Comparing Unitrends and EMC Avamar
- 1. 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 Learn More About Unitrends Unitrends’ Success Story www.unitrends.com © 2012 Unitrends ™. All Rights Reserved. DS-EA-CA-20120201-01
- 2. 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. www.unitrends.com Competitive Analysis Page 2 © 2012 Unitrends ™. All Rights Reserved. DS-EA-CA-20120201-01
- 3. EMC Avamar vs Unitrends Support EMC Unitrends More Detail 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 Unitrends More Detail 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 Unitrends More Detail Avamar Instant recovery for Recovery from a failed Windows server in less than 5 min- No Yes Windows utes. www.unitrends.com Competitive Analysis Page 3 © 2012 Unitrends ™. All Rights Reserved. DS-EA-CA-20120201-01
- 4. EMC Avamar vs Unitrends 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 Unitrends More Detail 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 www.unitrends.com Competitive Analysis Page 4 © 2012 Unitrends ™. All Rights Reserved. DS-EA-CA-20120201-01
- 5. EMC Avamar vs Unitrends Technology EMC Unitrends More Detail 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. Unitrends makes this document available for informational purposes only. While we do our best to keep this up-to-date 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- stances may change the accuracy of the content herein. Opinions presented in this reflect judgment at the time of publication and are subject to change. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document, Unitrends assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, or damages resulting from the use of the information herein. Thank you all for the great feedback – keep it coming! If you have a question, or believe there is an error in our reporting, please contact us at info@unitrends.com www.unitrends.com Competitive Analysis Page 5 © 2012 Unitrends ™. All Rights Reserved. DS-EA-CA-20120201-01
- 6. 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. www.unitrends.com Competitive Analysis Page 6 © 2012 Unitrends ™. All Rights Reserved. DS-EA-CA-20120201-01
- 7. 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. © 2012 Unitrends ™. All Rights Reserved. DS-EA-CA-20120201-01 Page 7
- 8. 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 © 2012 Unitrends ™. All Rights Reserved. DS-EA-CA-20120201-01 Page 8