Nov. 3, 2009 (Business Wire) -- Unitrends (www.unitrends.com), the leader in affordable, heterogeneous disk-based data protection appliances, today announced that Michael Coney has been appointed president and CEO by the Unitrends board of directors. Coney is a technology industry veteran with many years of management successes at high-growth companies.

“Mike is a seasoned leader and an expert in achieving world-class operational performance,” said Larry Wilson, chairman of the board of directors for Unitrends. “During his time on our board, Mike has provided insightful guidance for Unitrends’ sales and marketing organizations and successful strategic counsel for the company’s market development efforts. We are pleased to benefit from his leadership and expertise full time as he takes the helm for Unitrends and guides the company’s new plans for expansion and growth.”

Prior to joining Unitrends as CEO, Coney served as the president and general manager of Acronis Americas. Before his time with Acronis, Coney held various executive and management positions at high-growth companies including VERITAS, Sun Microsystems, Ingres, and Monster.com. Coney also served six years in the Armed Forces as a member of the United States Army Intelligence Team. He is a graduate of the Executive Leadership Program at the Wharton School of Business, and he earned a Bachelor's degree from the New York Institute of Technology.

“Unitrends is an impressive company with superior technology and a history of solid performance,” said Coney. “I’m very pleased to be joining the company’s management team. Unitrends’ growth is accelerating as customers recognize the high value and innovation behind the company’s disk-based data protection appliances. I look forward to helping the Unitrends team further its success as we expand into new markets and grow existing ones.”

About Unitrends

Small and medium businesses have the same critical reliance on the integrity of their data as enterprises, but often can’t afford the operational expenditure of a dedicated staff or the capital expenditure of replacing their IT infrastructure. Unitrends provides enterprise-level data protection, at the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry, through a family of scalable disk-based data protection appliances that integrate and protect existing heterogeneous computer and storage systems through a single, intuitive, graphical user interface. Information about Unitrends can be found at http://www.unitrends.com.