Unitrends vs. Veeam Data Platform

Unitrends

Veeam Data Platform

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Veeam Data Platform	Score8.6 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.	$428 per year per 5 instances

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	Unitrends	Veeam Data Platform
Considered Both Products	Kaseya Verified User Chose Unitrends Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery's artificial intelligence plays a major role in all the appliances that run a scanning procedure during each and every backup to analyze the change logs of the files and identify if the backups are infected by Incentivized Helpful? Dan Reynolds Senior System Administrator in Information Technology at BLDD Architects (Architecture & Planning, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends I know many, many people use Veeam. And for years, there were free versions and such. For some reason, Veeam and I didn't get along well. I didn't like all the extra parts and pieces to make it work. Unitrends [Data Center Backup and Recovery] is one simple appliance. As I've … Incentivized Helpful? Bassem Rawas Director of IT in Information Technology at Techspan Industries Inc (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends Veeam seems like a decent product which may cost a little more, Dell EMC Networker is a good product, but the interface is very clunky and difficult to navigate, while also being a much more expensive solution. I believe they are all good products. Based on reviews, … Incentivized Helpful? Steve MItchell Dir of IT in Information Technology at VT GROUP (Hospitality, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends Too many gotchas/network hiccups with other options we've used. The Unitrends solution leverages the native storage subsystems which no performance impact during backup/replications. Azure Backup is too expensive for our needs. 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? john adamski sysadmin in Information Technology at graceland university (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Unitrends We used Data Protector for at least a decade before moving to Unitrends. we like DP a lot but at time of migration they didn't have a few features for virtualized items. I understand DP does not. If DP had the needed features we would have probably stayed with DP. Luckily … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Lane Network Administrator in Information Technology at Precious Moments Inc (Retail, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends Unitrends UB software makes management of backup sets very simple, Backup Exec was incredibly difficult to manage. It was reliable, but recovery was a daunting process, it always worked, but never seemed certain. CrashPlan is an excellent alternative for a smaller footprint, it … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Virasami IT Manager in Information Technology at C.B Powell Ltd (Food & Beverages, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends We have used a number of backup solutions, but the ease of use stands out with Unitrends [Data Center Backup and Recovery] Incentivized Helpful? Edwin Labirua Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at Leviton (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Unitrends Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery provide more features than Synology DiskStation. Unlike the Synology DiskStation it has instant recovery features and can backup databases, Microsoft SQL, etc. Both are capable of deduplication and compression and can backup VMWare … Incentivized Helpful? Demarius Gaither Director of Technology in Information Technology at Fairfield County School District (Primary/Secondary Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Unitrends [Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery] gave us more "bang for the buck." Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends We tried some less-than-Enterprise level solutions like Iperius and Duplicati, but we settled on a Veeam-based solution for the long term. Unitrends has some good parts and is way better than the lower level solutions, but the price of upgrading was way way out of our budget … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends They are both similar in nature. I think Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery may be easier to configure and monitor. Veeam seems to need a bit more product understanding in order to fully implement.Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery is more intuitive. Tech … Incentivized Helpful? Victor Cenac Senior Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Fuller Theological Seminary (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Unitrends Compare to the competition, I found that Unitrends Data [Center] Backup and Recovery works without need for constant attention. It does not need high end hardware to run on, compared to the competition, also. Our VDP installation had to be rebuilt almost monthly. It came with a … Incentivized Helpful? James Warthen Linux Administrator in Information Technology at Check Point Software Technologies (Computer & Network Security, 501-1000 employees) Chose Unitrends My biggest issue [is that I] wanted to get off Tapes and [I] looked [at] B2D Appliances Unitrends; [it] was one of the few that checked all the boxes. 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 After reviewing other backup solutions prior to deciding on Unitrends backup systems, I have a chance to evaluate and learned it’s pro and con on each backup system as well as comparing pricing. Unitrends was the best choice at the time for what I need to replace my old backup … 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 Less expensive and can accomplish mostly the same things. Incentivized Helpful? James Fry Director of IT in Information Technology at Martin Door Manufacturing (Building Materials, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends I laid out some simple requirements going into this process. I wanted to be able to back up my Hyper-V environment (just two standalone hosts) including the VM's and the hosts themselves (the OS at least, not the vhd/vhdx files of course), 1-2 bare metal servers that were still … 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? Verified User Chose Unitrends VEEAM is the product that I decided to go to from Unitrends recently, as it is something that I have relied on in past companies. I am happy with the backups, however they do take up a lot more space than what Unitrends has provided. Barracuda does not have the same ROI as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends We have evaluated Veeam and Clumio as alternatives to Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery. We choose to stay with Unitrends' solution as their customer support and appliance work very well within our environment for maintaining backups for our physical servers. Unitrend's … Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Holbrook Systems and Network Administrator in Information Technology at Associations International (Non-profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends With feature improvements in recent years, Unitrends has become a great bang for your buck back up solution. Veeam is still a leader in the industry but with its feature set and pricing, Unitrends has been a great purchase for our organization. I feel confident in its ability … Incentivized Helpful? Jeremy Ough IT Manager in Information Technology at 3 different companies on the West Coast (Food & Beverages, 201-500 employees) Chose Unitrends Veeam product is far too "clunky" and difficult to manage. Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery provides a much easier solution and gives the customer peace of mind knowing their data is protected. Symantec was built on an older system and not reliable, I went with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends The [Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery] solution sold themselves on an on-site solution that provides fast back-ups, quality compression, and deduplication rates. They also provide quality customer service and are timely whenever there is a need to have drives … Incentivized Helpful?	Veeam Software Verified User Chose Veeam Data Platform The support from Kaseya has been fantastic. I always feel like a Tier 1 customer when I ask for support. Kaseya's tight integration with O365 allowed me to set up cloud based backups for that environment with just a few clicks. When it was time to deploy Unitrends, a support … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Veeam Data Platform From what i recall Veeam Data Platform is far more feature rich with VM backups than either Unitrends or veritas Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Veeam Data Platform Veeam is more flexible and more intuitive than what the Unitrends appliances were. Incentivized Helpful? Karen Thompson IT Manager in Information Technology at Anonymous (Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees) Chose Veeam Data Platform I've used Unitrends most recently. I really love Unitrends and tried to switch this last time I renewed support for Veeam Data Platform; however, it was not cost effective. Unfriends would have cost 4 times as much as Veeam Data Platform. As for the others, the features of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Veeam Data Platform Datto is the easiest, but it's quite expensive. Shadowprotect used to be good, but SPX isn't very good at all. Unitrends we had nothing but problems with. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Friedli Level 2 Support Analyst in Information Technology at Springthrough Consulting (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Veeam Data Platform ShadowProtect seemed to offer a lot of good options, and Datto is a great cheaper alternative if the heftier features of Veeam are not needed. However, Unitrends was a terrible experience all around. Unitrends support is pretty good, but there were a lot of broken backup job … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Veeam Data Platform I am still getting to know Unitrends, but they seem pretty equal. Incentivized Helpful? Samuel Fershteyn Director Of Information Technology in Information Technology at BHM Healthcare Solutions (Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees) Chose Veeam Data Platform Used and evaluated: Zerto, Actifio, Unitrends/Boomerang, Double-Take. Veeam platform with Veeam One Management Suite provide a complete and reliable solution to empower business continuity and DR processes. Perfect fit for Visualized Data Centers, intuitive, not heavy on … Incentivized Helpful? Derek Schroeder Service Manager in Information Technology at Kloud9 (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Veeam Data Platform Veeam is the best of software-only solutions. Carbonite and Mozy may have more economical pricing but require constant monitoring and maintenance to work well. Veeam is extremely reliable and easy to use. Barracuda Backup and Unitrends are primarily BDR appliances, while Unitren… Incentivized Helpful? Bear Golightly IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager in Information Technology at Nashville Wraps (Wholesale, 51-200 employees) Chose Veeam Data Platform Backup Exec I would rather die than use Backup Exec ever again. Incentivized Helpful? Ryhlen Schoeberl Server Administrator in Information Technology at Vast Broadband (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees) Chose Veeam Data Platform I would say that Veeam Backup & Replication can be set up in multiple different environment types. With u=Unitrends, there are specific things you need to do to make it work and it is so complex to get it configured to work properly. Veeam Backup & Replication seems to run … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Veeam Data Platform Unitrends is a also a good and reliable product, however after evaluating, our company leads with Veeam, due to research and development being first and foremost, allowing Veeam to be the leader in the industry. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Veeam Data Platform We didn't have a true solution before and we went off the recommendation from our vendor to help us get the solution setup and ready to go. So far we are very happy with the recovery and the ease of use of the product. I would definitely purchase it again in the future. Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Forrest Senior Network Administrator in Information Technology at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (Research, 201-500 employees) Chose Veeam Data Platform The previous products I used did the job but not elegantly. Veeam Data Platform made it easy to install and configure. Our backups are tested using sureback and verified daily. I don’t anticipate looking for another product for awhile. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Mitchell Systems Engineer in Information Technology at KCSOS (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Veeam Data Platform Baracuda as well, all too complex and none as consistent. Incentivized Helpful? Allan Beverly Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Harrison County Hospital (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees) Chose Veeam Data Platform Veeam Data Platform beats these other platforms every day of the week. The ease of use and low cost make it hard for anyone else to beat them. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Veeam Data Platform Veeam is the clear winner in terms of ease of use. I can point it at almost any storage hardware, which is a huge win and cost saver. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Davey Backup Services Manager in Information Technology at Planet IT Ltd (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Veeam Data Platform Unlike many of the vendors above, Veeam is providing a solution that scales from one workload to hundreds and fits comprehensively in any of the spaces between without compromising the core functionality and feature set that makes it such a great product. Veeam are confident in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Veeam Data Platform For some of the products we can say we compare this with Veeam every year, but until today we have no reason to switch over to another product. Veeam is rolled out in our organization and every admin can work with the Veeam products, so there's no need to switch (yet!). Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Veeam Data Platform Veeam Backup & Replication is a software backup that just works. It's simple to set up. Coming from an appliance to a software backup has definitely been different. Our appliance vendor had better support, but I liked that I was not tied down to a specific vendor for my storage … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Happy with the feature set
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Features

