Unitrends Unveils Disk-To-Disk, Rapid Recovery Appliance

COLUMBIA, S.C., May 12, 2009 - To meet the growing data protection needs for the small and mid-sized enterprise, Unitrends today announced the Recovery-610, a sleek, 1U disk-to-disk appliance featuring four 1.5 TB drives configured in a RAID-10 configuration. The new rapid-recovery appliance uses the new Unitrends Release 4.1 data protection software (see related announcement dated today) for support of up to 40 operating systems now including the Windows Server 2008 family and the Novell OES family of products. Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen virtualization platforms are also supported.

"We are dedicated to keeping our customers' business-critical data and applications available 100 percent of the time, 24x7x365," said Rob Moser, chief operating officer, Immedion. "We accomplish this by maintaining a world-class data center comprised of solutions that have demonstrated superior reliability and performance. The new Recovery-610 is an ideal data protection solution for our customers' environments. The highly reliable Recovery-610's combination of high capacity and value in a small 1U form factor demonstrates exactly the data protection solutions our customers trust us for."

The Recovery-610 is the entry-level rack-mounted system in Unitrends' backup appliance family. It offers an aggressive return on investment and is packaged in a sleek 1U form factor. Featuring a quad-core processor, 8GB of memory, and four 1.5TB drives arranged in a RAID-10 configuration, the Recovery-610 also supports optional eSATA and USB archiving. It has the same power and impressive value as our Recovery-300 desktop system, along with the higher reliability and serviceability of our rack-mount devices.

"Recovery-610 offers all the powerful features needed by today's small and medium sized enterprise with value far beyond its size," said Duncan McPherson, chief executive officer, Unitrends. "With extensive platform support and rapid recovery capabilities accessible through a very intuitive and powerful interface, the Recovery-610 is an ideal solution for today's multi-operating system environments."

AvailabilityThe Recovery-610 is available immediately from Unitrends' U.S. and U.K. VARs and distributors, with pricing starting below $6,000 MSRP. For additional information, please visit the Unitrends Data Protection Units product webpage.

About Unitrends

Unitrends is a leading provider of innovative, integrated solutions that protect and restore critical data and systems. Unitrends' family of disk-to-disk backup appliances provides unmatched protection and rapid recovery of lost systems, applications and data. The company's local backup and off-site vaulting appliances eliminate the need for multi-vendor software and hardware, and deliver an integrated solution that is affordable for small- and medium-sized enterprises. Information about Unitrends can be found at http://www.unitrends.com.