Carbonite Server vs. Unitrends

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Carbonite Server	Score1 out of 10	N/A	Carbonite Server (also replacing the former EVault products acquired from Seagate in 2016) is a full backup and discovery solution. Designed to recover anything from a single file to an entire system with the click of a button, Carbonite Server users can protect virtually any type of file on both physical and virtual servers, NAS, SAN and external hard drives. The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution assures that users without an IT department and those that are the IT department…	$800.04 per year
Unitrends	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	The Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliances are hardware developed for data backup and management. They cover enterprise backup, ransomware detection, recovery assurance, proactive monitoring, and cloud continuity into a single platform for organizations of all sizes.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	Carbonite, an OpenText company No answer on this topic	Kaseya Rick Dademo Senior Systems Administrator in Information Technology at MeritB2B (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends Worked with Sungard Availability Services a few years back and they were much more flexible with managing archived data. We selected the Unitrends Data Center [Backup and Recovery] because it integrated well with the Appliance and we can count on Unitrends support should issues … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends Compared Unitrends amongst other vendors. We liked their sales presentation and the product seemed to provide more Return on Investment as compared with other vendors. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends Unitrends appliance works well it has recovery verification, can be backed up to multiple destinations. Can be differential or always incremental. Can be backed up to the cloud from the same console. Snapshots can be taken of the VM and the backups are compressed using … Incentivized Helpful? Chuck Balazs, Jr. Director of IT in Information Technology at Babcox Media, Inc. (Publishing, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends I have not used or evaluated any other products similar for more than 4 years because I've been completely happy with the Unitrends solution. It has met and exceeded my needs and continues to perform well in our mixed environment. The addition of cloud backup to the appliance … Incentivized Helpful? Caesar Geiger Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at City of Oak Creek (Government Administration, 201-500 employees) Chose Unitrends In the past I have used Symantec Backup Exec, Windows Server backup and also Windows System Center. Unitrends is easier to use and I don't have to worry about licensing. Unitrends prices based on disk size not the number of units being backed up. Incentivized Helpful? Tim Stahl Interim Director, Information Technology in Information Technology at Georgia Southern University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Unitrends We are currently migrating to Veeam for our production environment, as the costs for the software and hardware are far less than Unitrends, and the software offers the same protection that we currently enjoy. When comparing the two products, I could not see a reason to continue … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends Unitrends was a complete system. It did not require additional devices or licenses. Therefore it is faster and costs less. Incentivized Helpful? Brian Fordyce IT Director in Information Technology at Roosevelt Medical Center (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends The biggest difference between the Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance and the other two options we used, Veeam and Windows Server Backup was the physical appliance. The other two were software based and were not giving our organization a fully unified backup strategy or … Incentivized Helpful? Michael O'Riley Director of Information Technology in Information Technology at International Food Protection Training Institute (Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Unitrends Unitrends gives you a better backup configuration of applications than Acronis. Veeam is a great backup solution but Unitrends out beats [them] by giving you reliable local backups. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends At the time we purchased, Unitrends was the only company I would have considered. Our very knowledgeable (hardware-agnostic) hardware consultant suggested Unitrends, and at the price we paid for the functionality, we didn't need to look further. That said, as much as we love … Incentivized Helpful? Burton Steele System Administrator in Information Technology at SnapAV! (Consumer Electronics, 201-500 employees) Chose Unitrends Each seems to have a niche and a great following but for effectiveness, managability, and value we had no question about going with Unitrends. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

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Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Carbonite Server and Unitrends
Feature	Carbonite Server 8.6 21 Ratings	Unitrends 8.4 360 Ratings
Universal recovery	8.37 Ratings	9.0302 Ratings
Instant recovery	8.28 Ratings	8.0290 Ratings
Recovery verification	7.97 Ratings	8.0288 Ratings
Business application protection	10.014 Ratings	8.0262 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	10.015 Ratings	8.0268 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	10.019 Ratings	9.0338 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	10.020 Ratings	8.0213 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	7.612 Ratings	8.0326 Ratings
Snapshots	10.010 Ratings	8.0243 Ratings
Flexible deployment	7.99 Ratings	8.06 Ratings
Management dashboard	7.59 Ratings	9.06 Ratings
Platform support	7.510 Ratings	9.06 Ratings
Retention options	7.711 Ratings	9.06 Ratings
Encryption	8.511 Ratings	9.05 Ratings

User Ratings
	Carbonite Server	Unitrends
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (35 ratings)	8.0 (372 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	4.8 (6 ratings)	8.9 (25 ratings)
Usability	5.5 (1 ratings)	9.0 (15 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	6.2 (2 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	5.6 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	5.5 (1 ratings)	7.9 (23 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	7.1 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	6.4 (1 ratings)	8.7 (12 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	7.1 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	3.8 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)

Carbonite Server vs. Unitrends

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