Unitrends Recovery 938S
All-in-One Backup Appliances

Features:

Elevate Your Backup

A Recovery Series backup appliance converges enterprise backup, ransomware detection, and cloud continuity into a powerful, all-in-one platform.

Ransomware Protection

Ransomware threats are evolving faster than security software and IT admins can keep up. But that doesn’t mean paying hackers a ransom, or that overburdened IT staff have to work even longer hours—instead, let Unitrends artificial intelligence (AI) watch over your data. Built-in to every backup, predictive analytics automatically monitor data characteristics, flag suspicious files, and alert administrators to threats. Now you can catch ransomware in the act, before the damage is done. Plus, for your ultimate peace of mind, Unitrends backup appliances are built on hardened-Linux, not ransomware’s #1 target—Windows.

If your business hasn’t been hit with ransomware, an attack is coming. Ransomware is a $60 billion criminal enterprise. Hackers know that organizations can’t afford to lose data. New strains operate in stealth mode and delay the ransom request in order to avoid detection. The only way to get your data back without having to pay the ransom is to detect infection early and have the right backup system in place. But some backup systems are themselves vulnerable to ransomware infection, setting the stage for an IT admin’s worst nightmare.

Unitrends Ransomware Protection is Built-in To Every Backup

Only Unitrends ransomware protection protects your data from all angles of ransomware. First, our backup appliances use machine learning and predictive analytics to detect a ransomware infection in your environment. As ransomware threats have evolved, so has Unitrends artificial intelligence (AI), meaning your Unitrends backup appliance now uncovers more sophisticated strains of malware even sooner. This lets you restore back to safety quickly and stop the ransomware before it spreads. Secondly, our backup appliances are built on a Linux-hardened platform that is ransomware resistant, unlike weaker, Windows-based backup. Finally, Unitrends backup software makes ransomware recovery intuitive and easy, so your business can quickly get back to normal—all without paying a cent of ransom.

Unitrends automated ransomware detection and alerting gives you:

• More Uptime: Machine learning and predictive analytics detect ransomware faster than you can on your own. You defeat the attack sooner and keep your business running.
• More Confidence: Knowing Unitrends is constantly monitoring your environment for ransomware and protecting your data on a malware-resistant, Linux-hardened platform gives you confidence in recovery. Unitrends flags any suspicious files with an icon so you can be sure you’re restoring clean data.
• More Free Time: Having the tools in place to automatically detect ransomware and quickly restore back to safety frees time for other tasks.

All-in-One Enterprise Scalability

Your backup should grow with your business, not cause growing pains. Recovery Series backup appliances easily scale up, out, and to the cloud for long-term retention. Protect data ranging from 2 TB – 2 EB. Manage appliances at multiple locations from a single intuitive user interface.

The old way of backup isn’t scalable and isn’t flexible. Enterprise backup scalability is more important than ever and this means literal growing pains every time your business needs to protect more. Unitrends eliminates data growth pains with all-in-one, high performance backup appliances that easily scale up, out, and to the cloud. No painful upgrades or wasted time and budget redoing your backup.

Scale Up, Out, & To the Cloud
Recovery Series backup appliances are built to scale with your business. Increase your protected capacity by swapping in a larger appliance. Scale out by adding backup appliances within a single site or at remote office/branch office (ROBO) sites. Or extend to the cloud. Integration is built in for the Unitrends Cloud and third party clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. All managed from a single, intuitive interface.

Backup Scalability for the Enterprise
Wherever your data lives, Unitrends backup appliances can protect it. Our Distributed Enterprise Manager allows administrators to manage thousands of Recovery Series appliances from one interface. Easily meet long-term retention and compliance requirements by storing archived data in the Unitrends Cloud at a retention policy customized for your business.

Sized for Your Business
Whatever your current size and projected growth, there’s a Recovery Series backup appliance built for your business. SMBs can benefit from enterprise-grade functionality in appliances as small as 2 TB. Medium sized businesses will find a range of backup appliances well-sized for their data and built on high-performance flash storage. Large enterprises may choose high capacity, 100 TB plus appliances that are also built on high performance flash storage. Any size business can scale out with multiple appliances managed from a single pane of glass.

Unitrends scalable backup appliances deliver:

• More Flexibility: Deploy multiple Unitrends appliances at one site or across sites to protect up to 3.6 PBs.
• More Confidence: Integrated disaster recovery and long term retention in the Unitrends Cloud.
• Less Management Time: All sites + cloud are managed from a single pane of glass and intuitive user interface.

