August 16, 2011
Press release

Acronis Backup & Recovery Virtual Edition Is The Number 1 Choice, Again

Acronis Wins the Backup & Recovery Category of Virtualizationadmin.com Readers' Choice Awards For The Second Year Running

Woburn, MA, August 16, 2011 - Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced that Acronis® Backup & RecoveryTM Virtual Edition was voted as the winner in the Backup & Recovery category of the VirtualizationAdmin.com Readers' Choice Awards.

Over the last two years, Acronis® Backup & RecoveryTM 10 Virtual Edition is the only backup & disaster recovery product to have been recognized four times in the Virtualizationadmin.com Readers' Choice Awards. No other virtualization product has been consistently successful, demonstrating Acronis' ongoing commitment to innovation, quality and providing organizations with affordable, easy to use backup and recovery solutions.

"Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Virtual Edition is proven to enable organizations to safely and securely migrate and protect data within their virtualized environments," said Seth Goodling, Virtualization Practice manager at Acronis. "Acronis offers the industry leading combination of migration, management, deduplication and backup reporting that gives our customers a reliable and powerful, yet simple disaster recovery solution for their virtual machines."

Acronis recently announced Acronis® Backup & RecoveryTM 11 Virtual Edition which is available now. The latest version includes new features such as simultaneous backups of multiple virtual machines for VMware® ESX(i) and Microsoft Hyper-V® allowing increased performance for backups of virtual environments; single agent for multiple VMware ESX(i) hosts which increases efficiency and simplifies management of backups for VMware vSphere® configurations; LAN free backup to reduce CPU and network consumption and support for Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) - for Microsoft Hyper-V environments.

"Our Readers' Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category," said Sean Buttigieg, VirtualizationAdmin.com manager. "VirtualizationAdmin.com users are specialists in their field who encounter various solutions for virtualization at the workplace. The award serves as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry."

VirtualizationAdmin.com conducts bi-monthly polls to discover which product is preferred by administrators in a particular category of third party solutions for virtualization environments. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors' votes.




About Acronis:

Acronis is a global cyber protection company that provides natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management for managed service providers (MSPs), small and medium businesses (SMBs), and enterprise IT departments. Acronis solutions are highly efficient and designed to identify, prevent, detect, respond, remediate, and recover from modern cyberthreats with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Acronis offers the most comprehensive security solution on the market for MSPs with its unique ability to meet the needs of diverse and distributed IT environments.

A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis has 15 offices worldwide and employees in 50+ countries. Acronis Cyber Protect is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 20,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses. Learn more at www.acronis.com.
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