Comparing Unitrends and EMC Avamar

Backup Exec 3600 vs Unitrends

EMC Avamar
-vs-
Unitrends

COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
A GLANCE INSIDE:

Company Overviews
Competitive Analysis
»» Product and Licensing
»» Support
»» Monitoring and Management
»» Recovery and Restore
»» Backup
»» Technology
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Unitrends’ Success Story

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EMC Avamar vs Unitrends

Company Overviews

EMC Avamar

Avamar (the latest version is 6.0) is a disaster recovery product from EMC. Avamar has the most
advanced data deduplication offering among all backup vendors because it is their primary area
of focus. Avamar is suited for storage specialists who want to focus on backup and integrate mul-
tiple storage, networking, and software components in order to stitch together the solution that
meets their needs. This is the opposite of Unitrends’ value proposition, which wants you to focus
on your business instead of 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 hardware. 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
EMC
Unitrends More Detail
Avamar
Standard licensing does not include restrictions on fea-
Non-restrictive licensing No Yes tures, platforms supported, or per-client fees. Avamar has a
per TB capacity based licensing.
Support handles a vertically integrated data protection ap-
Integrated appliance Yes Yes
pliance - not just software.
Available as an integrated server, storage, networking,
Available as physical
Yes Yes operating system, backup software, archiving software,
appliance
replication software, and so forth.
Available as an integrated operating system, backup soft-
Available as virtual
Yes Yes ware, archiving software, replication software, and so on as
appliance
a virtual appliance.
Available as non-integrated software. Unitrends does not
Available as software only Yes No
offer non-integrated software.

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Support
EMC
Avamar
Support handles a vertically integrated data protection ap-
Supports hardware and pliance; not just software. Avamar doesn't do this with their
Yes Yes
software software product; Unitrends does this with their physical
appliance.
Proactive hardware
Yes Yes Standard support includes proactive hardware monitoring.
monitoring
Remote diagnostics Yes Yes Remote diagnostics are available from support.
Self-installable Yes Yes The product may be installed by a customer.
On-site support Yes 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
Yes Yes Online interactive chat support is available.
support
Online support form Yes Yes An online support form (or portal) is available.
Knowledgebase Yes Yes A knowledgebase is available.
Support monitored and managed user forums are avail-
User forums Yes Yes
able.
Video tutorials No Yes Video tutorials offered by the backup vendor.

Monitoring and Management
EMC
Avamar
Monitoring and management of data protection software,
Appliance-based
Yes Yes operating system, storage, server, and other solution com-
monitoring/management
ponents.
Monitoring and management of multiple Avamar servers
Single pane of glass Yes Yes or appliances (in the case of Unitrends) from a single web-
based user interface.
Monitoring and management can be performed via the
Web-based management Yes Yes
web.
SNMP/SMTP/alert-based Notifications are available via SNMP traps, SMTP e-mail,
Yes Yes
notifications and alerts.

Recovery and Restore
EMC
Avamar
Instant recovery for Recovery from a failed Windows server in less than 5 min-
No Yes
Windows utes.




Instant recovery for Recovery from a failed VMware server in less than 5 min-
No Yes
VMware utes.
This includes P2P, P2V, V2P, and V2V. Avamar has to be
Dissimilar bare metal used in conjunction with other EMC products to support
No Yes
restore dissimilar bare metal restore. Unitrends has integrated dis-
similar bare metal restore support.
This includes not only Windows but also VMware, Hyper-V,
XenServer, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and other operating
Heterogeneous bare metal
No Yes systems. Avamar has to be used in conjunction with other
restore
EMC products to support dissimilar bare metal restore;
Unitrends has integrated bare metal restore support.
Avamar and Unitrends both support a variety of operating
Heterogeneous backup Yes Yes
systems, applications, and hypervisors.

