WOBURN, MA, August 17, 2011 -- Acronis, a leading provider of data protection and disaster recovery solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced it has extended its distribution relationship with Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the world's largest technology distributor and supply-chain services provider, to reach partners and customers in South America, Central America and the Caribbean.
Ingram Micro will now sell, market and support Acronis' product suite of data backup and recovery solutions to resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) throughout the regions. Under the new agreement, Ingram Micro channel partners will have access to a wider range of data protection and business continuity programs based on the Acronis product suite.
"We are delighted to add Acronis to Ingram Micro's Advanced Computing Division's portfolio of industry-leading solutions and services," said Eduardo Maurizi, market development manager, Ingram Micro Latin America. "Acronis recognizes the value we bring to the small- to medium-sized business, as well as enterprise markets as demand for, and adoption of, data backup and recovery solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments continue to grow. Acronis' backup, recovery and virtualization solutions offer the features and capabilities these organizations are looking for when it comes to data protection, virtualization and disaster recovery.
"We are pleased to have extended our agreement with the world's largest technology distributor to develop a new sales channel for our market-leading solutions," said Xavier Aguirre, Sales Director of Latin America, at Acronis. "We look forward to working with the Ingram Micro team and leveraging their advanced marketing programs and extensive VAR channel to provide our family of data protection and disaster recovery solutions throughout South America, Central America and the Caribbean."
About Ingram Micro
As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics, technical and financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving more than 150 countries on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com. Follow Ingram Micro on Twitter: http://twitter.com/IngramMicroInc.
About Acronis:
Acronis is a global cyber protection company delivering the only natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection, and infrastructure management platform for managed service providers and IT departments. Acronis solutions are designed to identify, protect, detect, respond, recover and govern IT deployments, ensuring data integrity and business continuity.
A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis has 15 offices worldwide and employees in 60+ countries. Acronis Cyber Platform is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 21,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses. Learn more at www.acronis.com.