Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Named Finalist in 2011 American Technology Awards by TechAmerica Foundation

Woburn, MA, May 24, 2011 Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced that Acronis® Backup & Recovery 10™ has been selected as a finalist in the Server and Storage Technology Category for TechAmerica Foundation's American Technology Awards, "The Termans", which bestows the only national "Best Of" awards that recognize all technology products and services across the technology industry. Nominations for The American Technology Awards, "The Termans", were vetted by industry experts and TechAmerica Foundation leadership. These awards were named after Frederick Terman, who is widely credited as being the father of Silicon Valley.

"We are thrilled to be recognized by the leaders in the technology industry as the best backup and recovery solution in the server and storage technology category, " said Izzy Azeri, senior vice president and general manager, Americas at Acronis. "Being named a finalist in the American Technology Awards is yet another indication of our hard work and dedication to creating a product suite that helps small, medium and large organizations to simply automate backup and disaster recovery processes across physical and virtual environments, in a single solution."

Acronis® Backup & Recovery 10™ offers features, ease-of-use and functional richness beyond the scope of any competing product on the market. The Acronis advantage centers around patented disk imaging and bare metal restore technologies that manage all backup and disaster recovery activities in Windows and Linux environments. After a disaster strikes, Acronis® Backup & Recovery 10™ restores servers, workstations or laptops to the same or different hardware or to virtual machines, providing highly flexible disaster recovery and migration options.

Acronis continues to be a leader in the server and storage technology industry, becoming the first to deliver a product that provides the two elements of file-based backup and system-level recovery in a single, affordable, and easy-to-use solution with Acronis® Backup & Recovery 11™, which will be available in June 2011.

"This year we saw a number of nominations from many companies new to the competition" said Dallas Advisory Partners Founder, and TechAmerica Foundation Chairman, David Sanders. "We congratulate all of this year's finalists, and look forward to celebrating their achievements with them at the Technology and Government Dinner."

Nominations for The Termans are vetted by industry experts and TechAmerica Foundation leadership. Individual Terman Awards will be presented for products and services in the following categories:

The winners will be presented on June 15 at TechAmerica Foundation's ninth annual Technology and Government Dinner, which has been a premier Washington, DC networking event bringing hundreds of industry, congressional and government leaders together at one venue to celebrate the partnership between industry and government. For more information, please visit http://www.techamericafoundation.org/technology-government.

TechAmerica Foundation educates executives, policymakers, opinion leaders on the size, scope, outlook, and impact of the technology industry and on policies that enable and promote technological innovations to advance prosperity, security, and the general welfare. Launched in 1981, the Foundation is a 501c(3) non-profit affiliate of TechAmerica, which is the leading voice and resource for the U.S. technology industry. The Foundation disseminates award-winning industry, policy, and market research covering topics such as U.S. competitiveness in a global economy, innovation in government, and other areas of national interest. It also organizes conferences and seminars to explore pertinent issues with government and industry representatives and to share the Foundation's findings. Learn more about TechAmerica Foundation at www.techamericafoundation.org.