Deeply Integrated Cloud Continuity

Uptime and retention requirements are increasing. But most organizations don’t have the budget for a secondary site or the time to manage offsite storage. Let the cloud do the work for you. Unitrends backup appliances work with the cloud for long-term data retention and disaster recovery spin-up.

More Confidence with Unitrends DRaaS Solutions
Do you need to guarantee uptime and application availability, even in the event of disaster? What about meeting compliance requirements for data retention–and the ability to prove it? Most IT organizations face these requirements, but don’t have the budget or manpower for a secondary DR site. Let the Unitrends Cloud do the work for you. Our backup appliances connect to the Unitrends Cloud for long-term retention and disaster recovery spin-up, practically without lifting a finger. Built-in compliance reporting automatically tests, compares recovery testing actuals with your RPOs and RTOs.

Unitrends Cloud Continuity gives you more confidence with:

• No Finger Pointing: Seamless integration with Unitrends backup appliances and the Unitrends Cloud means “one throat to choke” if you need service or support.
• More Flexibility: Unitrends backup appliances work with the cloud of your choice–Unitrends Cloud, third party cloud, or hyperscale clouds like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3.
• More Uptime: Our Disaster Recovery services deliver quick spin-up applications in the cloud with a 1-hour SLA, so you can keep running your business no matter what.

More Productivity with Long-Term Retention
Designed to allow your business to easily and affordably meet retention and compliance requirements, Unitrends Forever Cloud delivers long-term, off-site retention. Backups are copied from your on-premises Recovery Series or Unitrends Backup appliance. With Forever Cloud, you pay only for protected capacity, with pricing scaled to your chosen retention policy. There are no surprise costs or recovery fees, making Forever Cloud more cost effective than public clouds for long-term retention.

More Uptime with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Unitrends Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) delivers rapid spin-up of your critical applications in the Unitrends cloud, at a cost significantly lower than building and managing your own off-site DR. Working in tandem with Forever Cloud and your Recovery Series appliance or Unitrends Backup software, Unitrends DRaaS provides business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) in the secure Unitrends Cloud. Multiple service levels are available.

• Unlimited DRaaS delivers spin-up of an unlimited number of VMware and Hyper-V VMs and physical Windows servers, based on the protected capacity of your Forever Cloud account.
• DRaaS per Instance delivers spin-up of a selected number of VMware and Hyper-V VMs and physical Windows servers.
• For your most critical servers, add Premium DRaaS to either service level. Premium DRaaS delivers a 1-hour spin-up SLA and Recovery Assurance DR testing for select virtual machines.

No Finger Pointing with Our Global, Secure Cloud
Unitrends delivers local backup plus integrated cloud backup. All built and managed by Unitrends, so there’s one throat to choke and no finger pointing if you need service or support. Our cloud data centers are located in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom and Australia.

• Secure, global cloud — SSAE 16 certified and can be part of a HIPAA compliant environment.
• Rapid Seeding available — Speed up your cloud implementation. Simply ship us your data and we’ll transfer it to the Unitrends Cloud and return your device.
• Rapid Return — In the event of disaster at your primary site, we’ll quick-ship a NAS or disk containing your data when you’re ready to rebuild.
• Two-way WAN optimization — Get your data moved quickly to and from the Unitrends Cloud.

Cloud Backup to Azure, AWS, or Google
Unitrends offers broad cloud integration so you can choose the cloud backup right for your business. The Unitrends Cloud offers the best value in long-term retention and best service in disaster recovery. If public cloud are part of your strategy, Unitrends backup appliances integrated with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3, and Google Cloud Platform. For easy migration of virtual machines back and forth from public clouds, use Unitrends Boomerang software (included with Enterprise Plus editions). Unitrends backup appliances flexibly fit whatever cloud backup strategy is right for your business, and our expert Support Team is available to help with any need, local or cloud.

Recovery Assurance

Don’t run the risk of unplanned downtime due to a failed recovery plan. Recovery testing is key to maintaining uptime but is often neglected because it is too time consuming. Only Unitrends delivers automated Recovery Assurance testing, fully integrated with Unitrends backup appliances.

Understand the Risks to Your Business
IT professionals know the risk to their business are multi-fold — operations can grind to a halt in the event of natural disaster, ransomware attack, or employee error. These outages can strike at any time. The only way to prepare for unknown, lurking risks is to understand the impact of an outage before it occurs. Unitrends saves you time by automating a risk analysis with recovery analytics powered by our unique Recovery Assurance technology.

