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Unitrends Steps Up: Page 3 of 4

Indeed, Unitrends seems to have a solid following among SMBs. "We rely on Unitrends' complete data protection and rapid recovery systems," said Steve Schrader, information systems manager at Zero Zone Inc., a refrigeration firm, in a prepared statement his week.

"We are using Unitrends software and evaluating the upgrade," says Darrell Statz, director of support and telehealth at Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative. He says he's not doing the evaluation himself, but he thinks it likely Unitrends' new stuff will stay. Statz first commented on his use of Unitrends in 2005. (See Unitrends Adds Capabilities .)

The hardware and software upgrade could add larger firms to the mix. Lately, Unitrends has boasted that FedEx, USPS, Intel, Sears, and NASA are among its takers.

Of course, the big league includes vendors who don't take well to upstarts and are more than willing to tackle them fiercely. Watch this space; could be Unitrends has a fight on its hands.

Mary Jander, Site Editor, Byte and Switch