Newsroom

Have questions?

Online Solution Wizard

Get answers

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

Woburn, MassachusettsAugust 16, 2011

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 & Recovery^TM 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 & Recovery^TM 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 & Recovery^TM 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 leading the next wave of data availability, accessibility and protection solutions to simplify today’s complex IT environments. Acronis technology enables organizations of all sizes to manage the always-on anywhere data access demands of users, reducing risk against the loss of valuable corporate data, and controlling management and storage costs. With proven technology for data migration and disaster recovery for physical, virtual and cloud environments, and secure enterprise file-sharing and synchronization regardless of type or platform, Acronis is enabling organizations to embrace new IT strategies and options such as BYOD and Mac in the enterprise. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com. Follow Acronis on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acronis.

Acronis® and the Acronis logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Acronis International GmbH in the United States and/or other countries.