• Automatically run a disaster recovery test to see reports and statistics revealing how an outage would impact business continuity, and how much data your business might lose.
• If the automated DR tests show that you can’t meet your SLAs, make adjustments in your backup process and re-run the tests to check the changes.
• Understand the availability and recovery of business critical applications like Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL Server with built-in, application-aware DR tests.

Instant Recovery and Automated Failover
Unlock the power of your backup data and use it to run your business. Unitrends orchestrates failover, making data, applications, and lab environments available instantly.

• Seamless integration with Recovery Series and Unitrends Backup appliances: backups and instant recovery for Windows Physical, VMware, and Hyper-V
• Automated failover: Quick spin up n-tier applications or entire sites in the cloud for business continuity despite a disaster.
• Guaranteed failover of Windows Physical, VMware and Hyper-V applications across cluster/clouds

Automated DR Testing
Too many businesses run the risk of unplanned downtime due to a failed recovery plan or procedure. Don’t have time for manual testing? Unitrends Recovery Assurance delivers automated recovery testing, both locally and in the Unitrends Cloud. This intelligent feature of Unitrends Enterprise Plus lets you effortlessly prove that your business meets regulatory and compliance requirements. Recovery Assurance software works with your backup appliance to automatically test and certify your recovery objectives and SLAs ahead of time. You get:

• Immediate detection and alerting of deviations in recovery time and recovery point actuals via dashboards, emails and SNMP alerts.
• Application aware with out-of-the-box DR testing for Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Apache, and any application reachable through http. Supports Windows Server and Linux VMs equally.
• Real-time and schedule reporting runs audits that prove you meet regulatory compliance requirements and automatically submits reports to appropriate stakeholder.

Ransomware Detection
Unitrends Recovery Assurance uses cloud-based monitoring and predictive analytics to help you detect ransomware before it’s too late. Machine learning provides early alerts of suspicious data change rates in your environment. Then Unitrends backup appliances help you quickly restore back to safety, without paying a cent of ransom.

• Early Detection: Unitrends’ machine learning detects ransomware faster, so you can recover with minimal damage and no ransom payment.
• Personalized Alerts: Don’t worry about a lurking ransomware infection that’s encrypting all your files — you’ll be alerted quickly to suspicious data changes.
• Confidence in Recovery: Automated ransomware recovery testing means you won’t sweat if you do have to recover from a ransomware attack, because you’ll have already proven your RPOs and RTOs can be met.

Proactive Monitoring & Support

Avoid hardware failure and keep your backup running. Recovery Series backup appliances include predictive analytics that anticipate hardware problems. Proactive monitoring alerts you before the issue occurs. Our expert Support Team will reach out and resolve the problem before it impacts your backup.

Unitrends saves you time and frustration by preventing problems. We combine the power of our predictive analytics with proactive Customer Support to solve issues before your backup is affected. This is why Unitrends achieves a 98% satisfaction rate. Our backup appliance support uses machine learning and cloud-based data monitoring to alert you to a ransomware infection or hardware failure. Our fully integrated stack means there’s “one throat to choke” when you need help, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Our expert 24/7/365 Support Team is co-located with R&D in the U.S., meaning there’s one cooperative center of knowledge for building and supporting Unitrends products. You can count on our team for complete backup appliance support as well as help for cloud, disaster recovery, SaaS backup, and more.

Unitrends backup appliances include predictive analytics and “one-throat-to-choke” Customer Support for your whole solution, giving you:

• More Confidence: Automated monitoring and failure alerts give you confidence your backup is running smoothly.
• More Uptime: Proactive and painless hardware replacement in the event of an issue means more uptime for your business.
• Less Management Time: Built-in, predictive analytics mean less time worrying about or repairing your backup hardware.

No Finger Pointing, Just Answers
The old world of backup requires you to stitch together your own solution of storage, software, operating system licenses, deduplication, networking, etc. But even if you get all this operational, what happens when elements stop working? It’s one support call for each element. Who do you call FIRST if performance isn’t solid? Who do you call if recovery in the cloud didn’t work? Unitrends simplifies that with one support call and a solid track record of 98% customer satisfaction. Plus, our predictive analytics means we’ll reach out to solve hardware issues before your backup is compromised.

