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Educational Solutions

Acronis^® is your K-12 and higher education solution for schools that that routinely carry out high-volume PC and server deployments, bare-metal recoveries to dissimilar platforms, and system backups and recoveries within Windows^® and Linux^® environments. In many cases, choosing an Acronis solution can save money and much of the time traditionally spent administering system resources.

School districts and higher education institutions rely on Acronis software to move, manage and maintain vital information. Acronis uses patented snapshot imaging technology to deliver a comprehensive and cost-effective lineup of backup and recovery, disk restore, deployment and system migration products. They work seamlessly with both physical and virtual servers as well as workstations. Intuitive user interfaces help even novice administrators take on management tasks with greater confidence than ever before.

Configuring PCs and servers for deployment, handling routine system failures and responding to natural and human disasters are just some of the challenges educational IT teams face to secure information technology systems and keep them fully operational.

Acronis delivers comprehensive, reliable, and cost-effective backup and recovery, and system-building products for your IT infrastructures using proven image-based technology. Acronis True Image Echo™ works seamlessly with both physical and virtual servers, as well as workstations, in either Windows^® or Linux^® environments.

Deployments

Would your school district like to simultaneously configure hundreds or thousands of PCs in preparation for the new school year? Acronis Snap Deploy^® 3 for PCs provides the answer to this annual rite. IT managers face steep challenges to configure and deploy new servers in a distributed environment. They can use Snap Deploy^® 3 to leverage any college’s or university’s ability to deploy or restore servers quickly using a standard configuration for a new machine. Both products significantly decrease support overhead traditionally associated with this work.

Disaster Recovery

When disaster strikes, getting your organization’s servers up and running again is crucial. Few organizations can afford the time it takes to rebuild a server from scratch, loading the OS, the applications, all of the user data, printer drivers and more. This process not only leads to mistakes, but it can also take days to accomplish, leaving users without access to information.

Acronis True Image simplifies the task of bringing up a new server: simply point to an image of the old server and restore the entire system. The image will

• restore the OS, applications and all of the user data with a single request,
• maintain the integrity of all of the folders, logins and other information, and
• reduce system recovery time from days to hours.

Data Center Migrations

Has your IT group outgrown its Data Center? Are you concerned about moving off an aging server? Consolidating servers to a virtual environment? Looking to cut costs by reducing the number of servers? Or physically moving a server to another location?

Much like a disaster recovery scenario, a data center migration requires the IT staff to build the servers from scratch. Loading in the OS, applications, user data, printers, and drivers can be a cumbersome and time-consuming process which leaves users without access to vital information for a longer length of time than they may be able to tolerate.

Using Acronis True Image you can have servers ready to go minutes. If you would prefer to restore to a different configuration you can do so with Acronis Universal Restore. It enables a disk image can be restored on a server with a dissimilar hardware profile with all the ease of migrating to a duplicate configuration.

Bare Metal Installations

Hardware and servers wear out and become obsolete, but the data can be valid for years. Acronis^® True Image Echo™ allows you to create the exact server disk image for complete server backup and disk cloning, providing the industry’s fastest bare-metal server restore and dramatically reducing downtime and IT costs. Using Acronis True Image Echo to take a backup image of a server, a bare metal restore becomes an even more reliable server backup and restore solution.

Virtualization

Virtualization is a hot topic in the education today. Virtualization allows a single physical server host multiple virtual servers by sharing resources across multiple environments. It helps colleges and universities reduce the cost of computing infrastructures through VMware- or Microsoft-based virtualization initiatives.

Acronis True Image Virtual Edition, used with Universal Restore, is the key to providing hardware portability. It simplifies migration from physical to virtual servers (P2V), physical to physical servers (P2P), virtual to physical servers (V2P), virtual to virtual servers (V2V), and manages disaster recovery for virtual or physical server environments.

When using Acronis True Image with Universal Restore to back up an entire system, the backup image can be moved as a single block of information to a new server, even if you are moving a physical server to a virtual one, or vice versa. By moving applications, files, folders or entire servers as an image between environments, restorations can be completed with minimal interruption to user productivity.

Continuity Planning

When it comes to planning for operational continuity, a disk imaging product can provide a key solution. Acronis True Image delivers a comprehensive, reliable and cost-effective contribution to your ability to operate continuously, whether you face malfunctions, malware, or natural and man-made disasters. Moreover, True Image works flawlessly in calmer situations, helping speed data center migrations, bare metal installations, and virtualization projects.