With drop in storage costs of up to 99 percent, first-year deduplication savings are likely to exceed cost of software
Driven by overwhelming customer acceptance for the data
deduplication capabilities in its new disaster recovery product,
Acronis Backup &
Recovery® 10, Acronis® Inc. (www.acronis.com) has unveiled an
online calculator to quickly estimate the storage savings an
organization could realize using deduplication to cut storage
requirements. In many cases, the savings from deploying
deduplication will more than cover the software's cost.
As an example of the benefits of deduplication, a customer with
10 servers and 2TB of data that changes 5 percent per day and is
kept for four weeks, will save about $20,000 in storage costs
annually. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 and a premium support
package would cost only $17,000.
The leading provider of storage management and disaster recovery
software, Acronis also announced a limited-time competitive upgrade
program of as much as 50 percent off for customers using other
backup solutions that move to Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10, currently shipping. The program, coupled with
Acronis' license-based pricing, drops the cost of entry to data
deduplication to as much as 1/20th of software-based alternatives,
most of which do not offer the backup speed or storage savings
efficiency of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, and 1/100th of
appliance-based alternatives. The software's new deduplication
starts at a list price of only $28 (US) per machine.
"Not only is Acronis taking the bold step of moving into
full-featured data protection and disaster recovery, but they are
leaping ahead of many of their competitors by realizing the pivotal
importance of versatile and affordable deduplication," said Jeff
Boles, Senior Analyst, Taneja Group. "The Acronis deduplicating
data protection suite looks poised to both address backup
bottlenecks, and optimize stored backup data across the many
different types of IT systems at work in businesses today-from the
virtual to the physical. Simultaneously, Acronis seems to be
ringing in a new age for widespread deduplication by breaking the
requirement for capacity-based licensing. Acronis' per server based
deduplication seems bound to help make deduplication obtainable for
any business."
The deduplication calculator prompts the user for the number of
servers and workstations being backed up, the data change rate, and
the cost of data storage. Based on that information, the user gets
estimates of how much storage space would be saved through
deduplication, the dollar savings, and the percentage of
savings.
In announcing Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10, Acronis expanded its award-winning, patented disk
imaging and bare-metal restore technology to meet the needs of both
small and large organizations through a new user interface,
enhanced operations manageability, and increased scalability.
"Acronis Backup & Recovery 10's new integrated data
deduplication and impressive group policy management capabilities
make this product unique. The software deduplication offers similar
compression rates to appliance-based deduplication solutions and
has vastly decreased the volume of backups, in turn reducing
storage space requirements," said Marko Tarvainen, a global telecom
specialist Finn Telecom, a beta tester of the product. "In
addition, the new central management console and intuitive
interface makes it much easier to oversee tasks."
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 is capable of backing up and
restoring any Microsoft or Linux-based servers or workstations to
their full operating state prior to any failure, including complete
restoration of the files, operating system, applications, updates,
settings, configuration, and any other data. It is immediately
available directly from Acronis ([email protected]) partners
(https://www.acronis.com/partners),
and at www.acronis.com,. Prices ranges from $74 (US) to $3171 (US)
per machine and include the first year of Acronis®
Advantage® Premier support and maintenance with each
license.
"Since our announcement, we've seen an explosion of interest in
data deduplication from both Acronis customers and users of other
technologies. Our competitive upgrade program is designed to extend
the same first-class support to new customers as our installed base
has come to expect from Acronis," said Jason Donahue, CEO
Acronis.
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.