Acronis and VMTurbo Deliver Backup & Intelligent VM Monitoring in Single View

Combination of Acronis® vmProtect™ 6 with VMTurbo Community Edition delivers Fast Backup & Recovery With Real-Time Monitoring Of Virtual Environments

VMworld, Las Vegas, NV., August 30, 2011 -- VMTurbo, a leading provider of intelligent workload management software to assure application performance, and Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced a new technology partnership that brings together virtualization monitoring and high performance backup and recovery for VMware® vSphere™ environments. The recently announced Acronis® vmProtect™ 6 integrates its fast, easy to use backup and recovery with real time monitoring and reporting from VMTurbo Community Edition, which is freely available from VMTurbo.

The joint solution combines fast, affordable, simple backup and recovery with real time monitoring and alerting that allows administrators to:

• Monitor both system performance and backup performance from a single dashboard;
• Accurately monitor backup and system performance in real time, enabling immediate response to failure alerts in order to maintain high performance levels;
• Provide early warnings of failures within vStorage, minimizing the risk of data loss.

"Acronis has chosen to partner with VMTurbo to give customers a wider view into the overall performance of their VMware environment," said Izzy Azeri, general manager and senior vice president, Americas at Acronis. "The ability to share information between the products in a single dashboard increases the awareness of potential failures, allowing administrators to act before they reach crisis. VMTurbo Community Edition offers a premium enhancement to Acronis vmProtect 6 customers at no extra cost."

"With an offer that combines VM backup and recovery with monitoring, Acronis and VMTurbo are giving organizations a more comprehensive approach to securing their VMware environments," said N. Louis Shipley, president and CEO of VMTurbo. "It's an intelligent data protection approach tailor-made for sophisticated virtual environments where visibility into backup performance can help identify and prevent issues far in advance of a data loss disaster."

Acronis vmProtect 6 is a fast, affordable backup, migration and disaster recovery solution, optimized for the growing number of businesses moving to a VMware virtualized server environment. Backup and recovery of multiple virtual machines can be performed through simple a web-based interface that allows remote management, even on a smartphone, simplifying management and reporting tasks.

VMTurbo provides a holistic view of your virtual infrastructure, and it delivers detailed action plans that optimize workload placement and resource allocation. The Community Edition provides an important step towards improving the virtualized data center's performance and efficiency through Infrastructure Monitoring, Problem Detection, Performance and Capacity Reporting, and Capacity Alerts.

Pricing and Availability

To try the joint solution and download a trial version of Acronis vmProtect 6 go to https://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/vmprotect/

http://www.vmturbo.com/vmturbo-management-suite-download/

For more information, refer to www.acronis.com/partners/alliance-partners/vmturbo.