So after way too many hours doing demos, reading on these forums and others, and threatening sales people to lower the price, I am sending out a PO for my Unitrends box today. I plan to keep everyone informed how things go over the next few weeks. I do have a 30 day money back return policy if it all catches on fire.
Below are my current wants/needs for a backup solution.
- D2D
- Compression
- Dedupe
- Linux and Windows
- Vault/Cloud options
- Single vendor for hardware and software aka one phone call if I see smoke
- Easy to use
- Cheap
So unitrends met all of those needs but the cheap part. But hey, a solid backup plan might save my job one day and I like my job so I can justify that. I will be in touch in the next week or so to let everyone know how this solution is working for me, how their support is, and my overall happy/sadness is...