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Acronis arms channel partners with new global training programs

Woburn, MassachusettsNovember 01, 2011

New certifications provide latest product family sales training and best practices in backup and disaster recovery

Woburn, MA, 1 November, 2011 – Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today introduced new professional education programs to bolster channel enablement.

The first of the new initiatives is the Acronis Sales Professional Certification (ASP), an addition to the courses currently provided through the Acronis Academy. The new certification provides sales professionals with guidance on how to sell Acronis products to make more revenue. The course is free to registered partners and covers everything from the key features of the recently introduced Acronis Backup & Recovery^® 11 family, to tips on how to transform leads into deals, as well as pricing, maintenance and renewal details.

Acronis has also updated the Acronis Certified Engineers (ACE) in-depth technical training and certification program. The one day on-site product training and knowledge exchange class, now also includes the Acronis Backup & Recovery^® 11 family. The solution is the first on the market to provide affordable disaster recovery and data protection from one integrated solution. The ACE course provides best practice guidance on project implementation, solution deployment and troubleshooting.

Thirdly, the Acronis Certified Trainer (ACT) course has also been updated to include Acronis Backup & Recovery^®11. Upon passing the certification, distributors can become a qualified trainer and can run Acronis Academy courses for their resellers.

“With over 20,000 partners worldwide, channel education initiatives are our first priority at Acronis and we’re pleased to offer these new courses to help our partner community develop and understand Acronis business offerings in greater depth,” explains David Junca, vice president, sales and channels for Acronis Americas. “We are seeking to expand the number of distributors trained as ACT in the US, and encourage all our partners to take advantage of these new classes.”

Existing ACEs have until December 31, 2011 to undertake the new training program and retain their current certification status.

For further information and pricing for ACT and ACE courses, please visit: www.acronis.com/partners

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.

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