Backup
EMC
Avamar
Virtual and physical backup Yes Yes Supports virtual and physical environments.
Avamar and Unitrends both support a variety of operating
Heterogeneous backup Yes Yes
systems, applications, and hypervisors.
Heterogeneous storage
Yes Yes Support for protecting NAS and SAN volumes.
protection
Integrated disk-to-disk-to-disk, -SAN, and -NAS for both
Integrated fixed/rotational
No Yes long-term retention and disaster recovery. Avamar only
archiving
supports long-term retention to tape.
Continuous-based incremental backup is available (in-
Continuous incrementals cludes near-CDP snapshot). Avamar performs a full backup
No Yes
supported every time and relies on global source deduplication to
minimize network bandwidth utilization.
VMware CBT (Change
Yes Yes Support for VMware CBT is available.
Block Tracking)
Support for Hyper-V CBT (which Microsoft does not sup-
Hyper-V CBT (Change
No Yes port) is available; Avamar has to be used in conjunction
Block Tracking)
with other EMC products to support Hyper-V setups.
Application level backups Yes Yes Application-level backup is available.
Differential backup is available. Avamar performs a full
Differential backups
No Yes backup every time and relies on global deduplication to
supported
minimize network bandwidth utilization.
Direct backup to tape No No Direct backup to tape (also called D2T) is available.
Maximum concurrent
Unlimited Unlimited The number of concurrent backups.
backups




Technology
EMC
Avamar
Supports client-level, agent-based protection where neces-
Supports agents Yes Yes
sary.
Supports agentless-based protection where necessary;
Supports agentless No Yes Unitrends supports agentless-based protection for VM-
ware, NAS storage, and iSeries (AS400) environments.
Supports deduplication; Avamar supports source-level
Deduplication Yes Yes global deduplication; Unitrends supports target-based
byte-level (content-aware) deduplication.
Retention control policies Yes Yes Supports minimum and maximum retention setting.
Encryption Yes Yes At least AES-256 level encryption.
Failover virtualization No Yes Supports Windows and VMware instant recovery.
Backup servers (or appliances) are configured in a grid for
Grid-based scalability Yes Yes
interoperability, monitoring, and management.
Avamar supports grid-based replication for private solu-
Integrated symmetric and
Yes Yes tions; Unitrends supports this in an integrated fashion for
asymmetric replication
both public and private solutions.
Avamar supports grid-based replication for private cloud;
Hub-spoke replication Yes Yes Unitrends offers integrated replication to off-site locations
on a single-tenant basis.
Integrated peer-to-peer Cross replication between storage nodes (in the case of
Yes Yes
replication Avamar) and appliances (in the case of Unitrends).
Avamar supports grid-based replication for private cloud;
Integrated private cloud
Yes Yes Unitrends offers integrated replication to off-site locations
replication
on a single-tenant basis.
Avamar does not offer a multi-tenant disaster recovery as a
Integrated public cloud
No Yes public cloud solution; Unitrends offers Vault2Cloud, which
replication
is a multi-tenant cloud solution.

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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-
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About Unitrends

Learn more
about Unitrends.

Unitrends Recovery- and vRecovery-series of physical and virtual appliances provide next-genera-
tion data protection. Here’s just a few of the features that come standard with our appliances.

Family of scalable, integrated backup, archiving and di- Instant Recovery with failover virtualization drastically
saster recovery appliances enables businesses to de- reduces downtime due to a Windows or VMware system
crease capital and operational costs associated with failure. It also offers better business continuity with typi-
procurement, integration, management, monitoring and cally less than five minutes to recover your system. Live
troubleshooting of disparate hardware and software tech- and audit modes are supported for system recovery and
nologies. A federated, scalable architecture also means verification in a sandbox virtualization environment.
flexible deployments and no more “fork-lift” upgrades.
Physical and virtual versions of the Unitrends’ backup,
No per-licensing fees with Unitrends No Limits Licens- archiving and disaster recovery appliances are available.
ing™ enables businesses to have the freedom to pro- They work together in heterogeneous environments to
tect rapidly growing IT environments without having the best match the needs of each business.
dreaded “backup tax” imposed - no nickel and diming on
protected system count, operating systems or applica- Intuitive, federated, web-based user interface al-
tions. lows administrators to monitor and manage one
to hundreds of physical and virtual appliances
Enterprise-level heterogeneous backup offers net- from a single pane of glass web 2.0 user interface.
work, server and storage administrators advanced
administrative policies and multiple backup method- Cloud-based disaster recovery enables private cloud
ologies for 100+ versions of computers, storage de- via our appliances and public cloud disaster recov-
vices, operating systems, hypervisors and applications. ery via our Vault2Cloud. Our vaulting is WAN-opti-
mized, asymmetric (appliances don’t have to be the
Adaptive byte-level deduplication enables same size) and allows true disaster recovery of entire
not just block-level deduplication but content- premises from an off-site disaster recovery location.
aware, byte-level deduplication to offer more
“bang for the buck” in terms of backup retention. High-performance rotational archiving with disk, tape,
NAS and SAN via USB 2.0, eSATA and LAN.
Integrated dissimilar bare metal recovery for physical and
virtual servers helps in quickly restoring systems, not just High performance networking support enables support
data, for both physical and virtual systems. P2P (physical- of up to 8x1Gb Ethernet, 2x10Gb Ethernet and 8Gb Fibre
to-physical), P2V (physical-to-virtual), V2P (virtual-to-physi- Channel interfaces.
cal) and V2V (virtual-to-virtual) are all supported.



