Unitrends Launches New Promotion for Free Data Protection Hardware Upgrades

COLUMBIA, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Demonstrating its longstanding commitment to high value and superior customer care, Unitrends today announced a revolutionary new free hardware upgrade promotion. The Unitrends Free Hardware Promotion enables existing customers with Unitrends Data Protection Units that are two years old or older to upgrade to a new, high-performance, high-capacity unit for free. The program, which starts today and runs through September 30, 2009, also offers significant long-term value by saving customers from near term uplift charges after the fourth year of their ownership of an existing Unitrends system.

“With data growth continuing at exponential rates, our customers are eager to add more capacity to their current systems,” said Duncan McPherson, CEO of Unitrends. “At the same time they desire the peace of mind that comes from the reliability of newer hardware components. We have designed our Free Hardware Promotion to give customers the new hardware they seek with special pricing that gives them a tremendous increase in hardware performance for free. It’s a revolutionary program that not only saves money today, but also extends savings over time by placing a customer back to their first year of product life to minimize maintenance agreement charges.”

Customers taking advantage of the Unitrends Free Hardware Promotion can replace their current two year old or older Data Protection Unit with a new system that offers quad core processors, at least 4GB of memory, and a full complement of 1.5TB drives. Through the promotion, customers will upgrade to Unitrends’ latest license—which offers unlimited retention based on physical capacity—and the new integrated, simple, and elegant Unitrends 4.1 software release. With the purchase of a license upgrade, customers then receive a new Data Protection Unit and a pre-upgrade license equivalent to their current license for free.

In addition, for customers that want more storage capacity and retention, the Unitrends Free Hardware Promotion also offers customers a free partial license upgrade to Unitrends’ next level solution. By taking advantage of this special promotion, customers are also able to save on standard Unitrends uplift charges that typically apply after the fourth year of system ownership. This makes the hardware upgrade program even better than free because it will result in significant bottom line savings long term.

For more information on the Unitrends Free Hardware Promotion options and restrictions, please visit: http://www.unitrends.com/FreeHardwarePromotion/tabid/212/Default.aspx.

About Unitrends

Unitrends is a leading provider of innovative, integrated solutions that protect and restore critical data and systems. Unitrends’ family of disk-to-disk backup appliances provides unmatched protection and rapid recovery of lost systems, applications and data. The company’s local backup and off-site vaulting appliances eliminate the need for multi-vendor software and hardware, and deliver an integrated solution that is affordable for small- and medium-sized enterprises. Information about Unitrends can be found at http://www.unitrends.com.