Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Home
brings together popular disk management functions, partition
recovery tools, and boot disk manager in one user-friendly
package
Woburn, Mass., June 15, 2010 - Acronis, a
provider of easy-to-use backup, recovery and security solutions for
physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced the next
generation of its disk management product, Acronis® Disk
Director® 11 Home, designed to help home PC users
organize their hard drives for better performance and data
safety.
Acronis Disk Director 11 Home, the first in a line of new disk
management tools to be launched from Acronis, puts powerful disk
management tools in the hands of home users who can simply and
safely carry out tasks like resizing, splitting and merging
volumes.
The latest version of the product adds new features including:
The latest version of the product adds new features including:
- Dynamic Disk support - enables volumes to be spread across multiple physical disks
- The ability to add or manage mirror volumes, which helps make basic or simple volumes fault-tolerant in just one action by adding a mirror
- Supports very large disks and allows creation of volumes over 2TB
- The capability to clone a disk to a replacement hard disk without having to reinstall operating systems and applications
- New user interface simplifies operations on disks and partitions
- The new version also provides support for Windows 7 and 64-bit
In addition, it allows multiple operating systems to be
installed on a single PC- keeping your system up-to-date with the
latest Windows operating system while having the ability to run
legacy applications on older operating systems.
Acronis Disk Director 11 Home can also be used to expand the
capabilities of Acronis' popular Acronis True Image Home 2010
backup and recovery product - use Acronis Disk Director 11 Home to
create two partitions on a PC, one for data and one for
applications. Acronis True Image Home 2010 then only needs to back
up the changes in the data partition, eliminating the need to back
up the system partition again until you install new applications or
apply new patches.
"This new version enhances many favorites found in previous
releases of Acronis Disk Director while adding new features, like
Windows 7 support, Dynamic Disk support and disk cloning to a
replacement hard drive. Acronis Disk Director 11 Home is not only
more valuable to the advanced user, but because it is easy to use,
it's made these features more accessible to relative novices who
can now take on tasks they once would have left to professionals,"
said Jason Donahue, Acronis CEO.
"The new UI is probably the cleanest and easiest interface to
work with," writes beta tester Hal Abernethy from Salem, VA. "All
options are at hand and self-explanatory… Excellent design
on the interface!"
Acronis Disk Director 11 Home runs on PCs equipped with a
Windows-supported operating system (Windows XP, Windows Vista and
Windows 7), supporting FAT 16, FAT 32, NTFS, Ext₂,
Ext₃, Reiser FS₃ and Linux SWAP file
systems.
Acronis Disk Director 11 Home is priced at $49.99. Corporate
versions of the solution for workstations and servers are scheduled
to follow later this year. For business customers purchasing
Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 after June 15, 2010, Acronis is
offering a free upgrade to Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced
Workstation until the product is released. The same is true for
those purchasing Acronis Disk Director Server 10 after June 15,
2010 can also take advantage of a free upgrade to Acronis Disk
Director 11 Advanced Server until the product is released.
To download, go to https://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/.
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.