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Unitrends Disaster Recovery as a Service
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
What it is
Unitrends Disaster Recovery as a Service is a managed service for bringing business operations back online in the Unitrends cloud after a disruption. It protects physical servers, virtual servers, and applications. Setup uses backups from a Unitrends Recovery Series appliance or Unitrends Backup Software at the primary site, paired with Unitrends Forever Cloud. An authorized organizational contact starts a full or partial workload spin-up by calling Support; customers then receive secure network access to the protected workloads. Automated Recovery Assurance tests runbooks in isolation and reports recovery time and recovery point results, and a dedicated DRaaS team is available 24/7/365 to help execute the runbook. When customers are ready to fail back, Unitrends says it ships encrypted backup data overnight to the local site. Pricing is available by request, and the maker describes it as flat-rate without ingress, egress, or DR-testing charges. A 30-day trial is listed. The service has no free plan.
For and against
For
- Protects physical servers, virtual servers, and applications.
- Automated tests report recovery time and recovery point results.
- A DRaaS team is available 24/7/365.
- Full or partial workload spin-up is supported.
- A 30-day trial is listed.
Against
- No free plan is available.
- Pricing requires a request.
- Setup requires Unitrends backup software or appliance and Forever Cloud.
The verdict
Unitrends DRaaS combines managed cloud recovery with testing and around-the-clock runbook assistance. Buyers should account for the required Unitrends backup setup and request pricing for a tailored plan.
Who it suits
The service is intended for businesses protecting mission-critical workloads and choosing recovery arrangements based on workload criticality and recovery objectives. It assumes primary-site backups through a Unitrends appliance or software paired with Unitrends Forever Cloud.
Plans and prices
Elite DRaaS
24-hour RTO SLA · full failover · monthly Recovery Assurance testing · configured per server or VM
Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Premium DRaaS
1-hour RTO SLA · full failover · weekly Recovery Assurance testing · configured per server or VM
Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Standard DRaaS
Best-effort SLA · full failover · onboarding testing · configured per server or VM
Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
Unlimited DRaaS
Best-effort SLA · full failover for unlimited systems · onboarding testing · capacity-based configuration
Read 30 Sep 2026 · unitrends.com
On the record
- 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.unitrends.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Disaster declaration
- An authorized organizational contact initiates a full or partial workload spin-up by calling Unitrends Support.unitrends.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Failback
- When customers are ready to fail back, Unitrends says it ships encrypted backup data overnight to the local site.unitrends.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- 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.unitrends.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- 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.unitrends.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Recovery access
- After workloads are spun up, customers receive secure network access to the protected workloads in the Unitrends Cloud.unitrends.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Security and compliance
- The maker describes the Unitrends Cloud as secure and offers FIPS Mode for regulated and compliance-driven environments.unitrends.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Service
- Unitrends DRaaS is a fully managed disaster recovery service that installs, manages, fails over, and recovers business operations in the Unitrends cloud.unitrends.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- 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.unitrends.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- A dedicated DRaaS team is available 24/7/365 to help execute the customer’s disaster recovery runbook.unitrends.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Testing
- Automated Recovery Assurance tests DR runbooks in an isolated environment and reports recovery time and recovery point results.unitrends.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Workloads
- The service protects physical servers, virtual servers, and applications.unitrends.com · read 30 Sep 2026
