improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral . please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable independent third party sources . august 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . march 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message unitrends corporation type private industry information technology founded 1989 headquarters burlington ma united states key people kevin weiss ceo mark campbell cto products backup and disaster recovery appliances and related products website www.unitrends.com unitrends inc. is a us based company specializing in backup and business continuity . the company s portfolio of virtual physical and cloud solutions provides adaptive protection and network based disk to disk vertically integrated backup appliances for data protection and disaster recovery . 1 contents 1 products 2 technology 3 history 4 growth and acquisition 5 partner programs 6 2014 2015 7 awards 8 references 9 external links products edit unitrends produces a number of physical appliances ranging from small desktop backup appliances to large rack mounted backup appliances . unitrends also produces virtual appliances for vmware and hyper v marketed as unitrends enterprise backup . the physical appliances typically consist of some level of redundant components ; most notably raid in the form of raid 1 raid 6 and raid 10 . 2 these appliances have a personality that allows each to perform either on premises backup off premises disaster recovery or through a technology known as cross vaulting a form of replication an appliance may concurrently perform on premises backup and off premises disaster recovery . 3 unitrends also offers a multi tenant public cloud based service that the company calls unitrends cloud . the company states that unitrends cloud is based on its previous product offering using its backup appliances to perform off premises disaster recovery in a single tenant private cloud deployment methodology . 4 offering deploys as or in protects recovery series physical appliance virtual hyper v and vmware deep virtual hyper v and vmware physical 100 versions converged cisco ucs unitrends enterprise backup virtual appliance virtual hyper v and vmware deep virtual hyper v and vmware physical 100 versions converged cisco ucs unitrends virtual backup virtual appliance virtual xenserver reliabledrtm windows software virtual vmware & hyper v unitrends cloud public cloud recovery series unitrends enterprise backup technology edit unitrends uses file and image based backup techniques coupled with storage based and in flight encryption compression and data deduplication . the technology supports bare metal restore as well as file based recovery . 5 unitrends supports a form of disk staging in what it terms as d2d2x disk to disk to any where x can be a disk a tape a private single tenant cloud or a public multi tenant cloud . 6 the company attempts to sell its support of storage operating system and application heterogeneity and claims that it supports over 100 versions of operating systems and applications . 7 unitrends states that it uses a web 2.0 user interface that allows it to manage from one to hundreds of its appliances in a single pane of glass . 8 products are available through a network of dealers and value added resellers . history edit since its inception in the mid 1980s unitrends software corporation has been at the forefront of backup and crash recovery technology . the first with a software solution for system crashes the company today provides a comprehensive set of tools to help manage and protect business critical data while providing 100 percent data availability . unitrends originated from a sole proprietorship called medflex which was founded in 1985 by steve w. schwartz m.d. 9 to help fund medical missions . the first product ctar compressing tape archiver was originally developed to handle the backup problems schwartz encountered in his own medical office . after perfecting the program it was sold commercially . in 1988 unitrends developed the first complete crash recovery product for santa cruz operation 10 s xenix systems originally called jet restoreease . unitrends supported additional operating systems for sco such as openserver and unixware . unitrends started as a stand alone unix backup software company and provided baremetal recovery for platforms like the sco offerings . baremetal was later ported to sco unix and renamed system crash air bag . this popular software package allowed full recovery from a system crash within 18 minutes or less . from 1988 to 1991 10 other software products were written for the xenix and unix environments and in 1999 unitrends released their backup professional client server backup software . in september 2002 unitrends recruited a major client and shipped backup appliances to toshiba machine co. of america . the list of solutions shipped to toshiba consisted of 1u 40 80 120 and 160 gb . come november a line of 2u appliances was introduced offering 360 and 540 gb options . unitrends has held a variety of locations during its existence . initially based out of myrtle beach south carolina headquarters were relocated further inland to columbia in november 2003 while support and development remained on the coast until 2005 . in 2014 headquarters were moved again to burlington massachusetts . 11 where they remain today . growth and acquisition edit on october 31 2013 unitrends was acquired by insight venture partners 12 a large global private equity and venture capital firm . shortly after this acquisition unitrends obtained phd virtual on december 16 adding the resume of this virtual backup and disaster recovery solution innovator to its own . unitrends acquired another company on may 29 2014 taking over australian based yuruware another innovator of data protection technology who had served companies such as openstack and amazon web services . partner programs edit unitrends offers partners program for resellers and msps currently working with thousands of companies from across the country . 2014 2015 edit the executive and operational management of unitrends include kevin weiss president ceo mark campbell cto 13 brad miller cfo 14 awards edit dcig virtual server backup software guide 2014 2015 best in class ranked 1 2015 business solutions best channel vendors 2015 recognized crn tech innovators award 2014 honorable mention inc. 500 5000 of 2014 ranked 1010 deloitte s 2014 technology fast 500 ranked 198 unitrends is part of insight venture partners investment portfolio . 15 references edit unitrends company about unitrends unitrends appliance appliance overview unitrends vault2cloud vaulting launches new cloud based rapid recovery service unitrends appliance appliance overview lto 5 d2t d2d and d2d2x backup unitrends delivers backup simplicity with d2d appliances colocube and unitrends partner on cloud dr service 1 santa cruz operation unitrends company contact us insight venture partners mark campbell coo of unitrends 2 unitrends company investors external links edit unitrends official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title unitrends & oldid 729834734 categories companies based in massachusettssoftware companies of the united states by statehidden categories articles lacking reliable references from august 2015all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles with a promotional tone from march 2015all articles with a 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