Dairyland Healthcare Solutions and Unitrends announced today that the companies have signed a partnership agreement whereby Dairyland will resell and support Unitrends' data backup, storage and Rapid Recovery™ appliances to their customers.

“We see great value in providing this offering to our clients,” said Alan Grundei, Dairyland’s President and CEO, “Our systems store mission critical financial, operational and patient data. The security of this data and the ability to recover it quickly is critical to our customers. Further, as more of our customers move to eliminate paper in their operations, for example scanning historical patient charts, we needed to provide a cost appropriate solution that provides for the stable, long term storage of large amounts of data.”

Under the agreement Dairyland will resell Unitrends Data Protection Units™ (DPUs) and Data Protection Vaults™ (DPVs). The appliances automate backup processes and provide complete system and data protection. Some of the features and benefits the appliances provide…

• Integrated, turnkey solution for complete system and data protection
• Provides disk-to-disk, high-speed data backup and recovery
• Eliminates the on-going management and storage of tapes
• Off-site vaulting and automated systems recovery
• Provides long term data storage platform for archiving data
• Enterprise functionality at small to mid-size business pricing

“Unitrends has a long history in serving the healthcare market,” said Sterling Wharton, Unitrends’ Chief Executive Officer. “Our products help healthcare organizations address the challenges facing their industry including HIPAA compliance, business continuity planning and data security, privacy and long term storage.”

Both companies look forward to the value the partnership brings. The relationship will help expand Unitrends’ presence in the healthcare market and provide Dairyland’s customers an easy to use, cost effective data backup and storage solution.

About Unitrends
Unitrends is the industry leader in Business Systems Continuity, and a pioneer in the protection of corporate-critical data. Unitrends' full line of integrated appliances provide powerful disaster recovery capabilities to small and mid-sized enterprises worldwide, helping them rapidly recover the operating systems, applications and information that keep them in business when those systems inevitably fail. More information on Unitrends is available from the company's website, www.unitrends.com.