Unitrends is a privately-held software company headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina.

Unitrends’ first product, CTAR™ (Compressing Tape Archiver), was introduced in 1989. The company’s founder, Dr. Steve Schwartz, developed CTAR to handle the data backup problems he encountered while working in his own medical office. More than 15 years later, CTAR has been repeatedly improved, and is being used by thousands of companies around the world.

One year later, Unitrends introduced the industry’s first bare metal recovery product, enabling end-users to fully recover from a system crash in less than half an hour. Today, as then, Unitrends’ Bare Metal Plus™ software quickly and fully restores a full operating system, complete with passwords and permissions that allow users to function in a fraction of the time required under traditional recovery methods.

The company’s heritage of innovation continued through the years, with products like Backup Professional™. In 2002, Unitrends introduced the first of its Data Protection Units™ (DPUs), the industry's first fully integrated disk-to-disk backup appliance. Today, DPUs hold a full range of data, allowing administrators to move disk-based data off-site for safekeeping, as well as to successfully implement a disk-to-disk-to-tape information lifecycle management strategy, that virtually every industry analyst agrees is the preferred method of successfully securing data.

More recently, Unitrends introduced RX9™, a patent-pending, high-performance data-compression technology that reduces backup time by 40 percent or more. RX9 is integrated within the company's DPUs, producing per-megabyte storage costs that are less than those of tape-based backup. While most tape drives offer some type of compression, RX9 technology increases the effective capacity of each hard disk by packing data more tightly onto each track of the disk.

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