19 August 2015

Unitrends has launched what it describes as its “highest capacity and most advanced” physical backup and recovery appliances to date. 

The new Recovery-944S and Recovery-946S feature Release 8.2 of the company’s data protection software. Unitrends claims this enables its latest appliances to scale beyond 100TB while maintaining the performance necessary to quickly and cost-effectively backup and recover high volumes of data.

Release 8.2 is said to offer a number of enhanced features.

For instance, it has ‘Dedupe Acceleration’ that uses In-memory hashing and is claimed to improve replication performance for large stored data sizes by up to 100 per cent.

There’s also ‘Inline Deduplication’ which offers deduplication on ingest prior to writing to disk. Unitrends reckons this reduces capacity requirements by as much as 95 per cent.

Other software features include: VMware source side deduplication which deduplicates data before it is sent over the network to a backup target; ‘In-place Synthesis’ which is designed to create synthetic backups 5-10 times faster from memory thus freeing up critical backup resources; and support for the latest vSphere 6.0 hypervisor.

According to Unitrends, the Recovery-944S and Recovery-946S are capable of backing up 25 data streams and can meet the demands of organisations managing thousands of VMs. 

The 944S offers 122TB of raw storage capacity while the 946S contains 182TB. Each appliance has 480GB of flash memory, dual Intel Gen 3 E5 Xeon CPUs, and Dual 12Gbps drive busses.

With its new appliances, Unitrends reckons organisations can now substantially reduce capital and operating expenditures by leveraging one appliance to backup more than 100TB of data, as well as boost efficiencies with a single point of management.

“Recovery-944S and Recovery-946S enable enterprises to achieve the simplicity they seek, protecting more data while also streamlining their infrastructure,” says Unitrends CEO Kevin Weiss. “These breakthrough hybrid cloud appliances redefine the economics of safeguarding large-scale physical and highly virtualised environments.”