Provides SMBs with image-based backup and recovery
solution for physical & virtual environments
Woburn, Mass., (October 5, 2010) -
Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use backup,
recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud
environments, today announced the general availability of Acronis®
Backup & Recovery™ 10 Online. Successfully launched last month
at VMworld, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online is a cutting-edge
online backup and recovery solution that offers the advantages of
an offsite datacenter without a substantial upfront investment.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online answers the need for
customers who do not have multiple datacenters to cost-effectively
back up their backups offsite for protection against primary site
loss, creating a virtual datacenter capability. With the service,
IT administrators can recover files, folders or even complete
images of systems.
A single Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 console seamlessly manages
both local and online backup and recovery efforts regardless of the
data's location. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 provides the benefits
of local backups and recoveries in the event of infrastructure
failure or other occurrences such as accidently deleted files or
virus attack. The new Acronis solution provides that extra level of
protection, enabling organizations to recover quickly and
completely from a secure cloud computing environment in the wake of
a full-scale outage, without requiring a dedicated offsite storage
facility and its associated costs.
The service includes support for mixed virtual and physical
computing environments found in many of today's businesses. One of
the first data protection solutions to offer online agent-less
backup for virtual machines, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online
eliminates agents, which reduces repetitive administration tasks,
and helps to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
Additionally, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online:
- 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 for complete security.
- Offers an initial seeding option for customers with large amounts of data, where the backup is placed on a hard drive and sent to Acronis' 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.
"With its latest announcement Acronis has taken a clear
initiative in the SMB market by providing enterprise-class cloud
based backup and recovery at an affordable price point for small to
medium sized businesses. This will accelerate the evolution of
cloud based backup and recovery, and the extra protection it
offers, into a mainstream technique," says Carla
Arend, Program Manager, European Infrastructure Software at
IDC.
"Backup and recovery pivots on trust and reliability. These key
values become even more important when businesses place essential
data in the cloud," explains Jason Donahue,
CEO at Acronis. "This product has been developed solely by Acronis
and is a natural extension to our on-premise solution. With almost
a decade of experience in providing organically grown DR solutions
to SMBs, and more than five million installations worldwide,
Acronis is the disaster recovery provider of choice for small- and
medium-size businesses."
Pricing and availability
The service is available on 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
$1,199.00
The service is available for a free 60-day evaluation, and will
be available for purchase through your local channel partner or
online beginning October 12. 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.