# Unitrends

> Unitrends, a Kaseya company, provides backup appliances, virtual backup software, cloud storage and managed disaster recovery for businesses and managed service providers. Its emphasis is recovering mixed IT environments with less administration, including application-level recovery testing and cloud failover.

- **Founded:** 1989
- **Headquarters:** Burlington, United States
- **Founders:** Dr. Steven Schwartz (Founder)
- **Products:** Recovery Series, Unitrends Backup, Unitrends Forever Cloud, Unitrends DRaaS, Unitrends Endpoint Backup
- **Notable:** Canada Diagnostic Centres reports an approximately 15-minute web-server recovery following an update failure., Donelson Christian Academy reports recovering accounting data for its CFO within 48 hours after the March 2020 tornado., The company’s 2024 recap reports a Stevie customer service award.

## Products & services

- **Recovery Series** — Physical appliances combining compute, storage, networking and backup software for local protection and recovery.
- **Unitrends Backup** — Virtual backup appliances for physical, virtual and cloud workloads, with centralized management and recovery testing.
- **Unitrends Forever Cloud** — Off-site storage and long-term retention of backup copies.
- **Unitrends DRaaS** — Managed cloud failover and failback; Premium advertises a one-hour RTO SLA, Elite 24 hours, Standard and Unlimited best effort.
- **Unitrends Endpoint Backup** — Agent-based, direct-to-cloud protection for PCs, servers and virtual machines without a local appliance.
- **Spanning SaaS Backup** — The SaaS backup portfolio offers protection for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Salesforce.
- **UniView and BackupIQ** — Centralized management and rule-based alerting for backup operations.
- **Recovery Assurance** — Automates configured recovery tests and reports on recovery objectives; capabilities depend on deployment and licensing.

## Achievements

- Canada Diagnostic Centres reports an approximately 15-minute web-server recovery following an update failure.
- Donelson Christian Academy reports recovering accounting data for its CFO within 48 hours after the March 2020 tornado.
- The company’s 2024 recap reports a Stevie customer service award.

## Latest updates

- **2024-12** — BackupIQ Purging Insights alerts administrators when retention settings prevent backups from being purged as appliance capacity fills.
- **2025-04** — An interview with Eric Antmann discusses customer recovery strategy and using isolated labs for testing.
- **—** — A 2026 FIPS Mode solution brief describes optional FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules for supported Gen 10 appliances, local VMware/Hyper-V virtual appliances and specified agents, at no additional cost; publication month is not stated.

## Links

- Website: https://www.unitrends.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unitrends/
- Twitter/X: https://www.twitter.com/Unitrends
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unitrends

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Last updated: 2026-10-01