed each of his backup requirements.

“Unitrends was hands down the best option at the best price point

that would allow us to quickly visualize and monitor our recovery

readiness, while at the same time allowing us to backup our data

within a specific time frame, all from one interface,” Cook said.

The clean and simple user interface for Unitrends solution monitors

backups of all protected systems in one place. The “at a glance”

di-agnostic capabilities allow users to easily detect when any systems

are encountering a problem. The interface includes exceptional

fea-tures such as graphical reporting, flexible backup scheduling and

even a backup wizard for novice users.

In addition, Unitrends sets itself apart as a rapid and reliable,

inte-grated backup and recovery provider.

“The ability to rapidly restore a server using the bare metal

capabili-ties was far superior to competitors and allowed for recovery of core

systems to be accomplished within a timeframe that met our

execu-tive mandates,” said Cook.

As the leader in bare metal, Unitrends’ solution enables users to

dra-matically decrease the amount of time and effort required to restore

a system to its original state. This was a critical feature for

Arrow-head when their outbound shipping server went down 40 minutes

before shipments were due to start processing.

“Because we had a bare metal image that we knew was good, thanks

to the excellent reporting, we were able to restore that server in 27

minutes. The shipping process was not impacted at all and our

ship-ments went out on time,” Cook said.