Unitrends Disaster Recovery as a Service

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Spec score 7.1 #17 of 27 in Cloud Disaster Recovery Software

What it is

Unitrends Disaster Recovery as a Service is a managed recovery service for businesses protecting mission-critical workloads. It installs, manages, fails over, and recovers operations in the Unitrends Cloud. The service protects physical servers, virtual machines, applications, databases, and listed environments including Windows, Linux, macOS, NAS, Unix, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Citrix XenServer, Azure, AWS, Exchange, SharePoint, and Active Directory. Setup uses backups from a Unitrends Recovery Series appliance or Unitrends Backup Software at the primary site, paired with Unitrends Forever Cloud. An authorized contact starts a full or partial workload spin-up by calling Support, after which customers receive secure network access. Automated Recovery Assurance tests runbooks in isolation and reports recovery-time and recovery-point results. A dedicated team is available 24/7/365. Replication is scheduled, with failover orchestration, dependency mapping, immutable recovery points, bare-metal recovery, and ransomware protection. Pricing is by request, with a 30-day trial and no free plan.

Spec sheet

Intended users: The maker presents DRaaS as a service for businesses protecting mission-critical workloads, with levels intended for different workload criticality and recovery objectives.Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Support: A dedicated DRaaS team is available 24/7/365 to help execute the customer’s disaster recovery runbook.Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Headquarters: Columbia, South Carolina, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Founded: 1989Read 28 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Covered environments: The maker lists Windows, Linux, macOS, NAS, Unix, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat, Azure, AWS, SQL, Oracle Database, Exchange, SharePoint, and Active Directory among the environments it protects.Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Disaster declaration: An authorized organizational contact initiates a full or partial workload spin-up by calling Unitrends Support.Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Failback: When customers are ready to fail back, Unitrends says it ships encrypted backup data overnight to the local site.Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Pricing: The maker describes DRaaS pricing as flat-rate and says it does not charge for ingress, egress, or DR testing; it directs buyers to request pricing for a tailored plan.Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Recovery access: After workloads are spun up, customers receive secure network access to the protected workloads in the Unitrends Cloud.Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Security and compliance: The maker describes the Unitrends Cloud as secure and offers FIPS Mode for regulated and compliance-driven environments.Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Service: Unitrends DRaaS is a fully managed disaster recovery service that installs, manages, fails over, and recovers business operations in the Unitrends cloud.Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Setup requirement: The service starts with backups from a Unitrends Recovery Series appliance or Unitrends Backup Software at the primary site, paired with Unitrends Forever Cloud.Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Testing: Automated Recovery Assurance tests DR runbooks in an isolated environment and reports recovery time and recovery point results.Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Workloads: The service protects physical servers, virtual servers, and applications.Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com

Plans and prices

Elite DRaaS Priced on request 24-hour RTO SLA · full failover · monthly Recovery Assurance testing · configured per server or VM Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com

Premium DRaaS Priced on request 1-hour RTO SLA · full failover · weekly Recovery Assurance testing · configured per server or VM Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com

Standard DRaaS Priced on request Best-effort SLA · full failover · onboarding testing · configured per server or VM Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com

Unlimited DRaaS Priced on request Best-effort SLA · full failover for unlimited systems · onboarding testing · capacity-based configuration Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com

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Strong points and limits

Strong points

Protects physical, virtual, and application workloads
24/7/365 dedicated disaster-recovery support
Automated isolated runbook testing
Failover orchestration and dependency mapping
Immutable recovery points and ransomware protection

Limits

No free plan
Pricing requires a request
Requires Unitrends backup software or appliance
Disaster declaration requires calling Support

Who it suits

It suits organizations that need managed disaster recovery for physical, virtual, and application workloads. Different plans target different workload criticality and recovery objectives.

Verdict

Unitrends DRaaS combines managed failover, broad environment coverage, and recovery testing. Buyers must request pricing and begin with specified Unitrends backup infrastructure.