COLUMBIA, S.C., Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Unitrends, the leading provider of all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solutions, today announced its Home Lab Giveaway. Users who download and register a copy of Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ before February 14, 2013 will be entered to win home lab equipment – including two HP ProLiant Servers, a NETGEAR^® ReadyNAS^® storage system, an HP Ethernet switch, and Microsoft, VMware^® and Unitrends licenses – valued at more than $6,000.

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Unitrends Enterprise Backup, the software-only version of the company's Recovery Series of physical appliances, protects virtual and physical environments both locally and in the cloud and supports enterprise-class heterogeneity, including more than 100 versions of servers, storage, operating systems and applications. Unitrends Enterprise Backup was the first solution to support both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere™ hypervisors and is the industry's only native all-in-one Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V role and Hyper-V Server 2012 backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery virtual appliance.

"While hardware is still a critical component of corporate infrastructure, more and more companies are increasingly turning to virtualization to maximize existing resources and investments – and as their infrastructures change, so must their data protection strategies," said Maria Pressley, chief evangelist, Unitrends. "Unitrends Enterprise Backup provides IT professionals with an easy and efficient way to manage data protection across heterogeneous environments. And because our solution supports both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere hypervisors, our customers have added flexibility to evolve their infrastructures as business requirements change. Simple, affordable, scalable and unified data protection has been our recipe for success. Through our free software, we encourage prospective users to realize for themselves the benefits of our technology at no cost to them."

About Unitrends
The trusted provider of all-in-one backup solutions, Unitrends enables its customers to focus on their business instead of backup. The company's family of scalable, all-in-one appliances and software solutions for backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery protects corporate data, over 100 different versions of servers, operating systems (including Windows, Hyper-V, VMware, Mac OS, Linux, AIX, Solaris and many others), SAN, NAS, hypervisors (including Hyper-V and VMware) and applications (including Exchange, SQL, Oracle and many others).  Unitrends is the preferred choice of IT professionals because the company sets the standard in virtual, physical and cloud server data protection with instant recovery that enables complete system recovery in less than five minutes while Unitrends' pricing offers the lowest TCO in the industry. Unitrends' U.S.-based support team boasts a 99% customer satisfaction rate. Visit www.unitrends.com.    

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