14 October 2010
Press release

Acronis launches two disk management products designed for business environments

Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Gives IT Administrators Powerful, Easy-to-Use Partitioning and Disk Management Tools

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, October 14, 2010 - Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use backup, recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced the next generation of its corporate disk management products, Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Server and Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Workstation. Each is designed to reduce the time IT administrators are required to spend on the essential work of managing and maintaining hard drives for better performance and business data safety.

Acronis Disk Director11 Advanced Server and Acronis Disk Director11 Advanced Workstation simplify the job of moving, resizing and creating partitions on local and remote machines. They combine several features to shorten the time administrators need to convert, resize, copy, split and merge both local and remotely-located volumes. Other features include using striped volumes to increase performance, a central management console and an enhanced user interface. The new products include support for both Windows Server 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 in the Advanced Server version and Windows 7 in the Advanced Workstation version.

Additional features include:

  • Dynamic disk support - Spread volumes over several disks, plus convert existing basic disks to dynamic to achieve additional disk reliability for data storage
  • GPT disk support - Create volumes over 2 TB and get additional disk reliability against possible data damage
  • Add or break mirrored volumes - Make a basic or simple volume fault-tolerant in just one action by adding a mirror. If extra unallocated space is needed on a disk containing one of the mirrors, remove a mirror
  • Span volume across multiple physical disks - Optimise the system by combining free space on different hard disk drives and get larger volumes
  • Convert MBR disk to GPT and vice versa - Use to make a volume whose size is over 2 TB or if you need more than four primary volumes on one disk
  • Clone disk to a replacement HDD - Replace basic MBR disks with new ones without reinstalling operating systems and applications
  • Remote management - Powerful and easy-to-use tool for managing disks and volumes on local and remote machines

"As a user of previous Acronis Disk management products, I am pleased to see that the product is moving forward with new features and support for new versions of the platforms," said Anders Nilsson, a beta tester and Director of Development, NAF-Data AS in Oslo, Norway. "I am especially pleased with the ability to manage several computers from a central point."

"IT administrators have a powerful new tool to help better manage and maintain hard drives in a corporate environment, said Laurent Dedenis, Executive Vice President atAcronis. "Using the new Acronis Disk Director 11 products, IT administrators can more efficiently manage partitioning on local and remote machines."

Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation is priced at €69.95 and supports Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP.

Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server is priced at €463 and supports Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2.

To download, go to http://www.acronis.eu/enterprise/products/diskdirector/.




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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