• All-in-One Support: One easy support call to solve any issues with backup, recovery, and cloud.
• Here whenever you need us: Global 24/7/365 Support Team, with proactive case initiation if analytics indicate a hardware problem with your backup appliance.
• Expert Service: Unitrends Support Engineers are co-located with our U.S. R&D team and fully informed on how to resolve issues as well as backup best practices.

Hardware Failure Prevention
Hardware failures happen. Unitrends makes it painless to stay a step ahead and replace aging hardware before it impacts your backup. Recovery Series backup appliances include predictive analytics and proactive monitoring at no additional cost.

• Automated Monitoring: Millions of hardware life data points constantly monitored in the background.
• Predictive Analytics: Automated monitoring and trend analysis predicts and heads off hardware failures.
• Proactive Replacement: We get in touch and quick ship your replacement before failures affect your backup.

Shortest Time to Value

Setting up backup doesn’t have to be time-consuming. Do away with the cost and complexity of old world backup that requires you to manually integrate systems. Recovery Series all-in-one backup appliances ship fast and install quickly — just rack, connect, and go. Start backup right away and add immediate value to your organization.

To get the best value and lowest backup appliance total cost of ownership (TCO), do away with the cost and complexity of integrating components on your own. Recovery Series backup appliances save budget by combining server, storage, and software into an all-in-one appliance. These backup appliances are easy to use, saving you time, too, but don’t sacrifice performance. Expect best-of-breed functionality with powerful backup software and enterprise features, all built into the appliance.

• All-in-One Ease: Bundled server, storage, and software deploys in minutes. Just rack, connect, & go.
• Purpose Built: Pre-tuned, Linux-hardened backup appliance is easy to use. No time lost to complexity.
• Instant Recovery: Easy setup and instant recovery for any size data set.

Lowest Backup Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Recovery Series backup appliances are sized to fit your business, so there’s no need to waste money on storage you don’t need. Plus, appliances ship and set up quickly, giving you the shortest time to value. Just rack, connect, and go. The intuitive software requires 50% less management time than other backup systems, saving you time and frustration. With Unitrends, start backing up right away and add immediate value to your organization.

Flexible, Scalable Backup
Recovery Series appliances are infinitely scalable—no painful upgrades and no wasted budget when your business grows. Simply scale up with a bigger appliance, or scale out with multiple appliances managed from a single pane of glass. Or scale to the cloud with built-in integration with the Unitrends Cloud for long-term retention. Or combine all these methods for enterprise scaling that suits your organization. Whatever you choose, Unitrends backup appliances are flexible and adapt to your needs, ensuring the shortest time to value and lowest backup TCO for your IT dollar.

• More Uptime: Installs & starts backups quickly, so you’re ready to recover from data loss.
• Less Management Time: Quick setup & intuitive user interface requires 50% less management time.
• More Free Time: Efficient setup and management gives you more free time for other priorities.

Specifications:

Sized for Your Business

Recovery Series backup appliances are available in a range of sizes suited for the small business to the enterprise. With 12 models to choose from, Recovery Series backup appliances fit your environment without forcing you to overpay for capacity you don’t need. Easily scale out with multiple backup appliances or upgrade size as your business grows.

