Vendor to launch image-based backup and recovery solution to
the cloud to provide redundant backup & recovery data store for
physical & virtual environments
Woburn, Massachusetts, August 26, 2010 - Acronis®, a leading provider of easy-to-use
backup, recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and
cloud environments, is announcing today Acronis Backup &
Recovery® 10 Online. This online backup and recovery
solution offers the advantages of a secondary redundant data store
without a substantial upfront investment.
The product is one of two Acronis cloud computing-based
offerings that will be shown for the first time at the Acronis
booth #1125 at VMworld in San Francisco August 30 - September
2.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online answers the need for cost
effective online redundant data storage for backup and recovery. IT
administrators can use it to recover files, folders or complete
systems.
While on-site local backup software like Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10 provides the benefits of high performance backups and
recoveries in the event of specific infrastructure failure, the new
Acronis solution enables IT organizations to recover quickly and
completely from a secure cloud computing environment in the wake of
a full data center disaster or outage, without building a dedicated
and redundant offsite storage facility. It includes support for
mixed virtual and physical computing environments found in many of
today's businesses.
With this product announcement, the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
family becomes one of the first data protection solutions to offer
agent-less backup for virtual machines (eliminating agents reduces
repetitive administration tasks). Moreover, it:
- has minimal impact on management overhead, since the same Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 management console allows for control of both online and local backups-for both physical and virtual machines.
- recovers individual files or whole system images so organizations have the disaster recovery flexibility they need.
- provides flexible retention periods depending on customer's backup and archiving policies.
- protects backup data through AES-256 data encryption and user authentication.
- offers an initial seeding option for customers with large amounts of data, where the backup is placed on a hard drive and sent to our data center for uploading. Similarly, in the event of a large server outage, Acronis will load a server's backups onto an external hard drive and ship it to the customer as part of its Large Scale Recovery option.
"Small- to mid-sized organizations are eager to adopt recovery
solutions that will provide them with greater availability and
flexibility on their journey across physical, virtual and cloud
environments," says Dave Russell, Vice President, Storage
Technologies and Strategies, Gartner Inc.
"Best practices for disaster recovery typically involve having
multiple layers of protection with both local and offsite redundant
backups," explains Jason Donahue,
CEO at Acronis. "Unfortunately, some organizations don't have
redundant data storage across multiple sites. Our new online
offering, coupled with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, gives
organizations of all sizes the best of both worlds by combining
high interval, high-performance local backups with the added
protection of offsite redundant backups."
Pricing and availability
The service is available in an annual subscription basis and is
licensed per machine:
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online for Workstation 250GB
$ 49.99
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online for Server
1TB $ 499.00
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online for Virtual Machines 2TB
$1199.00
The service will be available for a free 60-day evaluation
starting September 6, 2010 and will be generally available in North
America in early Q4, 2010. General availability in other worldwide
regions will be following later this year. Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10 Online will be available through your local channel
partner. For more information, please visit: https://acronis.com/backup-recovery/online/.
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.