Datto SIRIS vs. Unitrends

Datto SIRIS

Unitrends

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Datto SIRIS	Score9.8 out of 10	N/A	Datto SIRIS is a BCDR solution built for MSPs to prevent data loss and minimize downtime. Utilizing a cloud-first approach, MSPs can offer their clients local backup and recovery with a cloud-based repository and full disaster recovery in the cloud. All of this administered from a multi-tenant cloud portal that allows MSPs to view, manage and recover client data from a single interface.	N/A
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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Datto SIRIS

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Pricing Offerings
Datto SIRIS	Unitrends
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

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Datto sells 100% through the channel. Specifically, Datto partners with managed service providers (MSPs). The MSPs then sell direct to small and mid-sized businesses, worldwide.

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Key User Insights
	Datto SIRIS	Unitrends
Considered Both Products	Kaseya Adam Friedli Level 2 Support Analyst in Information Technology at Springthrough Consulting (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Datto SIRIS Datto is not as feature-rich as Veeam, but it still offers the main features in a great backups solution that will help in a recovery situation. It is mainly meant for smaller businesses, so it's not a Veeam replacement. From that perspective, Datto fills a great void in … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Hutchinson, CISSP IT Director in Information Technology at Infinite Group Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Datto SIRIS The customer to whom I am consulting selected Datto for reasons unbeknownst to me. Had I been involved earlier in the decision process, I would likely have recommended Unitrends, Zerto or another solution. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Kerzner Centralized Services Engineer in Information Technology at Nettology LLC (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Datto SIRIS We use Datto device because they are priced right and very easy to setup and use. I have used AppAssure and Unitrends in the past and find them both to be a lot more involved and downright complicated at times. Incentivized Helpful?	Kaseya Verified User Chose Unitrends They are similar, Datto is a great fit for smaller businesses I feel, they have a great space in multiple sites and have custom builds for larger business. However I feel some higher end enterprise level setups require larger devices. Education is a great spot oval for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends We selected Unitrends over the competitors due to a culmination of factors in the aggregate we determined was important. The balance of pricing, features, options, support and reviews from peers all worked to help us decide to go with Unitrends. In the end of our search we … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends Better value, easier installation but tougher deployment. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Newdorf Director of IT in Information Technology at The Connell Company (Real Estate, 201-500 employees) Chose Unitrends I found that Unitrends offered the most secure appliance and provided us with the most control administratively. The versatility of their backup solution and their excellent support makes it easy for me to completely endorse Unitrends. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends We use this in conjunction with Microsoft OneDrive to ensure servers and end user data is backed up. Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Ray Director Of Technology in Information Technology at Donelson Christian Academy (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends Datto needs a client on each device and that could be a level of failure. Incentivized Helpful? TIMOTHY EALER Houston County 911 IT administrator in Information Technology at Houston County 911 (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Unitrends Datto was very expensive and I only looked at it because we use Datto as our remote monitoring and management agent Incentivized Helpful? Roger Michelson VP, Chief Operating Officer, co-owner in Corporate at BNMC (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Unitrends Unitrends has worked well against the competition such as Datto, Quest Rapid Recovery and StorageCraft. In cases where there are a variety of technology platforms to protect (i.e. Linux, SMB Shares, NAS appliance, etc.), Unitrends was the only solution that would support all … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends Unitrends was priced better and had more features. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Murphy Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Stephenson Equipment, Inc. (Construction, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends We compared Unitrends to Datto. Datto has a hypervisor and the ability to run VMware VMs locally on their appliance for disaster recovery. Unitrends has the ability to do an instant recovery which runs off their appliance for storage but you have to have an ESXi host for CPU … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends Barracuda and Datto could only do cloud replication, not site-to-site. Barracuda could not act as a host server in an emergency. Barracuda was cheaper, but Datto was way more expensive. Unitrends was the winner on features and cost. Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Larson Manager of Information Technology in Information Technology at Masterman's (Wholesale, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends Unitrends provided both a hardware and software solution that was 100% supported. Unitrends guaranteed that we would not run out of storage space. Reviews of the Unitrends Backup Appliance on Spiceworks were very favorable. When complaints were on Spiceworks, the complaints … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends Unitrends had a higher feature set and greater performance. Incentivized Helpful? Justin Murphy System Administrator in Information Technology at DeWys Manufacturing (Machinery, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends AIX backup and cloud storage costs were the difference. Datto offered more features and a better interface but the cost was far too high for what the product was. Overall Unitrends just offered a better value and hit all the check boxes we required in a backup and disaster … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends Unitrends is all-in-one solution so managing one appliance was much easier than having to manage both software and hardware. Datto worked well but the solution was not big enough for our company size (500-1000 employees). unitrend addressed all our needs in terms of having … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Datto SIRIS

Unitrends

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Datto SIRIS and Unitrends
Feature	Datto SIRIS 8.0 1 Ratings	Unitrends 8.4 360 Ratings
Flexible deployment	9.01 Ratings	8.06 Ratings
Encryption	7.01 Ratings	9.05 Ratings
Universal recovery	00 Ratings	9.0302 Ratings
Instant recovery	00 Ratings	8.0290 Ratings
Recovery verification	00 Ratings	8.0288 Ratings
Business application protection	00 Ratings	8.0262 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	00 Ratings	8.0268 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	00 Ratings	9.0338 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	00 Ratings	8.0213 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	00 Ratings	8.0326 Ratings
Snapshots	00 Ratings	8.0243 Ratings
Management dashboard	00 Ratings	9.06 Ratings
Platform support	00 Ratings	9.06 Ratings
Retention options	00 Ratings	9.06 Ratings

User Ratings
	Datto SIRIS	Unitrends
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (32 ratings)	8.0 (372 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.9 (25 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (15 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	6.2 (2 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	5.6 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (11 ratings)	7.9 (23 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	7.1 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 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)

Datto SIRIS vs. Unitrends

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