Unitrends, Inc., the #1 all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solution and ExaGrid Systems, Inc., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced a partnership that will enable mid-sized enterprises to address today’s heterogeneous IT environments and the sprawl associated with data growth. The seamless integration of Unitrends’ new software-only product, Unitrends Enterprise Backup, and ExaGrid’s purpose-built disk-based backup appliance offers the industry’s best long-term and cost-effective solution to these scalability and complexity problems.
Heterogeneous IT environments combine physical and virtual architectures, multiple operating systems, and platforms. Given these multi-infrastructure environments and data growth rates averaging 30% or more annually, IT organizations are challenged to address scalability and complexity in cost-effective ways. Technologies that reduce the amount of storage needed for backup and also provide an all-in-one solution are required to reduce the burden on already-stressed IT organizations.
“This partnership brings together Unitrends’ scalable all-in-one backup solution and ExaGrid’s unrivaled data deduplication to deliver enterprise-level data protection for the mid-tier enterprise. There is a great need for backup and recovery to support agile IT environments and cost-effectively scale to support today’s data growth pressures. Unitrends is extending its leadership through this partnership with ExaGrid, and our joint solution offers IT organizations complete backup and disaster recovery functionality as an end to end solution,” said Jim Caro, Unitrends Senior VP of Corporate Development and Global Alliances.
The combination of ExaGrid and Unitrends’ recently released Unitrends Enterprise Backup is ideal for IT departments that want to achieve the shortest backup windows, replace their unreliable tape libraries, and avoid costly forklift upgrades as data grows. Those IT organizations looking for solutions to bridge their physical and virtual environments can leverage the flexibility of Unitrends’ software offering, along with the GRID scalability and post-process deduplication of ExaGrid’s physical appliance.
“IT budgets remain tight as data grows and virtualized server infrastructures are increasing, which means there is an even greater demand for a solution like this, which is designed specifically to ensure faster and more reliable backup and recovery in both physical and virtual infrastructure environments. With the seamless integration of ExaGrid and Unitrends Enterprise Backup, customers can be more confident that they can get better backups, quick recovery of physical and virtual servers, and the most cost-effective scalability in the industry as data grows,” said Marc Crespi, VP of Product Management, ExaGrid.