Unitrends, the leading provider in integrated and scalable backup solutions, today announced the release of vRecovery, a virtual backup appliance which operates on VMware ESX/ESXi (licensed and unlicensed) vSphere 4.1 and higher.

“vRecovery is simply the Unitrends backup, archiving and disaster recovery solution on a VMware-based platform rather than a physical appliance,” Mike Coney, CEO, Unitrends, said. “It is ideal for businesses investing in VMware-ready servers and storage.”

Physical Recovery-series and vRecovery-series appliances may all work together at a single customer site using our web 2.0 single pane-of-glass federated monitoring and management tools. The reliability of Unitrends technology in a virtual appliance creates an unparalleled advantage for companies with VMware who want to maximize return on their entire IT infrastructure investments and growth.

“Businesses are ready and excited for the kinds of collaboration capabilities Unitrends is introducing in its vRecovery launch,” Mark Campbell, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Unitrends, said. “Unitrends vRecovery for VMware, in addition to the numerous storage and archiving platforms it supports, will lead to major company advantages.”

The Unitrends virtual appliance allows customers to take advantage of the features and reliability of an all-in-one system. Unitrends features include protection for more than 100 versions of hypervisors, operating systems, client and server hardware, storage platforms and applications; continuous data protection with incremental forever; byte-level Adaptive Deduplication; single pane-of-glass web 2.0 user-interface; dissimilar bare metal and P2V, V2P and P2P.

Unitrends teamed up with multiple vendors to deliver its revolutionary vRecovery backup solution in compliance with companies specializing in leading storage and archiving solutions. Unitrends provides an innovative backup and recovery solution integrating with companies including Dell, NetApp, Quantum, Nexsan, ProStor Systems and more.

Unitrends backup solutions are taken to a new level with vRecovery as it allows businesses to leverage their own external storage and VMware investment with the power of Unitrends backup solution.

Free trials of vRecovery are now available at http://www.unitrends.com/vRecovery_trial.html.