Burlington, Massachusetts
September 30, 2008
Acronis, Inc. (www.acronis.com/en-us/), 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 fast, cost-effective and
flexible options for protecting Microsoft Exchange
installations.
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 all-important lifeblood of any business - e-mail - in
perfect working order. A version the product Acronis Recovery for
Microsoft Exchange also is available for Microsoft Small Business
Server.
"There is one common thread that unites every business in the
world - small or large - and that is the absolute need for e-mail
to work, all the time. A company that cannot communicate with its
partners and customers won't be in business very long," said Alain
Gentilhomme, vice president of product management of Acronis. "All
of our software products are built for fast recovery, but Acronis
Recovery for Microsoft Exchange acknowledges the absolute
importance of e-mail in any company and has features that are
specifically designed to make restoring an Exchange server fast and
painless."
"Acronis Recovery for Exchange is a very intuitive and
user-friendly product that every email admin must own," said Eric
Houser, senior network engineer at Parallel Technologies Inc. of
Dublin, OH. "It includes useful features such as the guided
disaster recovery plan creator that walks anyone with any
experience level through restoring the Exchange system, as well as
a wizard that determines the best backup strategy for your
environment. A quick and easy restore process adds to the host of
features that makes this product a requirement for anyone using
Exchange."
"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."
Flexibility=Fast Recovery
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:
- recover specific email messages or mailboxes using a granular (brick-level) restore
- restore to the point of failure, which means not having to completely re-install Exchange
- recover to a specific point in time, to a last known working state
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.
Features include:
- Active Restore: Full Microsoft Exchange Server functionality for users in seconds, while the system is still being restored
- Near continuous data protection: Continuously back up transactions to enable the complete restoration of Microsoft Exchange Server databases with minimum data loss
- Automatic dial-tone recovery: Restore e-mail service more quickly to users (providing them with a basic "dial tone") and then restore users' previous data as it becomes available
- Hot Backup: Backup while the Microsoft Exchange service is online and serving clients, allowing for 24/7 availability
- Restore e-mail from database-level backup
- The Backup Strategy Assistant: Create a Disaster Recovery Plan for any environment, delivering step-by-step instructions for recovery. Following the wizard's instruction, anyone can schedule backup jobs and restore a system rapidly, be they an experienced database administrator or not
- Centralized management: Provides a single point for the entire infrastructure, making it easy to manage and track backup and recovery activities
- Intuitive, wizard-driven GUI and command-line interface: Guides users through the scheduling process and reduces the possibility for errors; also offers full command-line interface for scripting
- High performance and speeds: Due to the ability to restore data (mailboxes, public folders or individual e-mails) from a database-level backup, rather than time-consuming brick-level backups
- Bare-metal restore: Restore a whole production server (operating system and all databases, configuration files, and data) on an unconfigured system from a bootable CD or by PXE
- Windows Server 2008 support
Availability and pricing
Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange is now available from
Acronis and resellers worldwide. Manufacturer's suggested list
price starts at $999 per server. Acronis Recovery for Microsoft
Small Business Server lists for $399.
About Acronis:
Acronis is a leader in AI-native cyber protection, unifying data protection, cybersecurity, IT operations and hybrid infrastructure to deliver business continuity, security and compliance with less cost and complexity. More than 21,000 service providers trust Acronis to protect over 750,000 businesses in 150 countries. Acronis is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. For more information, visit www.acronis.com.