Vendor seeks to partner with more virtualisation resellers
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, 12 January, 2012 - Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced that it has added 3,000 new partners in the last six months of 2011, following the introduction of its new Global Partner Programme, bringing its worldwide total to over 25,000 partners.
The increase in the number of registered channel partners has been partly attributed to the introduction of the new Global Partner Programme which significantly improves the tools, assets and support available to Acronis partners. It is a multi-tier progression-based programme offering financial benefits, expanded use of support tools, special pricing, technical training and marketing collateral.
"The value proposition of the partner programme appears to be resonating. More resellers are choosing Acronis, which coupled with good satisfaction rates of our current partners in Europe1, is demonstrating that our strategy is working. Acronis continues to be a company which truly cares about its partner community," commented David Blackman, General Manager Northern Europe and MEA, Acronis.
Acronis has also recently introduced two new products to enable channel partners to provide solutions for backup and disaster recovery for the growing number of SMBs wishing to move their infrastructure to a virtual environment. Acronis Backup & Recovery® 11 Virtual Edition provides integrated data protection and disaster recovery to IT administrators with an infrastructure including physical, virtual and cloud platforms, and Acronis® vmProtect™ 6, which provides backup and recovery for VMware™ vSphere® environments. Independent tests show Acronis vmProtect to be three times faster than the leading competitor to install and start to backup VMware vSphere virtual servers.2
Acronis is focused on recruiting virtualisation specific partners to match its product set which enables simple and fast backup. By registering on the Acronis partner portal and becoming an Acronis Authorised partner, resellers are entitled to certain benefits, such as receiving a free Acronis vmProtect 6 NFR covering 4 CPUs.
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.