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Models	602	604	606	608	814S	818S	824S	926S	928S	938S	944S	946S
Hardware
Raw Capacity (TB)	2	4	6	8	12	16	24	36	72	96	120	180
Suggested Backup (TB)	1.1	2.4	3.6	4.8	7.2	9.4	15	22	44	63	80	118
Form Factor	Short	Short	Short	Short	1U	1U	2U	2U	2U	3U	4U	4U
Processor Cores/ Threads	4/4	4/4	8/8	8/8	4/8	4/8	16/32	16/32	16/32	16/32	20/40	20/40
RAM (GB)	8	8	16	16	16	32	64	128	256	256	256	256
AES-NI
IPMI
Hot Swap Drives					OS/ Backup	OS/ Backup	OS/ Backup	OS/ Backup	OS/ Backup	OS/ Backup	OS/ Backup	OS/ Backup
PCI Slots					3	3	5	5	5	5	5	5
1 GB Ethernet Ports	1	1	1	1	2	2
4x1 GB Ethernet
2x 1/10Gbit RJ45 Copper Ethernet*
1x8 GB Fibre Channel
Storage	602	604	606	608	814S	818S	824S	926S	928S	938S	944S	946S
SSD Flash (in GBs)					256	256	256	256	256	256	256	256
OS Disk (in TBs)							2x1	2x1	2x1	2x1	2x2	2x2
Backup Disk (in TBs)	2x2	2x4	2x6	2x8	4x4	4x8	8x4	8x6	11x8	16x8	34x4	34x6
RAID	1	1	1	1	5	10	1/6	1/6	1/6	1/60	1/60	1/60
Archiving Controller	602	604	606	608	814S	818S	824S	926S	928S	938S	944S	946S
USB 3.0
eSATA - 4 Port
SAS Controller (Disk, Tape)
Major Features	602	604	606	608	814S	818S	824S	926S	928S	938S	944S	946S
Comprehensive Backup for Physical, Virtual, Nutanix, Cisco UCS
Adaptive Deduplication
Unitrends Cloud & DRaaS Enabled
Integration with AWS & Azure Clouds
Replication Target & Cross Replication
Single Pane of Glass User Interface
Hot/Cold & Dissimilar Bare Metal
AES-256 Bit Encryption
Instant Recovery (P2V); (V2V); (V2P)
VMware and Windows Replicas
NDMP Backup (EMC, NetApp)
Automatic Ransomware Detection
Backup Scheduling
Inclusion/Exclusion Backup
Bandwidth Throttling
Comprehensive Reporting
Alert-Based Monitoring
Hardware Failure Alerts
SLA Policy Automation
Integration with RESTful API
Enterprise Application Backup
Role-based Access Control
Security-Integrated Copy Data Management (CDM)
Distributed Enterprise Manager
Scheduled Automated DR Testing
Automated Failover
RTO/RPO Compliance Reporting
Recovery Analytics
Failover/Failback to AWS/Azure
Unlimited Granular Exchange Recovery
Pledge Evergreen Hardware
Platform Characteristics	602	604	606	608	814S	818S	824S	926S	928S	938S	944S	946S
Width (inches)	16.8 (426 mm)	16.8 (426 mm)	16.8 (426 mm)	16.8 (426 mm)	17.2 (437 mm)	17.2 (437 mm)	17.2 (437 mm)	17.2 (437 mm)	17.2 (437 mm)	17.2 (437 mm)	17.2 (437 mm)	17.2 (437 mm)
Height (inches)	1.7 (43 mm)	1.7 (43 mm)	1.7 (43 mm)	1.7 (43 mm)	1.7 (43 mm)	1.7 (43 mm)	3.5 (89 mm)	3.5 (89 mm)	3.5 (89 mm)	5.2 (132 mm)	7 (178 mm)	7 (178 mm)
Depth (inches)	14 (356 mm)	14 (356 mm)	14 (356 mm)	14 (356 mm)	25.6 (650 mm)	25.6 (650 mm)	25.5 (647 mm)	25.5 (647 mm)	25.5 (647 mm)	25.5 (647 mm)	27.5 (699 mm)	27.5 (699 mm)
Unit Weight (Pounds)	14 (6.4 kg)	14 (6.4 kg)	14 (6.4 kg)	14 (6.4 kg)	32 (14.5 kg)	32 (14.5 kg)	69 (31.3 kg)	69 (31.3 kg)	69 (31.3 kg)	93 (42.2 kg)	122 (55.3 kg)	122 (55.3 kg)
Shipping Weight (Pounds)	18 (8.2 kg)	18 (8.2 kg)	18 (8.2 kg)	18 (8.2 kg)	45 (20.4 kg)	45 (20.4 kg)	76 (34.5 kg)	76 (34.5 kg)	76 (34.5 kg)	100 (45.4 kg)	154 (69.9 kg)	154 (69.9 kg)
AC Inputs (VAC)	100/240	100/240	100/240	100/240	100/240	100/240	100/240	100/240	100/240	100/240	100/240	100/240
AC Power Consumption (W)	200	200	200	200	500	500	920	920	920	920	1000	1000
Redundant Power Supply
Heat Generated While Operating (BTUs)	1023	1023	1023	1023	2081	2081	3750	3750	3750	3750	4100	4100
Non-Operating Vibration	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350
Operating Shock (2ms(Gs))	65	65	65	65	65	65	65	65	65	65	65	65
Non-Operating Shock (1ms(Gs))	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350

* 2x10 GbE RJ45 Copper is standard on the 824S and up. Supports 10GBASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T, and 10000BASE-T. SFP+ Fiber can optionally be added.

Documentation:

Download the Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliances Datasheet (PDF).