Acronis Launches Recovery for Microsoft Exchange

Singapore, October 02, 2008 - Acronis® Inc. (https://www.acronis.com.sg), a provider of affordable, scalable storage management and disaster recovery software, today announced the availability of Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange, a backup and recovery software program specifically designed to provide a fast, cost-effective and flexible option to protect Microsoft Exchange servers.

Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange extends the company's proven backup and disaster recovery protection to Microsoft Exchange servers running on the enterprise-class operating system.

Designed primarily with speed and secure backups in mind, Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange gives IT administrators the ability to keep the important lifeblood of any business - e-mail - in perfect working order. The product also has a version for Microsoft Small Business Server to address the needs of SMBs.

"Email has become a mission-critical application for businesses these days. The longer an email server is down, the bigger the disaster is to a business. Being able to get the Exchange server up and running and recover emails in minutes, instead of hours or days, is one of the most challenging tasks facing most organsiations in Singapore today, especially SMEs who have limited IT resources," said Edward Lim, General Manager of Acronis Asia. "Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange speeds up recovery of Exchange servers and messages to mininise the loss of productivity. In addition, it allows users to backup and restore between different versions of Microsoft Exchange."

Not all failures are created equal. That means that the restoration procedure for a particular problem in an Exchange database will vary depending on what caused the problem. With Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange, IT administrators can:

Restorations are faster and the backup files are smaller due to Acronis' ability to back up and restore individual emails, files, folders and mailboxes and not the entire Exchange application.

In the event of a hardware failure, customers can use the software in conjunction with Acronis True Image Echo backup software with Universal Restore to do a bare-metal restore to a completely different piece of hardware and have the Exchange Server back in service very quickly.

Alain Gentilhomme, Vice President of Product Management of Acronis, said, "There is one common thread that unites every business in the world - small or large - and that is the need for emails to work all the time. A company that cannot communicate with its partners and customers on time won't be in business for very long. All of our software products are built for fast recovery, but Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange acknowledges the importance of emails in any company and has features that are specifically designed to make restoring an Exchange server fast and painless."

"We see an increasing focus on not only recovery of user data but also system level recovery of the server configuration, system state and application," said Laura DuBois, Research Director of Storage Software at IDC. "Acronis enables recovery of both. The Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange product offers not only granular recovery of individual messages but also priority-based recovery of the Exchange service itself. For some environments, near instant recovery of the messaging service is essential to ongoing business operations while recovery of older message data can occur over a rolling window."

Features of Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange include:

Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange is now available from Acronis resellers worldwide and online from the Acronis website (https://www.acronis.com.sg). Manufacturer's suggested list price starts at US$999 per server. Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange for MS Small Business Server lists for US$399.