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Tools for Reaching Your Data Backup and Recovery Goals Free Tools from Unitrends

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Unitrends Data Backup and Recovery | White Paper

Tools for Reaching Your Data Backup and Recovery Goals Free Tools from Unitrends Never has there been more pressure on IT for continuity. The cost of downtime across all industries has never

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been higher. Businesses simply can’t afford days of downtime while waiting on critical data to be recovered. But IT budgets remain constrained and often split among multiple priorities. Luckily, Unitrends offers a robust set of free tools you can use to jump start your backup and recovery planning.

Free Backup Capacity Tool Here’s your opportunity to get granular file reports across your entire data center to estimate your backup sizes, jobs, schedules, and retentions—FREE. The Unitrends Backup Capacity Tool discovers all your data center files across multiple storage devices and servers, providing both detail and summary reports for backup planning.

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Performs an agentless, secure scan of your files and

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Automatically synthesizes vast quantities of storage and

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immediately renders file reports. file data into an executive-ready deck of PowerPoint slides. Free for a 10-day usage period to obtain reports of your current files throughout data center.

Free Storage Inventory Tool Here’s your opportunity to get comprehensive, point-in-time snapshots of your storage capacity and utilization and view them in easy-to-share reports—FREE from Unitrends. With the Storage Inventory Tool, you gain immediate visibility into your entire storage environment to accurately assess the current state of your storage inventory.

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Gathers storage capacity information across your entire heterogeneous environment to give you easy-to-read snapshot reports on storage at a single point in time

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Automatically synthesizes vast quantities of storage data into an executive-ready deck of PowerPoint slides featuring lists, graphs, and annotations. Free for a 10-day usage period for a snapshot of your storage.

Unitrends Data Backup and Recovery | White Paper

BC/DR Link

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BC/DR Link provides a FREE online service tool from

Unitrends Free™ is free backup software that quickly deploys

Unitrends that helps you build and customize your own DR

as a virtual appliance in VMware vSphere and Microsoft

plan so you can confidently respond to a disaster or outage

Hyper-V environments. You can protect up to 1 TB of data

and recover your systems rapidly, effectively, and efficiently.

without limitations on number of VMs or sockets.

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Incorporates the latest BCDR best practices and guides you through the process, with plenty of space to attach checklists, instructions, and floor plans. Connects the right people, the right way. In the event of a disaster or outage, you can give everyone DR instructions remotely so they can swing into action as a well-orches-

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trated team. Keeps your BC/DR plan securely in the BC/DR Link tool so you can always access it anytime, anywhere. Keeps your business current with continuous plan updates and links your team together with mobile checklists. Securely links key people to your DR plan from any smartphone or mobile device.

Free Recovery Time Actual Calculator This free tool lets you quickly calculate how long it will take to recover the critical VMs in your data center. The Recovery Time Actual Calculator is highly effective while still

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Free and unlimited virtual protection/continuity for 1 TB. Simple user interface purpose-built for virtualization. Community inspired, community driven. Contains the robust features admins need. Supports Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage.

maintaining ease of use. It requires no training or product

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documentation.

Free tools from Unitrends can help you determine your

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Automates a disaster recovery test and immediately

backup needs and plan disaster recovery. Unitrends Free

delivers a report telling you how long it would take to

backup software lets you get started with absolutely free

recover. Produces Recovery Time Actuals efficiently with

protection for up to 1 TB of production data on virtual

no impact on your production environment.

machines. As your business and data protection needs grow,

Provides an easy way to estimate Recovery Time Objectives

you can scale up seamlessly with an upgrade from Unitrends

(RTOs) for backup, disaster recovery, and SLA plans.

Free to Unitrends Enterprise Backup.

Supports VMware ESX or ESXi with vCenter 4.0 (or higher) with default ports and VMware guest tools installed. Can be run as often as needed to estimate times with different productions loads and with any group of VMs. Use as often as you’d like. It is free forever.

About Unitrends Unitrends is trusted by business visionaries, IT leaders and Pro’s who know that in today’s digital world protecting their ideas and keeping their business running is non-negotiable. The Connected Continuity Platform™ enables organizations of all sizes to protect their data and assure business continuity for their physical, virtual and cloud based environments. Unitrends offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of cloud empowered continuity solutions in a single super intuitive platform delivering unmatched flexibility as needs evolve, providing 100 percent confidence in recovery and business continuity. Unitrends’ Continuity Solutions are backed by a global support team that consistently achieves a 98% satisfaction rating and are sold through a community of thousands of expert technology partners, service providers and resellers worldwide.

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