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Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Unitrends and Veeam Data Platform
Feature	Unitrends 8.4 360 Ratings	Veeam Data Platform 9.2 212 Ratings
Universal recovery	9.0302 Ratings	9.2177 Ratings
Instant recovery	8.0290 Ratings	9.4188 Ratings
Recovery verification	8.0288 Ratings	9.3186 Ratings
Business application protection	8.0262 Ratings	9.2170 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	8.0268 Ratings	9.6201 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	9.0338 Ratings	9.7206 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	8.0213 Ratings	9.1132 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	8.0326 Ratings	8.9192 Ratings
Snapshots	8.0243 Ratings	9.4178 Ratings
Flexible deployment	8.06 Ratings	9.2169 Ratings
Management dashboard	9.06 Ratings	7.522 Ratings
Platform support	9.06 Ratings	9.2176 Ratings
Retention options	9.06 Ratings	8.9179 Ratings
Encryption	9.05 Ratings	9.7157 Ratings

User Ratings
	Unitrends	Veeam Data Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (372 ratings)	9.1 (661 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.9 (25 ratings)	7.8 (37 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (15 ratings)	9.9 (29 ratings)
Availability	6.2 (2 ratings)	9.1 (7 ratings)
Performance	5.6 (2 ratings)	7.4 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	7.9 (23 ratings)	10.0 (33 ratings)
Online Training	7.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.7 (12 ratings)	9.9 (21 ratings)
Configurability	7.1 (2 ratings)	7.4 (6 ratings)
Ease of integration	5.0 (1 ratings)	8.6 (7 ratings)
Product Scalability	3.8 (2 ratings)	7.4 (7 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.2 (2 ratings)	9.9 (6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.2 (2 ratings)	4.0 (7 ratings)

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