TM

Success Story: TriNet Technology Solutions

“Unitrends recovers in a tenth of the
time as its leading competitors.”
John Modransky, TriNet Technology Solutions

Customer Profile
Quick Facts TriNet Technology Solutions, a value-added reseller for
Unitrends backup solutions, offers its 50 years of experi-
ence in information technology to provide customers with
the best solution to fit their business needs. The compa-
Industry
ny partners with industry leaders specializing in network
• Technology reseller
security, Unix and Windows system integration, backup,
Competitors crash recovery and more.
• EMC
• Backup Exec Challenges
• ARCserve
TriNet Technology Solutions focuses on giving custom-
Challenges ers the best tools to fit individual business needs. TriNet’s
• Long recovery times business goal is to provide the best solutions in all areas
• No crash recovery compo- of computer networking; however, backup solutions pre-
nent
sented the biggest challenges for the company.
Solution
• Recovery appliances in vari- “We sold ARCserve and had familiarity with EMC, and
ous customer environments those products were only basic backup-restore solutions,”
John Modransky, Information Security Consultant, TriNet
Benefits
Technology Solutions said.
• Protects Windows, Unix, AIX
systems and much more
• Rapid, reliable recovery Without a crash recovery component, end-users would
• Complete and integrated need additional vendors to cover all components of a
solution data protection solution, creating complications of mul-
• Encryption capabilities
• Knowledgable support
tiple licenses, maintenance contracts, high costs and ac-
countability issues if problems occured.

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Partner Success Story TM

Benefits
As Unitrends disk-based backup solution has proved to be a reli-
able solution for years, Modransky remains a long-time supporter
of the easy-to-sell appliance.
"Unitrends bare
Modransky mentions a financial company who used EMC’s
metal is a key com-
backup, and a system crash hindered the company for days.
As EMC did not have a crash recovery component, the serv- ponent for quick
er had to be rebuilt from scratch, all data restored and the recovery."
entire system reconfigured. The process took several days.
Modransky’s solution was Unitrends recovery appliance for back-
up, archiving and disaster recovery. “Unitrends solution would
have had them up and running in a tenth of the time,” Modransky
said. “It’s not just a back-
Known for its lowest total cost of operations, Unitrends en-
up, but provides
terprise-level data protection appliances offer comprehen- that quick crash re-
sive, easy-to-use advanced software without compromising covery and vaulting
the demand for an integrated, simple, and elegant solution.
“Unitrends is a complete solution for key features including bare
solution.”
metal and quick crash recovery,” Modransky said.

“The bare metal is a key component that other competitors say
they have, such as Veritas, but I hardly see any of their custom-
ers deploy,” Modransky remarked. “And in my experience with my
customers, the bare metal is a key component for quick recovery
when systems crash.”

The Unitrends recovery appliance features a single user interface
for managing multiple operating systems, true bare metal capabil-
ities and an all-in-one solution for backup, archiving and disaster
recovery. “Unitrends provides a solution that fits in with the busi-
ness continuity practice that we have,” Modransky said. “It’s not
just backup, but also provides a disaster recovery and vaulting so-
lution.”

For more success stories, including video success stories, please see
www.unitrends.com/success_stories.html

For more information concerning Unitrends, please see www.unitrends.com

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