Compare Unitrends and ShadowProtect ImageManager - Mar 2022

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / Mar 26, 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Unitrends or ShadowProtect ImageManager?

Unitrends is more expensive to implement (TCO) than ShadowProtect ImageManager, and Unitrends is rated higher (89/100) than ShadowProtect ImageManager (88/100). Both tools offer the same amount of features.

Looking for the right Backup solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Unitrends Vs. STORAGECRAFT

Unitrends: Unitrends' integrated Rapid Recovery System™ is a complete solution protecting the operating systems, applications and user data on each of your computers—servers, laptops and desktops—both onsite and offsite, fully integrated, and tailored for small- and medium-sized businesses. Unitrends uses a common backup and recovery engine for providing prot...

STORAGECRAFT: StorageCraft released a brand new product in our ShadowProtect line this year: ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise. It has some features that allow you to replicate your backup image files on-site and off-site. It also lets you pre-stage a server backup as a virtual machine, nearly eliminating restore windows and drastically reducing recovery tim...

Who is more expensive? Unitrends or ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Backup software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Unitrends and ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise.

Unitrends price starts at $349 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 Unitrends Backup & Archiving is rated 4, which is lower than the average cost of Backup software. ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise price starts at $299 per license , When comparing ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise to its competitors, the software is rated 4 - lower than the average Backup software cost.

Bottom line: Unitrends cost is around the same cost of ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Unitrends Vs. ShadowProtect ImageManager based on some of the most important and required Backup features.

Unitrends: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support.

ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support.

Target customer size

The usual clients of the Unitrends Backup & Archiving software are the individuals and/or organizations from SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses that have one to 100 employees and more than 100 to 1,000 employees, respectively) and large enterprises that fully utilize the services offered by the industry of IT, data hosting and information related services, mainly with security, backup and long term archiving. and ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise's target customer size include: Small, medium and large size businesses.



Unitrends

ITQlick rating
(5/5)

starts at $349 per license

Unitrends Backup & Archiving is a backup, long-term data archiving, and disaster recovery software designed for both virtual and physical environments.

Categories: Business backup.

ShadowProtect ImageManager

ITQlick rating
(4.1/5)

starts at $299 per license

ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise is a growing cloud-based Backup software, it is designed to support small, medium and large size business. ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise received a rating of 4.1 fr...

Categories: Business backup.

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Unitrends: 3 Features

Data Import/Export
Basic Reports
Online Customer Support

ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise: 3 Features

Data Import/Export
Basic Reports
Online Customer Support
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100, the calculation is based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 (10 is high cost), based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
License pricing license pricing (if provided by the software vendor)
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Unitrend...
ITQlick rating
5/5
Score
89/100
Pricing
5.4/10
License pricing
$349 per license
Functionality
4
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ShadowPr...
ITQlick rating
4.1/5
Score
88/100
Pricing
4/10
License pricing
$299 per license
Functionality
4
EVault S...
ITQlick rating
4.7/5
Score
92/100
Pricing
6.2/10
License pricing
Pricing not available
Functionality
4
Carbonit...
ITQlick rating
3.5/5
Score
91/100
Pricing
6.2/10
License pricing
$6 per month
Functionality
9
Norton O...
ITQlick rating
4.1/5
Score
91/100
Pricing
4.6/10
License pricing
$19.99 per year
Functionality
4

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Shlomi Lavi is an entrepreneur and founder of ITQlick.com. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 17 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant and implementation expert for small, medium and large-sized (global) companies. Shlomi’s goal is to share the best knowledge and news about information systems so you can make smarter buying decisions for your business.